Graduate Job Candidates

Placement Director

Hiroki Nishimura
Phone: (951) 827-4975
Email: hiroki.nishimura@ucr.edu

Placement Coordinator

Gary Kuzas
Phone: (951) 827-1474
Email: gary.kuzas@ucr.edu

Ph.D. Candidates 2019-2020

Deepshikha Batheja

Curriculum Vitae | Website

Paper: “Gender Peer Effects in the Workplace: A Field Experiment in Indian Call Centers”

References: Anil Deolalikar (Co-Chair), Sarojini Hirshleifer (Co-Chair), Joseph Cummins

Major Fields: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Field Experiments, Economics of Gender, Economics of Organization

Christian Gunadi

Curriculum Vitae | Website

Paper: “Does Immigrant Legalization Affect Crime? Evidence from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in the United States”

References: Joseph Cummins (Chair), Michael Bates, Steven Helfand

Major Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics, Immigration Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Seolah Kim

Curriculum Vitae | Website

Paper: “A Consistent Nonparametric Test for Endogeneity”

References: Aman Ullah (Chair), Tae-Hwy Lee, Michael Bates, Ruoyao Shi

Major Fields: Econometrics, Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics

Ali Mehrabani

Curriculum Vitae | Website

Paper: “The Large-Sample, Small Disturbance, and Asymptotic Conditions for Dominance of an Efficient Shrinkage in Seemingly Unrelated Regression Equations”

References: Aman Ullah (Chair), Tae-Hwy Lee, Matthew D. Lang, Joab N. Corey

Major Fields: Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Empirical Microeconomics, Financial Econometrics, and Big data

Shahnaz Parsaein

Curriculum Vitae | Website

Paper: “Optimal Forecast under Structural Breaks with Application to Equity Premium”

References: Aman Ullah (Co-Chair), Tae-Hwy Lee (Co-Chair), Bree Lang, Joab N. Corey

Major Fields: Econometrics, Applied Econometrics, Empirical Macroeconomics, Financial Econometrics, Big Data

Yoon Jae Ro

Curriculum Vitae | Website

Paper: “The Effects of Teacher Performance Measures on Student Achievement”

References: Michael Bates (Co-Chair), Anil Deolalikar (Co-Chair), Ozkan Eren, Matthew Lang

Major Fields: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics

Matthew Taylor

Curriculum Vitae | Website

Paper: “The Farm Size – Productivity Relationship in the Wake of Market Reform: an Analysis of Mexican Family Farms”

References: Steven Helfand (Chair), Anil Deolalikar, Joseph Cummins

Major Fields: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, US Economic History, and Political Economy

Ran Wang

Curriculum Vitae

Paper: “IDENTIFYING HETEROGENEOUS AND CONFOUNDING EFFECT VIA L1-REGULARIZED SOFT DECISION TREE”

References: Tae-Hwy Lee (Co-Chair), Aman Ullah (Co-Chair), Ruoyao Shi

Major Fields: Causal Inference, Econometrics, Machine Learning, Time Series Analysis, Data Mining

Peng Zhao

Website

Paper: “The Natural Rate of Structure Depreciation: Decoupling Capital Gains and Maintenance Improvement from Property Value Variation”

References: Richard Arnott (Chair), Ozkan Eren, Aman Ullah

Major Fields: Microeconomics, Urban Economics, Regional Economics, Real Estate Economics, Housing Economics, Computational Economics, Applied Econometrics