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Get to know our PhD candidates entering the job market and their job market paper titles, research fields, and faculty committees.

Contact Matthew Baum (political science) or Marcella Alsan (economics) with questions about our PhD in Public Policy (PPOL) and Political Economy and Government (PEG) candidates, and Nicole Tateosian about our PhD in Social Policy candidates.

 (economics track)

Job market paper title: The Birth of an Occupation: Professional Nursing in the Era of Public Health
Fields: Labor economics, health economics, economic history
Recommenders: Marcella Alsan (chair), Christopher Avery, ,

(economics track)

Job market paper title: Smoke Signals: Examining the Impact of Smoke Plumes on Hospital Care Use in the State of Oregon
Fields: Environmental and health economics
Recommenders: Marcella Alsan (chair), Joseph Aldy, Gordon Hanson

 (economics track)

Job market paper title: The Value of Partial Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Short-Time Work
Fields: Public economics, labor economics
Recommenders: Jeffrey Liebman (chair), , Mark Shepard

 (economics track)

Job market paper title: Selecting for Diverse Talent: Theory and Evidence (with ) 
Fields: Labor economics, AI & machine learning, public economics, economics of education
Recommenders: David Deming (chair), , , and  

 (economics track)

Job market paper title: The Trade-Off Between Social Tasks and Workplace Flexibility: Implications for Gender Gaps
Fields: Labor
Recommenders:  (chair), Michela Carlana, Gordon Hanson

(government track)

Job market paper title: The Impact of Welfare on Inter-group Relations: Caste-based Social Insurance and Social Integration in India
Fields: Comparative politics, political economy
Recommenders: (co-chair),  (co-chair), Gautam Nair, 

(government track)

Job market paper title:
Fields: Political economy, development economics
Recommenders: Rema Hanna (chair), , ,

(Economics Track)

Job market paper title: Social Ties and Residential Choice: Micro Evidence and Equilibrium Implications
Fields: Labor economics, political economy, public economics
Recommenders:  (chair), ,

(Government and social policy track)

Job Market Paper Title: Governing the Company Town (forthcoming at Stanford Law Review)
Research fields: Local government law, political/economic geography, historical institutionalism, democratic theory  
Recommenders: (chair), , , ,  

 (sociology and social policy track)

Job Market Paper Title: Job Search and Work Among Older U.S. Workers
Research fields: Work, inequality, social policy, demography, aging, retirement.  
Recommenders:  (co-chair),  (co-chair), , 

(Government and social policy track)

Job Market Paper Title: Social Programs and the Political Consequences of Extractive Industry Decline
Research fields: American politics, social policy, climate change, mixed methods 
Recommenders:  (chair), , ,

Recent PhD in PPOL, PEG, and Social Policy graduates have accepted academic positions at top institutions such as: Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard Business School, the London School of Economics and Political Science, New York University, Penn State University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Tufts University, University of California, San Diego, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.

Others pursued analyst or policy careers at the Federal Reserve Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, Millennium Challenge Corporation, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank, nongovernmental organizations, and in the private sector.