Graduate Job Candidates

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Sarojini Hirshleifer
Phone: (951) 827-1574
Email: sarojini.hirshleifer@ucr.edu

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

Ph.D. Candidates 2023-2024

Da Gong

Da Gong

Website

Paper:  Formation and Evolution of Beliefs: Famine Experience and Trust in Neighbors

References:

  • Joseph R. Cummins (Chair)
  • Yang Xie
  • Ugo Antonio Troiano
  • Kevin M. Esterling

Fields:  Development Economics, Political Economy, Culture and Institutions, Labor Economics, Applied Machine Learning

Jingyan Guo

Jingyan Guo

Website

Paper: Sleep and Fatal Vehicle Crashes: Evidence from Sunset Time in the United States

References:

  • Joseph Cummins (Chair)
  • Anil B Deolalikar
  • Michael Bates
  • Matthew D Lang

Fields: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Development Economics

Yong Ju Lee

Yong Ju Lee

Website

Paper:  Nonparametric estimation of structural equation under conditional heteroscedasticity

References:

  • Aman Ullah(Chair)
  • Tae-Hwy Lee
  • Subir Ghosh
  • Shujie Ma

Fields:  Nonparametric Econometrics, Applied Econometrics

Dayang Li

Dayang Li

Website

Paper:  Additive Representation under Idempotent Attention

References:

  • Hiroki Nishimura (Chair)
  • Siyang Xiong
  • Urmee Khan

Fields:  Microeconomic Theory, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics

Pedro Isaac Chavez Lopez

Pedro Isaac Chavez Lopez

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Paper: Quantile-Covariance Three-Pass Regression Filter: Supervised Forecasting for Conditional Quantiles

References:

  • Tae-Hwy Lee (Chair)
  • Gloria Gonzalez-Rivera
  • Ozkan Eren
  • Aman Ullah

Fields: Econometrics, Machine Learning, Macroeconomics, Finance

Xinchan Lu

Xinchan Lu

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Paper:   Asset Liquidity, Private Information Acquisition, and Monetary Policy

References:

  • Jang-Ting Guo (co-chair
  • Victor Ortego-Marti (co-chair)
  • Guillaume Rocheteau (UCI)
  • Bree Lang

Fields:  Macroeconomics

Anh Tran

Anh Tran

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Paper:   Predicting Discrete Outcomes Using Many Highly Correlated Predictors

References:

  • Tae-Hwy Lee (Chair)
  • Gloria González-Rivera
  • Weixin Yao
  • Aman Ullah

Fields:  Econometrics, Machine Learning, Macroeconomics, Finance

Andong Yan

Andong Yan

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Paper:   Crisis Control in Top-down Bureaucracy: Evidence from China’s Zero-Covid Policy

References:

  • Urmee Khan
  • Yang Xie
  • Joseph Cummins

Fields:  Political Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics