Job Market Candidates
2026-2027
Dayanara Diaz Vargas
Fields: Health Economics (primary); Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: Healthcare Privatization and Patient Health: Evidence from Puerto Rico
Committee: Assistant Professor Shantanu Khanna (Chair), Associate Professor Mindy Marks, Professor James Dana
Chinekwu Paulin Enwonwu (Owoh)
Fields: Development Economics (primary); Labor Economics and Public Economics (secondary)
Job market paper: Digital Financial Inclusion and Infant Health: Evidence from Mobile Money Expansion in Kenya
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Committee: Associate Professor Mindy Marks (Chair), Associate Professor Bilge Erten, Assistant Professor Matthew B. Ross
Jae Wook Jung
Fields: Labor Economics, Development Economics, Empirical Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: Priced Out of Work, Into School: Minimum Wages and Schooling in Thailand’s Dual Labor Market
Committee: Assistant Professor Shantanu Khanna (Chair), Associate Professor Mindy Marks, Associate Professor Bilge Erten
Ben Roble
Field: Empirical Industrial Organization (primary); Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: Simulated Welfare Effects of the EU’s EV Transition
Committee: Professor James Dana (Chair), Assistant Professor Shantanu Khanna, Assistant Professor Andrés Shahidinejad.
AEA candidate profile: https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/candidates/candidate_profile_view.php?jcand=upS2tg3T4YHEQ1OTHUPPvNPv-0bIQUwk
Muhammad H Shabanpour
Fields: Industrial Organization, Pricing
Email | Website | CV
Cell: (617) 755 2083
Job Market Paper: Sale Pricing and Demand Dynamics
AEA Candidate Profile:
https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/candidates/candidate_profile_view.php?jcand=xdDcaXZkdRdDwlA6Dvudw9g7rCP009rV
Committee: Professor James Dana (Chair). Professor John Kwoka, Professor Ali Sharifkhani
Ziyao Wang
Fields: Empirical IO, Development and Growth,
Job Market Paper: From State to Market: Labor Market Power and Non-Neutral Productivity in Chinese Manufacturing
Committee: Professor James Dana, Jordi Jaumandreu (Boston University), 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