For more information about our candidates, please contact our placement co-director professors Keaton Miller and Mark Colas, or our graduate coordinator.

2022-2023 PhD Candidates

Ethan Holdahl

Job Market Paper: Testing the Efficacy of Stepping Stone Equilibria in Coordination Games

Fields: Game Theory, Experimental, and Environmental Economics

Committee: Jiabin Wu (chair), Anne van den Nouweland, Van Kolpin, and Mikhail Myagkov (Political Science)

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Hanyuan “Harrison” Huang

Job Market Paper: Economic Development, Education and Ethnicity Choice in China 

Fields: Game Theory, Cultural Economics, Social Structures and Network Theory 

Committee: Jiabin Wu (chair), Benjamin Hansen, Jonathan Davis, and Thanh Nguyen (CIS) 

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Promise Kamanga

Job Market Paper: Diplomatic Relations and Trade: The Effect of Switching Ties from Taiwan to China

Fields: International Trade, Macroeconomics, Development

Committee: Anca Cristea (Co-Chair), Bruce Blonigen (Co-Chair), Woan Foong Wong, Yeling Tan (Political Science)

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Robert McDonough

Job Market Paper: The Effect of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime

Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Labor, Education, and Crime

Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Mark Colas, Edward Rubin and Chris Sinclair (Mathematics)

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SM Shihab Siddiqui

Job Market Paper: The Impact of Ready-Made Garments on Female Labor Force Participation, Fertility, and Human Capital Accumulation Among Bangladeshi Women

Fields: Applied Econometrics, Development, Macroeconomics and Demography

Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (Co-chair), Alfredo Burlando (Co-chair), Anca Cristea, Ben Yang (Operations and Business Analytics)

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Garrett Stanford

Job Market Paper: “I’d like to make a complaint against an officer”: Field experiment evidence of police discrimination based on citizen race, ethnicity, and gender

Fields: Environmental, Criminal Justice, Experimental

Committee: Edward Rubin (chair), Trudy Ann Cameron, Jonathan M. Davis, and Bryce Newell (Journalism and Communication)

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Shan “Evie” Zhang

Job Market Paper: Rethinking Recycling? The Effect of China’s Recyclable Waste Import Ban on Pollution Relocation in the U.S.

Fields: Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics

Committee: Eric Zou (Chair), Trudy Ann Cameron, Grant McDermott, Kory Russel (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies)

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2021-22 PhD Placements

Youssef Ait Benasser

• Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Reed College
• Dissertation: Trade Policy Irregularities: Reversals, Uncertainty, and Diversion
• Fields: International Economics, Applied Econometrics, Financial Economics
• Committee: Anca Cristea (chair), Jeremy Piger, Bruce Blonigen, Yeling Tan (Political Science)

Cory Briar

• Initial Placement: Research Associate II, Washington State Institute for Public Policy
• Dissertation: Essays on Gentrification
• Fields: Urban Economics, Housing, Public Policy
• Committee: Mark Colas (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Keaton Miller, James Buckley (Historic Preservation)

Saurabh Gupta

• Initial Placement: Tax Economist, Oregon Department of Revenue’s Research Section
• Dissertation: Essays on India’s Economic Development
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Anca Cristea, Alfredo Burlando, Nagesh Murthy (Business)

Sichao Jiang

• Initial Placement: Pricing Manager, T-Mobile
• Dissertation: Essays on Industrial Organization and Health Economics
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory
• Committee: Keaton Miller (co-chair), Wes Wilson (co-chair), Edward Rubin, Nagesh Murthy (Business)

Zachary Kiefer

• Initial Placement: Financial Economist Fellow, Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
• Dissertation: Three Essays on International Internet Communication Costs: Measurement and Implications for International Economic Flows
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Growth/Development
• Committee: Anca Cristea (co-chair), Woan Foong Wong (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen, Reza Rejaie (Computer and Information Science)

Connor Lennon

• Initial Placement: Data Scientist/Econometrician with Bayer Pharmaceutical, Colaberry
• Dissertation: Essays in Causal Machine Learning and Environmental Economics
• Fields: Microeconometrics, Machine Learning, Environmental
• Committee: Glen Waddell (co-chair), Edward Rubin (co-chair), Grant McDermott, Humphrey Shi (Computer and Information Science)

Joe Mitchell-Nelson

• Initial Placement: Research Analyst, Oregon Health Authority
• Dissertation: Essays on Development and Health Economics
• Fields: Applied econometrics, Growth/Development
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Alfredo Burlando, Shankha Chakraborty, Richard York (Sociology)

John Morehouse

• Initial Placement: Senior Quantitative Analyst, Freddie Mac
• Dissertation: Environmental Policy Across (Terrestrial) Space
• Fields: Labor and Environmental
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), Mark Colas (co-chair), Keaton Miller, Edward Rubin, Grant Jacobsen (PPPM)

Jenni Putz

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Eastern Michigan University
• Dissertation: Essays in Education Economics
• Fields: Education, Applied Microeconomics, Environmental
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Jonathan Davis, Edward Rubin, David Liebowitz (Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership)

Kyle Raze

• Initial Placement: Economist, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Dissertation: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
• Fields: Applied microeconometrics, labor economics, public economics
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Michael Kuhn, Jonathan Davis, David Liebowitz (Education)

Melissa Wilson

• Initial Placement: Economist in the Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Housing Finance Agency
• Dissertation: Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Labor
• Committee: Ben Hansen (chair), Jonathan Davis, Eric Zou, Kristen Bell (Law)

2020-21 PhD Placements

Luciana Etcheverry

• Initial Placement: Gender and Diversity Specialist in the Gender and Diversity Inclusion Division, Inter-American Development Bank
• Dissertation: Essays on Development and Labor Economics
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Development, and Labor Economics
• Committee: Alfredo Burlando (Chair), Glen Waddell, Michael Kuhn, and Kristin Yarris (International Studies)

Brett Garcia

• Initial Placement: Associate, Positive Competition, Brussels, Belgium
• Dissertation: Essays in Transport Economics
• Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wesley Wilson (chair), Keaton Miller, Jeremy Piger, Anne Parmigiani (Management)

Kendall Houghton

• Initial Placement: Economist, Demographic Research Area of the Center for Economics Studies, US Census Bureau
• Dissertation: Essays in Public and Labor Economics
• Fields: Public and labor economics
• Committee: Ben Hansen (co-chair), Caroline Weber (co-chair), Grant McDermott, Laura Leete (School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management)

Amna Javed

• Initial Placement: Gender Research Specialist, South Asia Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
• Dissertation: Three Essays on Gender in South Asia
• Fields: Applied econometrics, Development economics
• Committee: Alfredo Burlando (chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Jiabin Wu, Lamia Karim (Anthropology)

Michael Jerman

• Initial Placement: Instructor of Economics, Oregon State University
• Dissertation: Empirical Methods for Low-Quality Data
• Fields: Environmental
• Committee: Alfredo Burlando (co-chair), Trudy Cameron (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Dejing Dou (Computer and Information Science)

Mary Kopriva

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Health Care Economics, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage
• Dissertation: Essays in Labor and Health
• Fields: Labor, Environmental
• Committee: Ben Hansen (co-chair), Edward Rubin (co-chair), Jonathan Davis, Alfredo Burlando, Clare Evans (Sociology)

Chandler Lester

• Initial Placement: Associate Analyst, Congressional Budget Office
• Dissertation: Adaptive Learning in Continuous-Time: Techniques and Theory
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Time-Series Econometrics, Learning
• Committee: Bruce McGough (chair), George Evans, David Evans, Peter Ralph (Mathematics & Biology)

Alex Li

• Initial Placement: Quantitative Analyst, State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Madison, Wisconsin
• Dissertation: Essays on Agent Heterogeneity and Adaptive Learning
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Bruce McGough (co-chair), David Evans, and Robert Ready (Finance)

Xiang “Ivy” Li

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Butler University
• Dissertation: Essays on High-Frequency Macroeconomic Monitoring
• Job Market Paper: Nowcasting Business Cycle Phases with High and Mixed Frequency Data
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Applied econometrics
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (chair), George Evans, David Evans, Thien Huu Nguyen (Computer Science)

Thomas Stockwell

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Sykes College of Business, University of Tampa
• Dissertation: Essays on the Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy
• Fields: Macroecomonics, Time-Series Econometrics
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (chair), George Evans, David Evans, Youchang Wu (Finance)

2019-2020 PhD Placements

Curtis Dlouhy

• Initial Placement: Senior Economist, Oregon Public Utilities Commission
• Dissertation: Three Essays in Fossil Fuel Energy Choice
• Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Keaton Miller, Van Kolpin, Rob Ready (Finance)

Hoa Duong

• Dissertation: Labor and Financial Markets Frictions in Developing Economies
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Development, International Economics
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (Co-chair), Anca D. Cristea (Co-chair), Bruce A. Blonigen, Jiao Zhang (Behavioral Sciences)

Ayesha Khalid

• Initial Placement: Economist 4, Oregon Employment Department (Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Division)
• Dissertation: Human Capital Accumulation In A Developing-Country Context: Gender Disparities, Concurrent and Lagged Effects of Air Pollution And Climate Change
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Environmental, and Development Economics
• Committee: Trudy A. Cameron (Chair), Alfredo Burlando, Eric Zou, Nicole Ngo (Public Policy)

Maxwell Mindock

• Initial Placement: Healthcare Economist at the Lewin Group
• Dissertation: Essays on the Judiciary
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Public, Labor
• Committee: Glen Waddell (Chair), Michael Kuhn, Edward Rubin, and Kristen Bell (Law)

Anna Miromanova

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and International Business at Sam Houston State University
• Dissertation: Essays in International Trade and Russian Trade Policy
• Fields: International Trade, Development, and Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Anca Cristea (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Woan Foong Wong, and Mikhail Myagkov (Political Science)

Toby Sytsma

• Initial Placement: Associate Economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
• Dissertation: Essays on International Trade
• Fields: International Economics, Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Wesley Wilson (co-chair), Anca Cristea, Michael Russo (Management)

2018-19 PhD Placements

Nathan Biemiller

• Initial Placement: Food & Drug Administration
• Dissertation: Essays in Behavioral Economics
• Fields: Behavioral, Applied Econometrics, Labor
• Committee: Mike Kuhn (Chair), Ben Hansen, Jiabin Wu, Aaron Gullickson (Sociology)

Ben Brennan

• Initial Placement: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (lecturer)
• Dissertation: Essays on Nominal GDP Targeting
• Fields: Macro-economics, Monetary Policy, Adaptive Learning
• Committee: Bruce McGough (Chair), George Evans, Mark Thoma, Rob Ready (Finance)

Christian Imboden

• Initial Placement: Georgia State University (visiting assistant professor)
• Dissertation: Essays in Public Finance
• Fields: Public, Labor
• Committee: Caroline Weber (co-chair), Van Kolpin (co-chair), Jeremy Piger, David Guenther (Accounting)

Drew McNichols

• Initial Placement: San Diego State/UC San Diego (postdoc)
• Dissertation: Essays in Labor Economics
• Fields: Applied Micro-econometrics, Labor, Health, and Public
• Committee: Ben Hansen (Chair), Glen Waddell, Mike Kuhn, Aaron Gullickson (Sociology)

Simeon Minard

• Initial Placement: Amazon
• Dissertation: Essays on Synthetic Control and Causal Inference
• Fields: Applied Econometrics and Labor Economics
• Committee: Glen Waddell (Chair), Jeremy Piger, Benjamin Hansen, David Wagner (Management)

