Our students graduating from Brown and our training program are hired into both academic and private sector positions. In the last five years, our students secured tenure-track placements at excellent institutions that include University of Chicago, Yale University, Stanford University, Tufts University, Ohio State University, and Johns Hopkins University, and postdoctoral placements at Princeton’s Office of Population Research. Here we highlight our recent alumni.
Featured Alumnus
Adam Storeygard '12, former NICHD-funded PSTC trainee, received his PhD in Economics in May 2012 and starts as Assistant Professor of Economics at Tufts University in fall 2012. Adam's research is in urban and development economics, with particular interests in transportation, urban growth and spatial analysis and a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. He is also examining the impact of climate variability on crimes against women in India with Brown alumna and former PSTC trainee Sheetal Sekhri (Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Virginia). While at Brown, Adam worked with PSTC Associates Vernon Henderson and David Weil to measure economic growth using satellite data on night lights. They developed a statistical framework using these data to augment official income growth measures and their estimates differ from official data by up to three percentage points annually. This research was published in the American Economic Review and received international press coverage including The Economist and blogs of the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times among others. To learn more about Adam's experience as a PSTC trainee, see his student testimonial.
2012 PSTC Trainee Placements
- Rachel Goldberg (Sociology) — Postdoctoral Fellow, Office for Population Research, Princeton University
- Jacob Goldston (Economics) — Assistant Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina
- Moshi Herman (Sociology) — Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
- Daeho Kim (Economics) — Assistant Professor of Economics, Ohio State University
- Yong Suk Lee (Economics) — Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College
- Adam Storeygard (Economics) — Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
- Jing Song (Sociology) — Research Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Isabel Tecu (Economics) — Senior Associate, Charles River Associates
- Ishani Tewari (Economics) — Postdoc, Yale School of Management
- Hongwei Xu (Sociology) — Faculty Research Fellow, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
2012 PSTC-Affiliated Postdoc Placements
- Bianca Dahl — Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
- Megan Klein Hattori — Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Kenneth Maes — Assistant Professor of Biocultural Anthropology, Oregon State University