Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

Placement Director

John Winters
515-294-6263
winters1@iastate.edu


Job Market Candidates

Luiz Filippe Santana AdaoLuiz Philippe Santana Adao

Areas of Interest: Finance, Applied Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Job market paper: Hedge and Seek: What Q-Learning Can Teach Us About Hedging Behavior in Gold, Crude Oil, and Corn Futures

Adao resume | Major Professor: Sergio Lence

Adao personal website

luizadao@iastate.edu 



Jian ChenJian Chen

Postdoctoral Research Associate at CARD

Areas of Interest: Environmental and Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Renewable Energy Development, Agricultural Economics

Job market paper: Quantifying Land Use Tradeoffs Between Solar Energy and Agriculture: Effects of Baseline Attitudes and Information Treatments

Chen CV | Supervisor: Hongli Feng

Chen personal website

chenjian@iastate.edu 



Shengrong Hu

Shengrong Hu

Areas of Interest: Labor Economics, Regional Economics, Economics of Education, and Applied Microeconomics

Job market paper: Local Economic Impacts of Food Manufacturing Plant Closures in the Midwest

Hu CV | Major Professor: John Winters

Hu personal website

alexhu@iastate.edu 



Hyunwoo Jeong

Hyunwoo Jeong

Areas of Interest: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Job market paper: The Determinants of Job Search Behavior in the Unemployment Insurance System

Jeong CV | Major Professors: Peter Orazem, Brent Kreider

Jeong personal website

hjeong@iastate.edu 



Beomyun KimBeomyun Kim

Areas of Interest: Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics, and Taxation

Job market paper: Taxing the Sweet Tooth: The Differential Impact of Large Sales Tax Changes

B. Kim CV | Major Professor: Katherine Harris-Lagoudakis, John Winters

B. Kim personal website

beomyun@iastate.edu 



Seongyeob KimSeongyeob Kim

Areas of Interest: Industrial Organization, Market Design, Platform & Digital Economy

Job market paper: Product Purchasing Contest

S. Kim CV | Major Professor: Bertan Turhan, Donghyuk Kim

S. Kim personal website

sykim10@iastate.edu 



 Sanjukta Mitra

Sanjukta Mitra

Areas of Interest: Environmental Economics, Labor Economics, Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Job market paper: Toxic Tradeoffs: Impact of Environmental Regulations on Workplace Safety

Mitra CV | Major Professor: Brent Kreider, Irene Jacqz

Mitra personal website

smitra97@gmail.com 



Spandan Roy

Spandan Roy

Areas of Interest: Macroeconomics, Development, Structural Transformation, Taxation

Job market paper: Endogenous Human Capital Growth and Structural Transformation

Roy CV | Major Professor: Rajesh Singh

Roy personal website

spandanr@iastate.edu 



Mohamed Abdi Salat

Mohamed Abdi Salat

Areas of Interest: Macroeconomic Growth and Development, International Economics, Applied Econometrics

Job market paper: Fertility, traditional economic activities, and property rights

Salat CV | Major Professor: Juan Carlos Cordoba

Salat personal website

msalat@iastate.edu