Ryan Walch

• Initial Placement: University of Alberta, Canada (postdoc)
• Dissertation: Essays on the Economics of Carbon Pricing
• Fields: Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (Chair), Ben Hansen, Grant McDermott, Ronald Mitchell (Political Science)

Will Wheeler

• Initial Placement: St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI (assistant professor)
• Dissertation: Essays in Nonmarket Valuation
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (Chair), Wesley Wilson, Grant McDermott, Grant Jacobsen (Planning, Public Policy, and Management)

 Kyle Wilson

• Initial Placement: Duke University, Durham, NC (visiting assistant professor)
• Dissertation: Economic Effects of Water Scarcity
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Environmental, Development
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (Chair), Alfredo Burlando, Edward Rubin, Kory Russel (Environmental Studies)

Nick Wood

• Initial Placement: Army Corps of Engineers
• Dissertation: Essays in Industrial Organization
• Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wesley Wilson (Chair), Keaton Miller, Van Kolpin, Joshua Gordon (Business)

2017-2018 PhD Placements

Nate Adams

• Initial Placement: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC
• Dissertation: Essays in Risk Taking, Belief Formation, and Self-Deception
• Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Labor, Experimental, Behavioral
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Mike Kuhn, William Harbaugh, and William Terry (Political Science)

Jean Falconer

• Initial Placement: Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
• Dissertation: Essays on Fiscal Policy
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (chair), Mark Thoma, Bruce McGough, and David Guenther (Accounting)

Erin Hunt

• Initial Placement: Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• Dissertation: Macroeconomic Consequences of Social Security Policy Uncertainty
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Behavioral Economics
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Bruce McGough, Shankha Chakraborty, and Brandon Julio (Finance)

Nigel McClung

• Initial Placement: Bank of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
• Dissertation: Essays in Regime Switching, Policy Interactions, and Adaptive Learning
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary, Learning
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Bruce McGough (co-chair), Jeremy Piger, and Wenbo Wu (Operations and Business Analytics)

Rosie Mueller

• Initial Placement: Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
• Dissertation: Essays in Environmental Economics
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Environmental, and Health
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), Caroline Weber (Co-chair), Glen Waddell, and Grant Jacobsen (Planning, Public Policy, and Management)

Tristan Nighswander

• Initial Placement: Reed College, Portland, OR
• Dissertation: Behavioral Biases in General Equilibrium: Implications for Wealth Inequality and Human Capital
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Behavioral, Wealth Inequality, Human Capital
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Mike Kuhn, David Evans, and Laura Leete (Planning, Public Policy, and Management)

Amani Rashid

• Initial Placement: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
• Dissertation: Essays in Child Welfare
• Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Labor, Health, and Public
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Caroline Weber, Ben Hansen, and Jeff Todahl (Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department)

2016-2017 PhD Placements

Erica Birk

• Initial Placement: Associate, Analysis Group, Menlo Park, CA
• Dissertation: Essays in Health and Labor
• Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Labor, Health, and Experimental
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Ben Hansen, Michael Kuhn, and Aaron Gullickson (Sociology)

Brian Dombeck

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
• Dissertation: The Effects of News Shocks and Bounded Rationality on Macroeconomic Volatility
• Fields: Applied Structural Macroeconomics, Bounded Rationality, Information Choice
• Committee: Bruce McGough (co-chair), George Evans (co-chair), Jeremy Piger, and Arafaat Valiani (History)

Felix Friedt

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
• Dissertation: International Trade and Transportation
• Fields: International Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Wes Wilson (co-chair), Anca Cristea, Jeremy Piger, and Nagesh Murthy (Department of Operations and Business Analytics)

Taylor McKenzie

• Initial Placement: Cybersecurity Researcher, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM
• Dissertation: Railroads, Regulation, Efficiency, and Competition
• Fields: Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Van Kolpin, Jeremy Piger, Keaton Miller, and Diane Del Guercio (Finance)

