Job Market Candidates 2025-26

Boston University Department of Economics

Placement Officer: Professor Juan Ortner, jortner@bu.edu, (617) 353-6323
PhD Program Administrator: Mirtha Cabello, cabello@bu.edu, (617) 353-4454

Sort by: Name, Field

View the 2026 Placement Brochure.

Current Candidates (2026)

Laura Alicia Aquino Arriaga

Laura Alicia Aquino Arriaga Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Law and Economics
Job Market Paper: Strategic Adaptation to Gender Quotas in Mexican Local Politics
CV | Website | aquino@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman

Plinio Dias Bicalho

Plinio Bicalho Fields: International Trade, Public Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Quantifying the Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Competition
CV | Website | pliniob@bu.edu
References: David Lagakos, Benjamin Marx, Natalia Ramondo

Michael Briskin

Michael Briskin Fields: Labor Economics, Economic History, Economics of Education
Job Market Paper: Teacher Supply and Long-Run Student Outcomes: Evidence from World War II
CV | Website | mbriskin@bu.edu
References: James Feigenbaum, Robert Margo, Joshua Goodman

Abigail Dow

Abigail Dow Fields: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Environmental Economics
Job Market Paper: The Price of Parenthood: Childcare Costs and Fertility
CV | Website | abidow@bu.edu
References: Kevin Lang, Patricia Cortés, Tal Gross

John Fallon

John Fallon Fields: Labor Economics, Economics of Education
Job Market Paper: Competitive Occupational Licensure: Doctors Versus Chiropractors
CV | Website | jfallon899@gmail.com
References: Kevin Lang, Joshua Goodman, James Feigenbaum, Marcus Winters

Grant Goehring

Grant Goehring Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Economic History, Health Economics
Job Market Paper: Contagious Cargo: Health Externalities from Livestock Trade during Early Globalization
CV | Website | grantg@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, James Feigenbaum, David Lagakos

Danielle Graves Williamson

Danielle Graves Williamson Fields: Labor Economics, Economic History, Economics of Education, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: Southern Academies: The Proliferation of All-White Private Schools After Brown and Their Legacy for Students
CV | Website | dcgw@bu.edu
References: James Feigenbaum, Robert Margo, Kevin Lang, Joshua Goodman, Martin Fiszbein

Zixing Guo

Zixing Guo Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Financial Economics
Job Market Paper: The Macro Impact of the Debt-Inflation Channel on Investment
CV | Website | gzx@bu.edu
References: Masao Fukui, Stephen Terry, David Lagakos, Tarek Hassan, Robert King

Ayush Gupta

Ayush Gupta Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization, Market Design, Organizational Economics
Job Market Paper: A Theory of Efficient Price Cycles Under Imperfect Monitoring
CV | Website | guptaayu@bu.edu
References: Juan Ortner, Andrew Newman, Dilip Mookherjee

Seoyun Hong

Seoyun Hong Fields: Econometrics, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Endogeneity and High-Dimensional Covariates
CV | Website | seoyun@bu.edu
References: Iván Fernández-Val, Hiroaki Kaido, Kevin Lang

Kevin Klein

Kevin Klein Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Network Governance in Relational Contracts
CV | Website | kaklein@bu.edu
References: Barton Lipman, Andrew Newman, Krishna Dasaratha

Sobin Lee

Sobin Lee Fields: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: Medicaid Spillovers on Commercially Insured Patients: Evidence from Postpartum Depression Screening
CV | Website | sobinlee@bu.edu
References: Randall P. Ellis, Marc Rysman, Pauline Mourot

Ce Li

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Information Design, Mechanism Design, Algorithmic Game Theory, Artificial Intelligence
Job Market Paper: Learning to Design Information
CV | Website | celi@bu.edu
References: Barton Lipman, Juan Ortner, Jawwad Noor, Haifeng Xu, Pengyu Qian, Gerdus Benadè

