
Mariana Bessa
Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
Job Market Paper Title: “Branch Banking Regulations and Financial Stability: A Cross-State Analysis of Depression-Era Banking”
Faculty references: Carlos Dobkin (Chair), Pascal Michaillat, Galina Hale

Piyush Gandhi
Fields of Interest: Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper Title: “Extinguishing the Blaze: Impact of Crop Residue Management on Stubble Burning in India”
Faculty references: Ariel Zucker, Jeremy West, Galina Hale, Ajay Shenoy, Jonathan Robinson

Gagandeep Sachdeva
Fields of Interest: Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper Title: “Relative Skills in the Classroom: Teachers’ Gender-Differentiated Impacts on Test Scores and Course Grades”
Faculty references: Laura Giuliano, George Bulman, Robert Fairlie

Neha Sikand
Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
Job Market Paper Title: “Dollars and Diets: How Equalizing Food Access Could Increase Life Expectancy”
Faculty references: Pascal Michaillat, Kenneth Kletzer, Alonso Villacorta

Yifan Si
Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics
Job Market Paper Title: “Credit Disruptions, Debt Maturity, and Investment Dynamics”
Faculty references: Alonso Villacorta (co-advisor), Galina Hale (co-advisor)

Hyunjin Yun
Fields of Interest: Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper Title: “Do Private Insurers Game Medicare Advantage?”
Faculty references: Carlos Dobkin, Justin Marion, George Bulman, Natalia Lazzati

Moumita Das
Fields of Interest: Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper Title: “Temperature and Temporary Migration”
Faculty references: Ajay Shenoy, Alan Spearot, Gueyon Kim