Tuan Nguyen

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Central College, Pella, IA
• Dissertation: Three Essays in Public Economics
• Fields: Public, Crime, and Health
• Committee: Ben Hansen (chair), Glen Waddell, Caroline Weber, and Craig Parsons (Political Science)

Rebekah Selby

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Emporia State University, Emporia KS
• Dissertation: Essays on Health and Development Economics
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Economic Growth and Development
• Committee: Ben Hansen (chair), Alfredo Burlando, Van Kolpin, and Ryan Light (Sociology)

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2015-2016 PhD Placements

Adam Check

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN
• Dissertation: Regime Switching and the Monetary Economy
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (chair), Bruce McGough, George Evans, Craig Rolling (Business)

Colin Corbett

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Bradley University, Peoria IL
• Dissertation: Preferences for Effort and Its Applications
• Fields: Experimental, Labor, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: William Harbaugh (chair), Van Kolpin, Michael Kuhn, Sanjay Srivastava (Psychology)

Chad Fulton

• Initial Placement: Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington D.C.
• Dissertation: Sectoral Prices and Price-Setting
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Bruce McGough (co-chair), Jeremy Piger, Stephen McKeon (Finance)

Sacha Gelfer

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Bentley University, Waltham MA
• Dissertation: Incorporating High Dimensional Data Vectors into Structural Macroeconomic Models
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce McGough (co-chair), Jeremy Piger (co-chair), George Evans, Christopher Bone (Geography)

Sonja Kolstoe

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Salisbury University, Salisbury MD
• Dissertation: Essays on the Recreational Value of Avian Biodiversity
• Fields: Environmental, Public, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Ralph Mastromonaco, Wes Wilson, Scott Bridgham (Biology), Dan Gleason

Michael Thacker

• Initial Placement: Economist, Laurits R. Christensen Associates, Inc., Madison WI
• Dissertation: Essays on the Economics of Telephones and Evolving Technologies
• Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Jeremy Piger, Van Kolpin, Michael Russo (Management)

John Voorheis

• Initial Placement: Economist, US Census Bureau, Suitland MD
• Dissertation: Essays on Income and Environmental Inequality
• Fields: Public, Environmental, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Peter Lambert, Caroline Weber, Ronald Mitchell (Political Science)

Joe Wyer

• Initial Placement: Economist, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, Washington D.C.
• Dissertation: Essays On Choice with Spatial Heterogeneity
• Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Anne van den Nouweland, Trudy Ann Cameron, Rebecca Lewis (PPPM)

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2014-2015 PhD Placements

Gulcan Cil

• Initial Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Affiliate, US Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis OR
• Dissertation: Effects of Behavioral and Environmental Factors on Infant Health
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Environmental, and Health
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Ben Hansen, Ralph Mastromonaco

Ben Fitch-Fleischmann

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH
• Dissertation: Essays on Economic Development and Climate Change
• Fields: Development, Environmental, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), Glen Waddell (co-chair), Alfredo Burlando

Logan Lee

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Grinnell College, Grinnell IA
• Dissertation: Essays in Labor Economics
• Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Labor, Health, and Trade
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Ben Hansen, Anca Cristea

Jason Query

• Initial Placement: Associate at PwC, Irvine CA
• Dissertation: The Impact of Transportation Costs and Trade Barriers on International Trade Flows
• Fields: International Trade, Public Economics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Wes Wilson (co-chair), Anca Cristea

Allison Roehling

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and Management, DePauw University, Greencastle IN
• Dissertation: Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Currency Invoicing, and International Trade
• Fields: International Trade, Macroeconomics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Nicholas Sly, Jeremy Piger

Jonathan Thompson

• Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, Salem OR
• Dissertation: Culture and Economic Growth
• Fields: Econometrics, Development and Growth
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Chris Ellis, Ben Hansen, David Levin (Mathematics)

