2024-2025 Job Market Candidates 

Placement Director- Toru Kitagawa, toru_kitagawa@brown.edu, 401-863-3688
Placement Manager-Angelica Spertini, angelica_spertini@brown.edu, 401-863-2465

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Mauricio M. Caceres Bravo

CV

Job Market Paper: The Effects of Prisons on Inmate Misconduct and Later Outcomes

References: Peter Hull, Jonathan Roth, Anna Aizer 

Fields: Applied microeconomics, crime, health, applied econometrics

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Jake Fabian

CV

Job Market Paper: The Price of Risk: Flood Insurance Premium Reform and Local Development

References: Brian Knight, Jesse Bruhn, Matthew Turner 

Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Urban Economics, Political Economy

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Aarushi Kalra 

CV

Job Market Paper: Social Media Algorithms versus User Preferences in a Large-Scale RCT

References: Andrew Foster, Peter Hull, Brian Knight, Stelios Michalopoulos, Daniel Björkegren

Fields: Development Economics, Digital Economies and Political Economy

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Ruchi Mahadeshwar

CV

Job Market Paper: Outside Options and the Supply of Sex Work

References: Andrew Foster, