Jean Arment

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Job Market Paper: Food Dependency in Sub Saharan Africa: Simply a Matter of ‘Vulnerability,’ or Missed Development Opportunity

Research Interests: Development Economics, Food Security, Food Dependency, Impacts of Globalization, History of Economic Thought

Teaching Experience: Macroeconomics, Economics as a Social Science, U.S. Economic History, Principles of Econometrics, and Gender and Economic Development in the Third World

References: Codrina Rada| Richard Fowles | Gunseli Berik | E. K. Hunt

Ari Fenn

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Job Market Paper: Are Patients Collateral Damage?  The Effects of Registered Nurse Unionism on Patient   Outcomes in the Acute Care Setting

Research Interests: Labor Economics,  Health Economics, Inequality

Teaching Experience: Labor Economics, Principals of Microeconomics, History of the US Economy

 References: Peter Philips| Norman Waitzman | Thomas Maloney

Dustin Hamalainen

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Job Market Paper: Banking on bubbles: credit creation and the persistence of bull markets

Research Interests: Financial Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, Financial Stability and Monetary Theory

Teaching Expertise: Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Econometrics

References: Korkut Erturk| Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz | Rudiger von Arnim

Ali Jalali

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Job Market Paper: The Minimum Wage and Infant Mortality

Research Interest: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Teaching Expertise: Health Economics, Econometrics, Healthcare Finance

References: Norman Waitzman | Richard Nelson | Eric Sjoberg

Zhi Li

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Job Market Paper: The Effect of Unions on Wage Distribution and Inequality: how skill-enhancing unions influence the wage distribution

Research Expertise: Labor economics, Marxian economics, inequality, global value chain

Teaching Expertise: Has experience in teaching Principle Economics and Statistics and Inference. Would like to teach History of Thought and Political Economy if required.

References: Peter Philips | Norman Waitzman | Mark Prus |Günseli Berik

Up Sira Nukulkit

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Job Market Paper 1: Neutral Technical Progress and the Measure of Value: Along the Kaldor-Kennedy line

Job Market Paper 2: Technical Progress in Keynesian Social Security Pension

Research Interests: My research interests are in the theories of technical progress, specifically in the fields of macroeconomics, history of economic thought, theory of value, and public policies. I focus on economic modeling and the differences among economic approaches in the growth and distribution literature in both practical and theoretical contexts.

Teaching Expertise: I was an instructor for History of Economic Doctrine for the last three years, an instructor for Mathematics for Economics, and a teaching assistant for Prob&Stat Inference and Principles of Microeconomics.

References:Codrina Rada| Cihan Bilginsoy | Korkut Erturk

Joyita Roy Chowdhury

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Job Market Paper 1: Collective Action in Water Resource Management: Evidence from a Survey and Public Goods Experiments

Job Market Paper 2: Flood Shocks, Household’s Coping Strategies, and Responses: Empirical Evidence from Rural Odisha, India

Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Applied Microeconometrics, Resource and Environmental Economics, Survey Research Design, and Behavioral Experiments

Teaching Expertise: Microeconomics, Econometrics, Resource and Environmental Economics, Development Economics

References:Gabriel Lozada | Eric Sjoberg | Subhasish Dugar | Haimanti Bhattacharya

Kartik Verma

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Job Market Paper: The impact of last yard water infrastructure on improved sanitation toilet access: Evidence from a panel of rural Indian households

Research Interests: Applied microeconomics, health economics, social determinants of health, caste inequalities and its health consequences.

Teaching Expertise: Microeconomics, macroeconomics, labor economics, international economics, and mathematics for economics.

 References: Norman Waitzman| Eric Sjoberg | Stephen Alder

Sophie Wu

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Job Market Paper: Trade Openness, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth in China

Research Interests: Chinese political economy; investigation and identification of an economy’s potential vital economic sectors; China’s trade and development policies

Teaching Expertise: Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, Probability and Statistical Inference, East Asian Political Economy

References:  Codrina Rada | Thomas Maloney | Tracy Mott