Matthew Wilson

• Initial Placement: Temporary Assistant Professor of Economics, Truman State University, Kirksville MO
• Dissertation: Monetary Sunspots, Preference Discovery Costs, and the Equity Premium
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Behavioral Economics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Bruce McGough (co-chair), William Harbaugh, Ulrich Mayr (Psychology)

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 2013-2014 PhD Placements

Jeffrey Allen

• Initial placement: Bentley University, South Waltham, MA
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth & Development, International
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), George Evans, Bruce McGough

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2012-2013 PhD Placements

Harold Cuffe

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Victoria University
• Dissertation: Three Essays in Labor Economics
• Fields: Labor, Health, Education, Crime
• Committee: Glen Waddell (co-chair), Jason Lindo (co-chair), Benjamin Hansen

Christopher Gibbs

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of New South Wales
• Dissertation: Heterogeneous Expectations, Forecast Combination, and Economic Dynamics
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Time-Series Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Bruce McGough, Jeremy Piger

Lance Kaufmann

• Initial placement: Oregon Public Utility Commission
• Dissertation: Three Essays on Governance Structure in the Hospital Industry
• Fields: Industrial Organization and Health
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Van Kolpin, Benjamin Hansen

Isaac Swensen

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Montana State University
• Dissertation: Essays on the Economics of Health and Education
• Fields: Labor, Health, Education, Public
• Committee: Glen Waddell (co-chair), Jason Lindo (co-chair), Benjamin Hansen

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2011-2012 PhD Placements

Thomas Groll

• Initial placement: Lecturer, Columbia University
• Dissertation: The Economics of Commercial Lobbying
• Fields: Public Economics, Political Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Chris Ellis (chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Nicholas Sly

Donghyun (Don) Lee

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Colby College
• Dissertation: Essays on Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology, and Frictional Costs
• Fields: International trade, Applied Econometrics, and Macroeconomics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Nick Sly, Wes Wilson

Hui-Hsuan (Sandy) Tang

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, National Taipei University
• Dissertation: Essays on the Economics of Higher Education
• Fields: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair), Glen Waddell (co-Chair), Benjamin Hansen

Matthew P. Taylor

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Montana
• Dissertation: Risk Aversion and Information Acquisition Across Real and Hypothetical Settings
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), William Harbaugh (co-chair), Van W. Kolpin

Brian Vander Naald

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Southeast
• Dissertation: Essays in Environmental and Public Economics
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Jason Lindo, Ben Hansen

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2010-2011 PhD Placements

John Kandrac

• Initial placement: Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Dissertation: Essays on the Role of Financial Intermediaries in the Transmission of Monetary Policy
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Mark Thoma (chair), Jeremy Piger, Shankha Chakraborty

Mark Ryan

• Initial Placement: Central Intelligence Agency
• Current Position: Economist, Mark G. Anderson Consultants, Inc. (MGAC)
• Dissertation: A Satisficing Model of Consumer Behavior
• Committee: Van Kolpin (chair), Chris Ellis, Jeremy Piger

Sean Severe

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Drake University
• Dissertation: Monetary Policy Issues Arising from Bank Concentration
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Growth and Development, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Mark Thoma (co-chair), Wes Wilson (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty

Toni Sipic

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Central Washington University
• Dissertation: Political Economy of Environmental Disasters and Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, and Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Wesley Wilson, Benjamin Hansen

Peter Williams

• Initial placement: Economist, Bonneville Power Administration
• Dissertation: Structural Change and Economic Development
• Fields: Growth and Development, macroeconomics, trade
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Chris Ellis

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2009-2010 PhD Placements

Anna-Maria Aksan

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Fairfield University
• Dissertation: Three Essays in Disease and Economic Development
• Fields:macroeconomics, economic development, and international economics
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Peter Lambert

Eric Duquette

• Initial placement: Economist, USDA Economic Research Service
• Dissertation: Choice Difficulty and Subjective Risk Perceptions in Environmental Economics
• Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), William Harbaugh, Jason Lindo

