Economics Ph.D. Job Market Candidates 2025-26

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

Last modified: Oct 14, 2025