Get to know our PhD candidates entering the job market.
Contact Matthew Baum (political science), Mark Shepard (economics), or Joseph Aldy (economics) with questions about our PhD in Public Policy (PPOL) and Political Economy and Government (PEG) candidates, and Nicole Tateosian about our PhD in Social Policy candidates.
Sachet Bangia (Economics Track)
Sarah Chen (judgment and Decision Making Track)
Gabriella Fleischman (Economics Track)
Job Market Paper title: Economic and Psychological Returns to Social Relationships: Alleviating Constraints to Network Formation in Malawi
Fields: Development economics (primary); social networks, health economics (secondary)
Committee: Marcella Alsan, Emily Breza, Reshmaan Hussam, Eliana La Ferrara
Michelle Li (Economics Track)
Job Market Paper title: Of Tracks and Trails: How Accessible Green Spaces Reshape Communities
Fields: Applied microeconomics, environmental economics, urban economics
Committee: Rema Hanna (chair), Edward Glaeser, Gabriel Kreindler
Paichen Li (Economics Track)
René Livas (Economics Track)
Job Market Paper title: Local Taxes and Suburbanization: Evidence from Philadelphia's Wage Tax
Fields: Urban economics, labor economics, international trade
Committee: Gordon Hanson (chair), Edward Glaeser, Gabriel Kreindler
Grace Michel (Economics Track)
Job Market Paper title: The Social Architecture of Healing: Peer Structure and Spillovers in Trauma Recovery
Fields: Development economics (primary); labor and behavioral economics (secondary)
Committee: Eliana La Ferrara (chair), Reshmaan Hussam, Nathan Nunn
Avi Moorthy (Economics Track)
Job Market Paper title: The Defender on the Move: Black Newspapers and the Great Migration
Fields: Labor economics (primary); economic history, political economy, development economics (secondary)
Committee: Will Dobbie (chair), Desmond Ang, Claudia Goldin
Karen Ni (Economics Track)
Job Market Paper title: Divergent Pathways: The Impact of Alternative Pathways to HS Graduation on Student Outcomes
Fields: Labor and public economics
Committee: Christopher Norio Avery (chair), Michela Carlana, Thomas Kane
Kartik Srivastava (Economics Track)
Job Market Paper title: Familiar Strangers: Evidence from Referral-Based Hiring Experiments in India
Fields: Development economics, labor economics
Committee: Emily Breza, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Eliana La Ferrara
Raúl Duarte (Government Track)
Job Market Paper title: Patronage Hierarchies and Tax Collection
Fields: Political economy, economic development, comparative politics, public finance
Committee: Melissa Dell, Alisha Holland, Anders Jensen, Horacio Larreguy (external), Vincent Pons
Shreya Tandon (Economics Track)
Job Market Paper title: Into the Unknown: Job Exploration Risk and Spousal Labor Supply Coordination in India
Fields: Development, labor, public economics
Committee: Emily Breza, Claudia Goldin, Rema Hanna, Gabriel Kreindler
Recent PhD in PPOL, PEG, and Social Policy graduates have accepted academic positions at top institutions such as: Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics and Political Science, New York University, Penn State University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Tufts University, University of California, San Diego, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.
Others pursued analyst or policy careers at the Federal Reserve Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, nongovernmental organizations, and in the private sector.