Silke Friedrich

• Initial placement: Economist, IFO Institute
• Dissertation: Essays on Political Economy Issues
• Fields: Public Economics, International Economics
• Committee: Chris Ellis (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Glen Waddell

Eric Gaus

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Ursinus College
• Dissertation: Issues in Macroeconomic Models with Learning
• Fields: international economics, macroeconomics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Jeremy Piger (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty

Andrea Giusto

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
• Dissertation: Heterogeneity Issues in Macroeconomics
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Monetary Economics, International Economics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair), Van Kolpin

Chang Yong Kim

• Initial placement: Adjunct Professor, University of Oregon
• Dissertation: The Exchange Rate Effects on the Different Types of Foreign Direct Investments
• Fields: Macroeconomics, International Economics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Jeremy Piger, Steve Haynes, Neviana Petkova

Nick Muller

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Blackburn College
• Dissertation: Biblical Contracts
• Fields: Economics of religion
• Committee: Joe Stone (chair), Jo Anna Gray, Larry Singell

Peter Stiffler

• Initial placement: Economist, Bonneville Power Administration
• Dissertation: Health Economics: Policy Outcomes, Individual Choice, and Adolescent Behavior
• Fields: Labor and Environmental Economics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), Glen Waddell (co-chair), Anne van den Nouweland

David Wozniak

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University
• Dissertation: Essays in Experimental Economics: Examining the Effects of Ambiguity and Competition
• Fields: experimental economics, microeconomics, econometrics, and labor economics
• Committee: William Harbaugh (chair), Trudy Ann Cameron, Van Koplin

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2008-2009 PhD Placements

Matthew Cole

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, UC-Dublin
• Dissertation: Strategic Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Firms
• Fields: International Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Ron Davies (co-chair), Peter Lambert

Ryan Herzog

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
• Dissertation: Testing Savings and Investment Rates to Understand Capital Mobility and Current Account Dynamics
• Fields: time-series and panel data econometrics, international economics, macroeconomics, and labor economics
• Committee: Nicolas Magud (chair), Stephen Haynes, Jeremy Piger

Erica Johnson

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
• Dissertation: Willingness to Pay for Health Risk Reductions: The Importance of Scenario Adjustment, Household Structure, and Type of Disease
• Fields: Health
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair)

Christina Steiger

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
• Dissertation: Three Essays on Adaptive Learning, Institutions and Multiple Equilibria
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Growth and Development, and Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair), Jeremy Piger

Annie Voy

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
• Dissertation: Globalization and Child Labor
• Fields: international trade, applied econometrics, labor economics, industrial organization and experimental economics
• Committee: Ron Davies (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen

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2007-2008 PhD Placements

Beiliei Cai

• Dissertation: Essays in Health and Environmental Economics: Challenges in The Empirical Analysis of Micro-Level Economic Survey Data
• Fields: environmental economics, health economics, applied microeconomics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Robin McKnight, William Harbaugh

William Galose

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY Fredonia
• Dissertation: Three Empirical Essays Regarding The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Supplemental Environmental Projects Policy
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Robin McKnight, Wes Wilson

Kelii Haraguchi

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Willamette University
• Dissertation: Three Essays on Mexican Migration to the United States
• Fields: applied econometrics, labor economics, and international economics
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Larry Singell, Joe Stone

Nino Sitchinava

• Initial placement: Analysis Group
• Dissertation Title: Trends in Trade in Intermediate and Finished Goods, Their Determinants and Effects
• Fields: Microeconomics, Econometrics, International Trade, Industrial Organization
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen, (co-chair), Ronald Davies (co-chair), Glen Waddell

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2006-2007 Placements

Fahad Alturki

• Initial placement: Monetary Agency, Saudi Arabia
• Dissertation Title: Essays on Optimal Currency Areas
• Committee: Nicolas Magud (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen (co-chair)

