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.
2025-2026 Job Market Candidates
Interested in hiring a department graduate? See our brochure of current job market candidates or review the list below.
Julia Godfrey
Job Market Paper: Recidivism Reduction Initiatives: An Evaluation of Conditional Early Release
Fields: Public Economics, Urban Economics Inequality
References: Lisa Kahn, John Singleton Kegon Tan
Email: jgodfre3@ur.rochester.edu
Website
Kazuma Inagaki
Job Market Paper: Born Global, New Exporter Dynamics and the Aggregate Gains from Trade
Fields: International Trade, Macroeconomics
References: George Alessandria, Yan Bai, Takayuki Tsuruga
Email: kinagaki@ur.rochester.edu
Website
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, Yu Awaya
Email: zma19@ur.rochester.edu
Website
Kyeongmin Park
Job Market Paper: Quality-driven Automation
Fields: Macroeconomics, Technological Change
References: Mark Bils, Rafael Guntin, George Alessandria
Email: kyeongmin.park@rochester.edu
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Keita Sunada
Job Market Paper: Optimal Treatment Assignment Rules Under Capacity Constraints
Fields: Econometrics, Treatment assignment, statistical decision theory
References: Nese Yildiz, Bin Chen, Yukun Ma
Email: ksunada@ur.rochester.edu
Website
Yucheng Wong
Job Market Paper: Venture Capital Contracts and Heterogeneous Innovation
Fields: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Innovation
References: Yan Bai, George Alessandria, Rafael Guntin
Email: ywong8@ur.rochester.edu
Website
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.yang152@outlook.com
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Shirley Yu-Hsuan Yen
Job Market Paper: Wealth Effects, Leisure Complementarity, and Spousal Labor Supply
Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Macro Labor, Public Economics
References: Lisa Kahn, Mark Bils, Ronni Pavan
Email: yyen3@ur.rochester.edu
Website