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2026-2027 PhD Job Market Candidates

Thank you for visiting the Department of Economics placement page. Its purpose is to give interested institutions a preview of our PhD candidates who are available for employment.

Economics PhD alumni who are re-entering the job market and interested in using the Departmental job market services should contact Mark Patterson for more information.

Current Job Market Candidates

Placement Officer

Daniel Martin

Associate Professor of Economics

Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics

danielmartin@ucsb.edu

Candidate	Research Areas	Advisor(s)	Job Market Paper
Xander (Alexander) Abajian PhD Alumnus	Climate Macroeconomics, Environmental and Resource Economics	Javier Birchenall	"Savings and Migration in a Warming World"
Mauricio Collado EES PhD Candidate North Hall 2043	Environmental and Resource Economics, Regulation, Applied Microeconomics Theory	Christopher Costello	"Quota Baskets Versus Fish Baskets in Fisheries"
Juan Nicolas Herrera La Rotta PhD Candidate North Hall 2043	Public Economics, Urban Economics, Labor Economics	Alisa Tazhitdinova	"Value-Added Tax Incidence in Housing Markets"
Risa Lewis EES PhD Candidate Bren Hall 3021	Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics	Christopher Costello	"Willingness to Pay to Avoid the Emotional Well-being Impact of Climate Change Information"
Yihong Liu PhD Candidate North Hall 2043	Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics	Douglas Steigerwald	"Matched Triple-Differences: A Framework for Covariate Adjustment"
Camila Paleo PhD Candidate North Hall 2043	Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics, Development Economics	Heather Royer	"Temporary Jobs, Lasting Credit? Evidence from Uruguay's Public Works Program"
Anna Costola Pede EES PhD Candidate North Hall 2039	Environmental Economics	Christopher Costello	"Fire and Punishment: Enforcement incentives and fire use in the Brazilian Amazon"
Donovan Rasamoelison PhD Candidate North Hall 2047	Labor Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics	Peter Kuhn	"Screening and Compliance Documentation as Complements? Effects on Fraud and Administrative Burden"
Kajari Saha PhD Candidate North Hall 2047	Development Economics, Gender, Applied Microeconomics	Shelly Lundberg	"Weather Shocks, Credit Access and Intimate Partner Violence in India"
Reetika Sindhi PhD Candidate North Hall 2047	Family Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Crime and Conflict, Development Economics	Kelly Bedard	"The Long Shadow of Communal Violence: Childhood Exposure and Later-Life Mental Health"
Matías Strehl Pessina PhD Candidate North Hall 2043	Public Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy	Alisa Tazhitdinova, Youssef Benzarti	“Do Targeted Tax Breaks Make Value-Added Taxes Less Regressive?”