Job Market Candidates
2025-2026

Peiran Cheng
Fields: Labor Economics, Education Economics, Health Economics, Public Finance.
Job Market Paper: Balancing budgets, Limiting Access: The Impact of State Appropriation Cut on Public University Decisions
Committee: Associate Professor Mindy Marks (chair), Associate Professor Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor Shantanu Khanna

Diana Li
Fields: Industrial Organization (primary), Labor Economics (secondary)
Job Market Paper: A Welfare Analysis of the WIC Subsidy Program
Committee: Professor James Dana, Associate Professor Mindy Marks, Associate Professor Imke Reimers (Cornell)

Shenghao Peng
Job Market Paper: Evaluating the Impact of an Income Shock on Crime: Evidence from 2021 Child Tax Credit Expansion
Committee: Associate Professor Mindy Marks (chair), Associate Professor Matthew Ross, Associate Professor Imke Reimers (Cornell)

Muhammad H Shabanpour
Fields: Empirical Asset Pricing, Econometrics, Industrial Organization, Microeconomics
Email | Website | CV
Cell: (617) 755 2083
Job Market Paper: Consumer Similarity & Predictable Returns
AEA Candidate Profile:
https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/candidates/candidate_profile_view.php?jcand=xdDcaXZkdRdDwlA6Dvudw9g7rCP009rV
Committee: Professor John Kwoka, Professor James Dana, Professor Ali Sharifkhani

Tianyi Tao
Fields: Industrial Organizations, Applied Microeconomics and Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: How Consumer Price Sensitivity Shapes Competition in the Pet Food Industry
Committee: Professor James Dana, Associate Professor Imke Reimers (Cornell), Professor Jun Ma

Ziyao Wang
Fields: Empirical IO, Development and Growth, and Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: Non-neutral Technological Change in Chinese Manufacturing
Committee: Professor James Dana (Co-Chair), Jordi Jaumandreu (Co-Chair), Assistant Professor Jianfei Cao, Associate Professor Santiago Caicedo
Bilge Erten, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.bilgeerten.com
Twitter: @BilgeErten