Xuan Li

Xuan Li Fields: Public Economics, Political Economy, Economics of Education
Job Market Paper: Hate Crimes and Student Outcomes
CV | Website | xuanli@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Daniele Paserman, Benjamin Marx, Joshua Goodman

Luwen Mai

Luwen Mai Fields: Labor (Family) Economics, Environmental Economics, Urban Economics
Job Market Paper: For Better or For Worse: The Added Worker Effect in the 21st Century U.S.
CV | Website | jtkirk@bu.edu
References: Daniele Paserman, Johannes Schmieder, Keren Horn, Robert Margo

Haoran Pan

Haoran Pan Fields: Econometrics, Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Nonparametric Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Peers
CV | Website | hpan51@bu.edu
References: Hiroaki Kaido, Iván Fernández-Val, Marc Rysman

Hannah Rhodenhiser

Hannah Rhodenhiser Fields: Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics
Job Market Paper: Averting Deforestation At Scale: The Macroeconomics of Payments for Ecosystem Services
CV | Website | hmrh@bu.edu
References: David Lagakos, Masao Fukui, Pascual Restrepo

Katrina Suchoski

Katrina Suchoski Fields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Rare Diseases and Small Businesses
CV | Website | suchoski@bu.edu
References: Randall P. Ellis, Jihye Jeon, Marc Rysman

Zhanyuan Tian

Zhanyuan Tian Fields: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Policy Learning with Biased Quasi-experimental Data
CV | Website | zhanyuan@bu.edu
References: Hiroaki Kaido, Iván Fernández-Val, Kevin Lang

Jiarui Wang

Jiarui Wang Fields: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Competing for Its Own Sake: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Competition
CV | Website | jiaruiw@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Daniele Paserman, Linh T. Tô

Jiaqi Yang

Fields: Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
Job Market Paper: Choice Overload via Choice Stickiness
CV | Website | jqyang@bu.edu
References: Jawwad Noor, Barton Lipman, Krishna Dasaratha

Past Candidates (2025)

Past Candidates (2024)

Past Candidates (2023)

View the 2023 Placement Brochure (Here)

Rubaiyat Alam

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Health Economics
Job Market Paper: Quality Choice with Reputation Effects: Evidence from Hospices in California
CV | Website | ralam@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Randall Ellis

Marshall Drake

Fields: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: Wage Differentials and the Price of Workplace Flexibility
CV | Website | mhdrake@bu.edu
References: Ray Fisman, Linh Tô, Jawwad Noor

César Garro-Marín

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: The Geography of Women’s Opportunity: Evidence from Indonesia
CV | Website | cesarlgm@bu.edu
References: Daniele Paserman, Kevin Lang, Linh Tô

Shomik Ghosh

Fields: Labor Economics, Gender Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Bridging the Gap: The Effect of Licensing and Professional Certification on the Gender-Wage Gap
CV | Website | shomikg@bu.edu
References: Daniele Paserman, Kevin Lang, Linh Tô

Nicolas Guida-Johnson

Fields: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Informality and Development: The Role of Transportation Infrastructure in Reducing Self-Employment
CV | Website | guidaj@bu.edu
References: Daniele Paserman, Patricia Cortes, Martin Fiszbein

Masyhur Hilmy

Fields: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Remittances, Economic Development, and Education Investment
CV | Website | mhilmy@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Daniele Paserman, Joshua Goodman

Chuqing Jin

Fields: Industrial Organization, Finance, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Does Competition Between Experts Improve Information Quality? Evidence from the Security Analyst Market
CV | Website | cjin@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Lucy White, Mark Egan, Hiroaki Kaido

Heechul Jung

Fields: Macroeconomics, Corporate Finance
Job Market Paper: The Rise of Intangibles and Financing Frictions
CV | Website | hcjung@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Tarek Hassan, Robert King

Aakash Kalyani

Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: The Creativity Decline: Evidence from US Patents
CV | Website | aakashk@bu.edu
References: Tarek Hassan, Pascual Restrepo, Nick Bloom, Josh Lerner