Dan Burghart

• Initial placement: Post-doc in Paul Glimcher’s Neuroecon lab, New York University
• Dissertation Title: Demand for Public Goods
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), William Harbaugh (co-chair), Glen Waddell

Chong-Uk Kim

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University
• Fields: International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Mark Thoma (co-chair)

Helen Naughton

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
• Fields: International and Environmental
• Committee: Ron Davies (co-chair), Glen Waddell (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen

Paul Shea

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Time-Series Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (chair)

Hong Zhuang

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Indiana – South Bend
• Fields: International economics, Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair)

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2005-2006 Placements

Bornali Bhandari

• Initial placement: Department of Social Science, Fitchburg State College
• Fields: International Economics, Development Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Steve Haynes (co-chair)

Ryan Bosworth

• Initial placement: Department of Political Science and Public Administration, North Carolina State University
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair)

Kevin Henrickson

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
• Fields: Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair)

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2004-2005 Placements

Avik Chakraborty

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
• Fields: International Finance, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Steve Haynes (co-chair)

Brad Curs

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Missouri – Columbia
• Fields: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics, and Industrial Organization
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair), Glen Waddell

William Hall

• Initial placement: Hollins University
• Fields: Economic Growth and Development, International Economics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair)

Stephen Kosovich

• Initial placement: Stephen F. Austin State University
• Fields: international Economics, Labor Economics
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair)

Michael Visser

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University
• Fields: Behavioral Economics, Applied Game Theory, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
• Committee: William Harbaugh (chair)

Dameon Wilbur

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
• Fields: IO, Game Theory, Micro Theory, Econometrics
• Committee: Van Kolpin (chair)

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2003-2004 Placements

Ed Birdyshaw

• Initial placement: CSU-Fresno
• Fields: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and Econometrics
• Committee: Chris Ellis (chair)

Oguzhan Dincer

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Massey University
• Fields: Economic Growth and Development, Public Economics, Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics
• Committee: Chris Ellis (chair)

Mark Stater

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
• Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Game Theory
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair)

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2002-2003 Placements

Michael Jonathan Enz

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Western New England College
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Larry Singell, Lynn Kahle (Marketing)

Eran A. Guse

• Initial Placement: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Van Kolpin, Shankha Chakraborty, Mikhail Myagkov (Political Science)

Seunggi Kim

• Initial Placement: Korea National Assembly
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Steve Haynes, Wes Wilson, Diane Del Guercio (Finance)

Benjamin H. Liebman

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, St. Joseph’s University
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Ron Davies, Wes Wilson, Steers (Management)

Miao Wang

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Marquette University
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Steve Haynes (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Yue Fang (Decision Sciences)

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2001-2002 Placements

Aaron L. Jackson

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Bentley University
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Jo Anna Gray, George Racette (Finance)

Mohamed M.M. Soliman

• Initial Placement: American University of Sharjah, UAE
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Steve Haynes, Ron Davies, George Racette (Finance)

Man Chiu (Sunny) Wong

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Steve Haynes, John Orbell (Political Science)

Rossitza B. Wooster

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Larry Singell, Lynn Kahle (Marketing)

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2000-2001 Placements

William A. Branch

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Van Kolpin, Chris Ellis, John Chalmers (Finance)

Scott E. Merryman

• Initial Placement: United States Department of Agriculture
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Larry Singell, Robert O’Brien (Sociology)

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1999-2000 Placements

Peter R. Crabb

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Northwest Nazarene University
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Wes Wilson, Steve Haynes, David Haushalter (Finance)

Athipong Hirunraengchok

• Initial Placement: National Economic and Social Development Board, Thailand
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Van Kolpin, George Racette (Finance)

Bruce B. McGough

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Christopher Ellis, Van Kolpin, George Racette (Finance)

Jeffrey E. Russell

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Ashland University
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair), James Ziliak, Joe Stone, Patricia Gwartney (Sociology)

Kevin A. Terada

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Mark Thoma, Steve Haynes, Sergio Koreisha (Decision Sciences)