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 2018-2019
Deepshikha Batheja
Paper: not availabe yet
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
Paper: “An Inquiry on the Impact of Highly-skilled STEM Immigration on the U.S. Economy”
References (*Advisor): Joseph Cummins*, Michael Bates, Steven Helfand
Major Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics, Immigration Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Seolah Kim
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
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
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
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
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
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
Paper: “Housing Structure Depreciation”
References: Richard Arnott (Chair), Ozkan Eren, Aman Ullah
Major Fields: Microeconomics, Urban Economics, Regional Economics, Real Estate Economics, Housing Economics, Computational Economics, Applied Econometrics