Department of Moggridge

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

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Economics PhD Job Candidates

The following PhD candidates are seeking full time employment. For more information on any of these students, please contact either the students directly or Yuanyuan Wan (Placement Officer).

Abdelrahman Amer

Job Market Paper: Monopsony in Space: Commuting & Labor Market Power
Dissertation committee: Kory Kroft (supervisor), Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Clementine Van Effenterre, Ismael Mourifié
Research fields: Labor, Applied Microeconomics, Spatial Economics
Contact: abdelrahman.amer@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 647-778-6327
Website: https://amerabdelrahman.github.io

Devin Bissky Dziadyk

Job Market Paper: Little School on the Prairie: A Push for Structural Transformation
Dissertation committee: Stephan Heblich (supervisor), Shari Eli, Peter Morrow, Tianyi Wang
Research fields: Applied Microeconomics, Economic History, Urban Economics, Spatial Economics
Contact: devin.bisskydziadyk@mail.utoronto.ca
Website: https://bisskydziadyk.github.io

Benjamin Kenney Couillard

Job Market Paper: Build, Baby, Build: How Housing Shapes Fertility
Dissertation committee: Nathaniel Baum-Snow (supervisor), Victor Aguirregabiria, Stephan Heblich, Robert McMillan
Research fields: Urban Economics, Industrial Organization
Contact: ben.couillard@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 647-613-9316
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ben-couillard/home

Sean Elliott

Job Market Paper: Marriage, Cohabitation, and Separation: A Dynamic Approach to the Second Demographic Transition
Dissertation committee: Marcin Pęski (supervisor), Yao Luo, Aloysius Siow
Research fields: Economics of the Family, Economic Demography, Applied Econometrics
Contact: sean.elliott@mail.utoronto.ca
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/seanmtelliott/

Vanya Georgieva

Job Market Paper: Trade and Industrial Policy with Global Production Networks
Dissertation committee: Daniel Trefler (supervisor), Victor Aguirregabiria, Kevin Lim, Joseph Steinberg
Research fields: International Trade, Innovation
Contact: v.georgieva@mail.utoronto.ca
Website: https://www.Vanyageo.com

Billur Gorgulu

Job Market Paper: Optimal Memory Retention with Learning from Forgetting
Dissertation committee: Yoram Halevy (co-supervisor), Marcin Pęski (co-supervisor), Anne-Katrin Roesler, Colin Stewart
Research fields: Behavioral economics, Microeconomic theory, Experimental economics
Contact: billur.gorgulu@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 437-224-9642
Website: https://billurgorgulu.github.io

Mahmood Omar Yaser Haddara

Job Market Paper: Customer Accumulation, Firm Size, and Aggregate Productivity
Dissertation committee: Gueorgui Kambourov (co-supervisor), Burhanettin Kuruscu (co-supervisor), Murat Celik, Daniel Trefler
Research fields: Macroeconomics, International Trade
Contact: m.haddara@mail.utoronto.ca
Website: https://www.mhaddara.com

Tasnia Hussain

Job Market Paper: Optimal Carbon Policy under Carbon Inequality
Dissertation committee: Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (co-supervisor), Joseph Steinberg (co-supervisor), Gueorgui Kambourov
Research fields: Macroeconomics, Climate and Energy
Contact: tasnia.hussain@mail.utoronto.ca
Website: https://tasniahussain.github.io/

Sobia Jafry

Job Market Paper: Death and Taxes: Does the Lock-in Effect Fade when Capital Gains Must be Taxed at Death?
Dissertation committee: Michael Smart (supervisor), Claire Celerier, Michael Stepner
Research fields: Public Economics, Household Finance, Applied Microeconomics
Contact: sobia.jafry@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 647-515-0169
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sobiajafry

Bisma Haseeb Khan

Job Market Paper: Public Transit, Residential Sorting and Labor Supply: Evidence and Theory from Lahore’s Bus Rapid Transit System
Dissertation committee: Gustavo Bobonis (co-supervisor), Nicholas Li (co-supervisor), Stephan Heblich
Research fields: Applied microeconomics, development, labor, urban and spatial economics
Contact: bisma.khan@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 647-679-2003
Website: https://www.bismahaseebkhan.com/