Nils Haakon Lehr

Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth
Job Market Paper: R&D Return Dispersion and Growth
CV | Website | nilslehr@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Pascual Restrepo, Tarek Hassan, David Lagakos

Chenyue Lei

Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance, International Economics
Job Market Paper: Financial Frictions, Debt Tax Shield, and the Macroeconomy
CV | Website | cylei@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, David Lagakos, Tarek Hassan

Duoxi Li

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Organizational Economics
Job Market Paper: Relationship Building under Market Pressure
CV | Website | duoxili@bu.edu
References: Dilip Mookherjee, Juan Ortner, Andrew Newman, Johannes Schmieder

Yuheng Zhao

Fields: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Economic History
Job Market Paper: The Long-term and Distributional Effects of School Consolidations: Evidence from China
CV | Website | zhaoyh@bu.edu
References: Dilip Mookherjee, Kevin Lang, Siddharth George

Beixi Zhou

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
Job Market Paper: Optimal Disclosure Windows
CV | Website | bzhou@bu.edu
References: Barton Lipman, Chiara Margaria, Juan Ortner

Liqun Zhuge

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Bargaining over Marriage Payments: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
CV | Website | zhuge@bu.edu
References: Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman, Martin Fiszbein

Past Candidates (2022)

View the 2022 Placement Brochure (Here)

Yiming Cao

Cao_Yiming

Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Economic History
Job Market Paper: The Social Costs of Patronage Ties: Lessons from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake
CV | Website | yiming@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Dilip Mookherjee, Siddharth George, Samuel Bazzi, Nathan Nunn

Shuowen Chen

Fields: Econometrics, Empirical Industrial Organization, Economics of Innovation
Job Market Paper: An Indirect Fixed Effects Estimator for Nonlinear Panel
CV | Website | swchen@bu.edu
References: Ivan Fernandez-Val, Hiroaki Kaido, Jean-Jacques Forneron

Enrico De Magistris

De Magistris Enrico

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Mechanism Design
Job Market Paper: Choice of Outside Options in a Bargaining Model
CV | Website | enricodm@bu.edu
References: Bart Lipman, Juan Ortner, Chiara Margaria

Mengqi Deng

Fields: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Law and Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Biased Medias, a Bayesian Persuasion Analysis
CV | Website | mdeng@bu.edu
References: Juan Ortner, Andrew Newman, Alex White

Vittoria Dicandia

Dicandia Vittoria

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: Technological Change and Racial Disparities
CV | Website | dicandia@bu.edu
References: Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman, Joshua Goodman

Chen Gao

Gao Chen

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Bargaining and Merger in Vertical Relationships: Empirics of Packaged Food with Limited Data
CV| Website | cgao14@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Albert Ma, Jordi Jaumandreu(Teaching)

Pablo Guzman-Pinto

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Unemployment Insurance with Individual Savings Accounts
CV| Website | pguzmanp@bu.edu
References: Johannes Schmieder, Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman

Alex Hoagland

Fields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure? The Value of Health Risk Information
CV | Website | alcobe@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis (co-advisor), Tal Gross (co-advisor), Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon

Md. Deen Islam

Fields: International Economics, Development Economics, Macroeconomics
Job Market Paper: The Geography of Automation
CV | Website | mdislam@bu.edu
References: Stefania Garetto, Pascual Restrepo, Yuhei Miyauchi

Miaoqing Jia

Fields: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: The demand uncertainty of medicine consumption with policy implication
CV| Website | jiam@bu.edu
References: Albert Ma, Randall Ellis, Marc Rysman

Sung-Yup Jung

Fields: Regional Economics, Urban Economics, Empirical Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Industrial Parks and Regional Development: Evidence from South Korean Industrial Park Policy
CV| Website | sungyup@bu.edu
References: Yuhei Miyauchi, Siddarth George, Robert G King

Enjar Lkhagvajav

Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Economics of Innovation
Job Market Paper: Exploitative Innovation and Growth
CV | Website | enjar@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Pascual Restrepo, Adam Guren, Michael Meurer

