PhD Candidates on the Job Market

Questions regarding candidates should be directed to:

Ronni Pavan, Job Placement Director and Professor of Economics
ronni.pavan@rochester.edu

For administrative questions please contact Graduate Coordinator Elizabeth Proctor by email at ealouisa@ur.rochester.edu or by phone at (585) 275-8625.

2026-2027 Job Market Candidates

Interested in hiring a department graduate? See our brochure of current job market candidates (pdf) or review the list below.

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Burak Arici

Job Market Paper: Probationary Periods: Incentivizing Effort and Facilitating Learning

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, Dynamic Games

References: Paulo Barelli, Srihari Govindan, Yu Awaya

Email: barici@ur.rochester.edu

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Eugenio Gonzalez Flores

Job Market Paper: Borrowing to do, doing to learn

Fields: Macroeconomics; Secondary fields: Firm Dynamics, Macro-Labor, and Growth

References: Mark Bils, George Alessandria, Yan Bai

Email: eugenio.gonzalezflores@rochester.edu

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So Young Kim

Job Market Paper: Inclusionary Zoning and Access to Opportunity: Evidence from Washington, D.C.

Fields: Public Economics, Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics

References: John Singleton, Lisa Kahn, David Figlio

Email: soyoung.kim@rochester.edu

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Simon Li

Job Market Paper: Foreign Language and Social Preferences

Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics

References: Travis Baseler, John Singleton, Iris Vrioni

Email: simonliecon@gmail.com

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Zeming Ma

Job Market Paper: Fair Allocations in Crowdfunding: Order-Augmented Revenue-Sharing Problems

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Economic Design, Fair Division, Platform Economics

References: William Thomson, Paulo Barelli, Juan D. Moreno-Ternero

Email: zma19@ur.rochester.edu

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Yidi Yang

Job Market Paper: College Quality and Returns to Occupational Match

Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education

References: Ronni Pavan, John Singleton, Lisa Kahn

Email: yidi.yang@outlook.com

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Qiyang Yu

Job Market Paper: Spillovers Under Common Shocks In Panel Data: Estimation and Inference

Fields: Econometrics, High-dimensional Econometrics, Finanical Econometrics

References: Bin Chen, Nese Yildiz, Yukun Ma

Email: qyu13@ur.rochester.edu