Quinlan Lee

Job Market Paper: Nonlinear Forecast Error Variance Decompositions with Hermite Polynomials
Dissertation committee: Martin Burda (co-supervisor), Christian Gourieroux (co-supervisor), Yuanyuan Wan
Research fields: Econometrics, Time Series, Macroeconometrics, Financial Econometrics
Contact: qt.lee@mail.utoronto.ca
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/quinlanlee

Dina O'Brien

Job Market Paper: Independent media and political engagement in an autocracy: Experimental evidence from Kazakhstan
Dissertation committee: Ceren Baysan (co-supervisor), Gustavo Bobonis (co-supervisor), Arthur Blouin
Research fields: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Contact: dina.obrien@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 647-546-9090
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dinaobrien

Pegah Rahmani

Job Market Paper: Incomplete correlation-sensitive preferences: An axiomatic framework for decision making under uncertainty
Dissertation committee: Yoram Halevy (supervisor), Marcin Pęski, Colin Stewart
Research fields: Behavioral Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Decision Theory, Experimental Economics
Contact: pegah.rahmani@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 437-987-1545
Website: https://www.pegahrahmani.com/

Benjamin Denis Rommelaere

Job Market Paper: Carbon Flux from Wood Bioenergy Subsidies: A Structural Model of Forest Land Use
Dissertation committee: Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues (supervisor), Victor Aguirregabiria, Stephan Heblich, Adonis Yatchew
Research fields: Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Contact: b.rommelaere@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 647-907-8824
Website: https://benrommelaere.com/

Noah Henry Spencer

Job Market Paper: Neighbourhoods, Schools, and Funding: Evidence on the On-Reserve/Off-Reserve Indigenous Education Gap
Dissertation committee: Shari Eli (supervisor), Robert Gillezeau, Philip Oreopoulos, Michael Stepner
Research fields: Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education, Health Economics
Contact: noah.spencer@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 905-906-3836
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/noah-spencer/home

Dario Toman

Job Market Paper: Partisan Elections, Competition, and Candidate Selection: Evidence from School Boards
Dissertation committee: Gustavo Bobonis (supervisor), Ceren Baysan, Robert Gillezeau
Research fields: Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Contact: dario.toman@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 647-717-0767
Website: https://dariotoman.com/

Natalia Vigezzi

Job Market Paper: Local Labor Market Conditions at Arrival and the Economic Integration of Refugees and Their Children
Dissertation committee: Dwayne Benjamin (supervisor), Carolina Arteaga, Shari Eli
Research fields: Applied Microeconomics, Labour Economics, Health Economics, and Economics of Migration
Contact: natalia.vigezzi@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: 647-766-0308
Website: https://www.nataliavigezzi.com/

Irisa Zhou

Job Market Paper: Learning the Major-Industry Mismatch
Dissertation committee: Gueorgui Kambourov (co-supervisor), Ronald Wolthoff (co-supervisor), Sebastian Dyrda
Research fields: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
Contact: irisa.zhou@mail.utoronto.ca
Website: https://www.irisazhou.com/

Job Candidates affiliated with the Department

The following candidates, affiliated with the Department, are also seeking full-time employment. For more information on any of them, please contact the student(s) or their supervisor(s) directly.

Sijie Lin

Job Market Paper: Learning to Prompt: Human Adaptation in Production with Generative AI
Faculty contacts: Matthew Mitchell (co-supervisor), Heski Bar-Isaac (co-supervisor), Avi Goldfarb, Ambarish Chandra
Contact: sijie.lin@mail.utoronto.ca
Phone: +1 647-570-3578
Website: https://www.sijie-lin.com/

Siyuan Liu

Job Market Paper: Space and Cyberspace: The Impact of Food Delivery Platforms on Retail Real Estate
Faculty contacts: Victor Couture (co-supervisor), William Strange (co-supervisor), Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Yue Yu.
Contact: siyuann.liu@rotman.utoronto.ca
Phone: +1 437-363-7843
Website: http://www.siyuan-liu.com/