Max McDevitt

Fields: Economic, History Political Economy, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Between the Board Room and Parliament: Special Legislation, Capital Investment, and Railway Directors in Parliament, 1854-1901
CV | Website | mjmcd@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, Martin Fiszbein, James Feigenbaum

Ian Meeker

Fields: Industrial Organization, Quantitative marketing
Job Market Paper: Does Peter Piper Pick a Package of Pepper Inattentively? The Consumer Response to Product Size Changes
CV| Website | imeeker@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Andrey Fradkin, Jihye Jeon

Thomas Pearson

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: U.S. Immigration Enforcement and Mexican Labor Markets
CV| Website | tpearson@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Daniele Paserman, David Lagakos

Stefano Pica

Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Household Finance
Job Market Paper: Housing Markets and the Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy Across the Euro Area
CV | Website | stpica@bu.edu
References: Adam Guren, Stephen Terry, Robert G King

Alden Porter

Fields: Labor Economics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Job Market Paper: On the Incomplete Ordering of Skills: A Study of Occupational Mobility and the Careers of Young Men
CV | Website | porteraw@bu.edu
References: Pascual Restrepo, Johannes Schmieder, Kevin Lang

Anlong Qin

Fields: Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Modeling Regime Switching in High Dimensional Data with Applications to U.S. Business Cycles
CV| Website | qal@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Hiroaki Kaido

Hanna Schwank

Fields: Economic History, Labor Economics, Gender Economics
Job Market Paper: Disruptive Effects of Natural Disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire
CV | Website | hschwank@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, James Feigenbaum, Johannes Schmieder, Robert Margo

Martin Shu

Fields: Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Selection, Structural Transformation, and the Cost Disease of Services
CV| Website | syshu@bu.edu
References: David Lagakos (co-advisor), Pascual Restrepo (co-advisor), Kevin Lang

Joseph Simmons

Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Real Rigidities Strike Back: Retailers, Sticky Basket Prices, and Monetary Non-Neutrality
CV | Website | jrsimmon@bu.edu
References: Adam Guren (co-advisor), Stephen Terry (co-advisor), Pascual Restrepo

Dongling Su

Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance
Job Market Paper: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions in a Model with Low-Interest Rates
CV | Website | dlsu@bu.edu
References: Jianjun Miao, Adam Guren, Stephen Terry

Jingye Wang

Fields: International Finance, International Macroeconomics, Asset Pricing
Job Market Paper: Currency Risk and Capital Accumulation
CV | Website | wjytx@bu.edu
References: Tarek Hassan, Stephen Terry, Andrea Vedolin, Thomas Mertens

Meng Wu

Fields: Political Economy, Development Economics and Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Ownership, Partisanship, and Media Slant: Evidence from the U.S. Media during the Sino-U.S. Trade Conflict
CV| Website | wumeng@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Martin Fiszbein, Dilip Mookherjee

Fangning Yan

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Economics of Digitization
Job Market Paper: Freewheeling: A Spatial Structural Analysis of the Bike-Sharing Industry
CV | Website | riyan@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Randall Ellis, Andrey Fradkin

Guangzhi Ye

Fields: Macroeconomics, Corporate Finance
Job Market Paper: The Macro Impact of the Recovery Rate
CV| Website | gye@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Adam Guren, Robert G King

Victor Yifan Ye

Fields: Computational Economics, Public Finance, Urban Economics
Job Market Paper: Simulating Endogenous Global Automation
CV| Website | victor@yifanye.com
References: Laurence Kotlikoff, Seth Benzell, David Altig, Charles Becker

Yoshifumi Yokota

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, Behavioral Economics
Job Market Paper: The Limits of Robust Information Design
CV| Website | yyokota@bu.edu
References: Bart Lipman, Larry Epstein, Juan Ortner

