Department of Economics

Job Market Candidates

2023-2024 Job Market Candidates 

Placement Director- Toru Kitagawa, toru_kitagawa@brown.edu401-863-3688
Placement Manager-Angelica Spertini, angelica_spertini@brown.edu401-863-2465

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JBJose Belmar 

CV

Job Market Paper: Trade and Structural Change: Evidence from Colombia and the Panama Canal, 1851-1973

Primary Fields: Economic Growth, Economic History

References: Oded Galor, Stelios Michalopoulos, Pedro Dal Bo

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EBEmilia Brito Rebolledo

CV

Job Market Paper: The Caregiving Penalty: Caring for Sick Parents and the Gender Pay Gap

Primary Fields: Labor Economics, Health Economics and Gender Economics

References: Anna Aizer, John Friedman, Jesse Bruhn

 

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GBGiulia Buccione

CV

Job Market Paper: Religious Messaging and Adaptation to Water Scarcity: Evidence from Jordan

Primary Fields: Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Cultural Economics

References: Andrew Foster, Stelios Michalopoulos, Emily Oster, Brian Knight

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TCTommaso Coen

CV

Job Market Paper: Partial Identification of Welfare Effects in the Presence of Demand Frictions

Primary Fields: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics

References: Toru Kitagawa, Peter HullJonathan Roth

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FFFrancesco Ferlenga

CV

Job Market Paper: Symbols of oppression: The role of Confederate monuments in the Great Migration

Primary Fields: Political Economy, Public Finance, Cultural Economics, Economic History

References: Brian Knight, Stelios Michalopoulos, Pedro Dal BoVincenzo Galasso

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RFRicardo Fonseca

CV

Job Market Paper: Staggered Rollout for Innovation Adoption

Primary Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Market Design, and Experimental Economics

References: Bobak Pakzad-HursonRoberto SerranoJack Fanning

 

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JGJoao Garcia

CV

Job Market Paper: Does Free Childcare Improve Mothers’ Careers? Evidence from Sao Paulo

Primary Fields: Development, Environmental and Labor Economics 

References: Andrew Foster, Neil Thakral, Bryce Steinberg

 

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GGGiulia Gitti

CV

Job Market Paper: Nonlinearities in the Phillips Curve with Labor Market Tightness

Primary Fields: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

References: Gauti EggertssonPascal Michaillat, Amy Handlan

 

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SHSantiago Hermo

CV

Job Market Paper: Collective Bargaining Networks, Rent-sharing, and the Propagation of Shocks

Primary Fields: Labor Economics, Urban and Spatial Economics 

References: Jesse M. Shapiro, Peter Hull, Lorenzo Lagos, Neil Thakral 

 

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MKMasahiro Kubo

CV

Job Market Paper: French

Primary Fields: Comparative Development, Economic History, Development Economics, and Political Economy

References: Stelios Michalopoulos, Oded Galor, Louis Putterman

 

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ALAlison Lodermeier

CV

Job Market Paper: Racial Discrimination in Eviction Filing

Primary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Public Economics, Urban Economics, Labor Economics

References: Anna Aizer, Peter HullMatthew Pecenco

 

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MMMarcela Mello

CV

Job Market Paper: Religious Media, Conversion and its Socio-Economic Consequences: The Rise of Pentecostals in Brazil

Primary Fields: Development Economics and Applied Micro

References: Andrew Foster, Bryce Steinberg, Peter Hull

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GNGeetika Nagpal

CV

Job Market Paper: Scaling Heights: Affordability Implications of Zoning Deregulation in India

Primary Fields: Urban Economics, Development Economics

References: Andrew Foster, Matthew TurnerNick Tsivanidis, Bryce Steinberg

 

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HPBHenrique Pita Barros

CV

Job Market Paper: The Power of Dialogue: Forced Displacement and Social Integration amid an Islamist Insurgency in Mozambique

Primary Fields: Development Economics, Comparative Development and Political Economy

References: Oded Galor, Andrew FosterStelios MichalopoulosRobert Blair

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GRGiacomo Rubbini

CV

Job Market Paper: Mechanism Design without Rational Expectations

Primary Fields: Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics

References: Roberto Serrano, Geoffroy De Clippel, Kareen Rozen, Pedro Dal Bo

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ASAlessandro Sovera

CV

Job Market Paper: Decoding Local Public Finance: The Interplay of the Legislature and the Executive 

Primary Fields: Public Finance, Public Economics and Political Economy

References: Emily Oster, John Friedman, Brian Knight

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SSSara Spaziani

CV

Job Market Paper: Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing: Theory and Evidence from Two US States 

Primary Fields: Public Economics, Labor Economics, and Political Economy

References: John Friedman, Peter Hull, Brian Knight

 

 

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PVPatrick Vu

CV

Job Market Paper: Do Standard Error Corrections Exacerbate Publication Bias?

Primary Field: Econometrics, Development Economics

References:  Jonathan RothToru Kitagawa, Peter Hull

 

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AZAlex Zhou

CV

Job Market Paper: The Impact of Intra-household Information Asymmetry on Labor Productivity: An Experimental Study in Cambodia

Primary Fields:  Development Economics, Labor Economics

Secondary Fields: Gender, Behavioral Economics

References: Andrew Foster, Louis Putterman, Lorenzo Lagos, Bryce Steinberg, Neil Thakral 

 

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