Kewei Zhang

Fields: Development Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Finding Credit at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Chinese State Lending and Corporate Investment in Impoverished Areas
CV| Website | zhangkw@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Dilip Mookherjee, Siddharth George, Martin Fiszbein

Kexin Zhang

Fields: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: The Long-run Impact of Higher Education: Evidence from the Gaokao (NCEE) Reinstatement in China
CV | Website | kz628@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Daniele Paserman, Dilip Mookherjee, Mahesh Karra

Luke Zinnen

Fields: Macroeconomics, Banking, Financial Engineering
Job Market Paper: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nomura? Remedies for Fraud with Market-Level Consequences
CV | Website | lzinnen@bu.eduw
References: Robert G King, Pascual Restrepo, Christophe Chamley

Past Candidates (2021)

View the 2021 Placement Brochure (Here)

Undral Byambadalai

Fields: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Identification and Inference for Welfare
C.V. | Website | undral@bu.edu
References: Hiroaki Kaido, Ivan Fernandez-Val, Albert Ma, Jean-Jacques Forneron

Lester Chan

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Weight-Ranked Divide-and-Conquer Contracts
C.V.| Website | lctlabc@bu.edu
References: Albert Ma, Bart Lipman, Alex White

Pablo Cuellar Tapia

Fields: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Law and Economics
Job Market Paper: Voluntary disclosure of evidence in plea bargaining
C.V. | Website | pcuel@bu.edu
References: Juan Ortner, Bart Lipman, Dilip Mookherjee

Taosong Deng

Fields: Econometrics, Quantitative Macroeconomics, Empirical Finance
Job Market Paper: Inference in Predictive Regressions with Persistent Predictors
C.V.| Website | tsdeng@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Jean-Jacques Forneron

Gerard Domenech Arumi

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Neighborhoods, Perceived Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona
C.V. | Website | domenech@bu.edu
References: Daniele Paserman, Ray Fisman, Johannes Schmieder

Thomas Gautier

Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Bargaining and Merger in Vertical Relationships: Empirics of Packaged Food with Limited Data
C.V.| Website | cgao14@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Jihye Jeon, Jordi Jaumandreu

Youming Liu

Fields: Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics, Chinese Economy
Job Market Paper: Competition for Exclusivity and Customer Lock-in
C.V. | Website | yorkliu@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Shanjun Li, Jihye Jeon, Panle Jia Barwick

Sophia Ying Liu

Fields: Health Economics, Economic History, Empirical Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Human Capital Development: The Role of the Great Depression
C.V. | Website | yliu0518@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, Daniele Paserman, Randall Ellis, Jay Zagorsky

Enkhjargal Lkhagvajav

Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Economics of Innovation
Job Market Paper: The Effect of Patent Disclosure on Firm Innovation and Growth
C.V. | Website | enjar@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Pascual Restrepo, Adam Guren, Michael Meurer

Yang Ming

Fields: Macroeconomics, Economics of Innovation, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Good Dispersion in Bad Times: A Story of R&D Heterogeneity
C.V. | Website | mingyang@bu.edu
References: Christophe Chamley, Stephen Terry, Jianjun Miao, Robert G. King

Julio Ortiz

Fields: Macroeconomics, Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Spread too Thin: The Impact of Lean Inventories
C.V. | Website | jlortiz@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Adam Guren, Pascual Restrepo

Cheonghum Park

Fields: Political Economy, Behavioral Finance, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Investor Attention to Firm versus Market-wide Information Shocks: Evidence from North Korean Missile Tests
C.V. | Website | chpark@bu.edu
References: Ray Fisman, Daniele Paserman, Sam Bazzi

Fernando Payro Chew

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics
Job Market Paper: Mixture-Dependent Preference for Commitment
C.V. | Website | fpayro@bu.edu
References: Larry Epstein, Jawwad Noor, Bart Lipman

Anlong Qin

Fields: Econometrics, Time Series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Modeling Regime Switching in High Dimensional Data with Applications to U.S. Business Cycles
C.V. | Website | qal@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Hiroaki Kaido

Zhouxiang Shen

Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance
Job Market Paper: Production of private safe assets and macroprudential policy
C.V. | Website | zxshen@bu.edu
References: Jianjun Miao, Stephen Terry, Adam Guren

Chenlu Song

Fields: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: What Saves More: Coinsurance or Copayment?
C.V. | Website | csong@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis, Albert Ma, Robert Margo

Lisa Tarquinio

Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Environmental Economics
Job Market Paper: The Politics of Drought Relief: Evidence from Southern India
C.V. | Website | LTarq@bu.edu
References: Dilip Mookherjee, Tarek Hassan, Ray Fisman

Silvia Vannutelli

Fields: Public Economics, Political Economy, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: From Lapdogs to Watchdogs: Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance in Italy
C.V. | Website | svann@bu.edu
References: Ray Fisman, Daniele Paserman, Ilyana Kuziemko, Johannes Schmieder

Shuang Wang

Fields: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconometrics
Job Market Paper: Price Competition with Endogenous Entry: The Effects of Marriott & Starwood’s Merger in Texas
C.V. | Website | shuangw@bu.edu
References: Marc Rysman, Hiroaki Kaido, Jihye Jeon, Jacob LaRiviere

Anna Weber

Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: The Big House Far From Home: Spatial Distance and Criminal Recidivism
C.V. | Website | eaweber@bu.edu
References: Kevin Lang, Daniele Paserman, James Feigenbaum

Meng Wu

Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Readers vs owner? What drives media attention on China in the United States during the Sino-US trade conflict
C.V. | Website | wumeng@bu.edu
References: Raymond Fisman, Martin Fiszbein, Dilip Mookherjee

Dongwei Xu

Fields: Macroeconomics, Asset Pricing, International Economics
Job Market Paper: Labor Adjustment Cost: Implications for Asset Prices
C.V. | Website | xud@bu.edu
References: Marianne Baxter, Stephen Terry, Andrea Vedolin

Guang Zhang

Fields: Econometrics, Empirical Finance
Job Market Paper: Quasi Monte Carlo Kalman Filter for Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian State Space Models
C.V. | Website | gzhang46@bu.edu
References: Zhongjun Qu, Pierre Perron, Jean-Jacques Forneron

Nan Zhao

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Contract Theory
Job Market Paper: Dynamic Incentive Provision When Evaluation Takes Time
C.V. | Website | zhaonan@bu.edu
References: Bart Lipman, Juan Ortner, Chiara Margaria

Xiaoxi Zhao

Fields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: The Effect of Medical Loss Ratio Regulation on Insurers’ Pricing
C.V. | Website | xiaoxiz@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis, Marc Rysman, Leila Agha, Christopher Whaley

Calvin Ackley

Fields: Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Equilibrium Effects of Tiered Cost Sharing in the Market for Medical Care
C.V. | Website | ackleycb@bu.edu
References: Randall Ellis, Tal Gross, Marc Rysman

Fatima Aqeel

Fields: Development Economics, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Educational Investment and Marriage Success: Evidence from Pakistan
C.V. | Website | faqeel@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Dilip Mookherjee, Daniele Paserman

Seth Benzell

Fields: Economics of Digitization, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: Multi-Sided Platform Strategy, Taxation, and Regulation: A Quantitative Model and Application to Facebook
C.V. | Website | sbenzell@mit.edu
References: Laurence Kotlikoff, Erik Brynjolfsson, Marshall Van Allstyne, Pascual Restrepo

Chelsea Carter

Fields: Urban and Regional Economics, Economic History, Empirical Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Forts and the Frontier: The US Army and the Spatial Distribution of Population
C.V. | Website | cecarter@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, James Feigenbaum, Megan MacGarvie

Jacob Fabina

Fields: Labor Economics, Macroeconomics
Job Market Paper: The Effect of Federal Oversight on For-Profit Colleges
C.V. | Website | jfabina@bu.edu
References: Adam Guren, Daniele Paserman, Simon Gilchrist

Xiangyu Feng

Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Growth in China: the Role of Capital Upgrading
C.V. | Website | xyfeng@bu.edu
References: Stephen Terry, Pascual Restrepo, Robert King

Thea How Choon

Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy
Job Market Paper: Biased Campaign Advice: Cheap Talk and Bayesian Persuasion
C.V. | Website | theahow@bu.edu
References: Dilip Mookherjee, Bart Lipman, Juan Ortner

Yeseul Hyun

Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Does Intrafamily Time Allocation Respond to Economic Shocks? The Role of Gender Norms
C.V. | Website | yhyun@bu.edu
References: Daniele Paserman, Samuel Bazzi, Johannes Schmieder

Gedeon Lim

Fields: Development Economics, Political Economy, Economic History
Job Market Paper: Why Pay the Chief? Political Selection & Economic Development in Indonesia
C.V. | Website | gedeonl@bu.edu
References: Samuel Bazzi, Dilip Mookherjee, Robert Margo

Giovanna Marcolongo

Fields: Political Economy, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Organized Crime, Earthquakes and Local Public Procurement: Evidence from Italy
C.V. | Website | gio@bu.edu
References: Dilip Mookherjee, Ray Fisman, Pascual Restrepo

Julian Richers

Fields: Macro Finance, Asset Pricing, Macroeconomics
Job Market Paper: UIP Violations and the Cost of Capital: Firm-level Evidence
C.V. | Website | richersj@bu.edu
References: Tarek Hassan, Simon Gilchrist, Stephen Terry, Andrea Vedolin

Gianluca Russo

Fields: Political Economy, Economic History, Development Economics
Job Market Paper: Mass Media and Cultural Homogenization: Broadcasting the American Dream on the Radio
C.V. | Website | russog@bu.edu
References: Robert Margo, James Feigenbaum, Daniele Paserman, Martin Fiszbein

Chenlu Song

Wendy Xu

Fields: Applied Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics, Organizational Economics
Job Market Paper: Optimal Screening of Multi-Period Discrete Choice
C.V. | Website | wendyx@bu.edu
References: Chiara Margaria, Ching-to Albert Ma, Jawwad Noor

Manni Yu

Fields: Macroeconomics, Public Finance
Job Market Paper: The Rich Save More: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
C.V. | Website | yumanni@bu.edu
References: Laurence Kotlikoff, Adam Guren, Pascual Restrepo

Job Market Candidates 2025-26

Boston University Department of Economics

Sort by: Name, Field

View the 2026 Placement Brochure.

Current Candidates (2026)

Laura Alicia Aquino Arriaga

Plinio Dias Bicalho

Michael Briskin

Abigail Dow

John Fallon

Grant Goehring

Danielle Graves Williamson

Zixing Guo

Ayush Gupta

Seoyun Hong

Kevin Klein

Sobin Lee

Ce Li

Xuan Li

Luwen Mai

Haoran Pan

Hannah Rhodenhiser

Katrina Suchoski

Zhanyuan Tian

Jiarui Wang

Jiaqi Yang

Past Candidates (2025)

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Alonso Ahumada

Ariel Akerman

Anastasiia Arbuzova

Byeo Rhee Bak

Franco Maldonado Carlin

Elizabeth Casano

Qingyuan Chai

Peter Deffebach

Katarina Fedorov

Xuchao Gao

Qifan Han

Yosuke Higashiyama

Justin J. Hong

Matthew Hong

Elaine Kiiru

Zixian Liu

Yan Liu

Elijah Locke

Lei Ma

Siyi Song

Peiran Xiao

Yuzhao Yang

Liang Zhong

Tyera Zweygardt

Past Candidates (2024)

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Danrong Chen

Xinyuan Chen

Junhao Chen

Vikram Dixit

Eric Donald

Matteo Francesco Ferroni

Maximiliano Garcia

Eric Hardy

Sophie Li

Nayeon Lim

Michele Marcaletti

Patrick Power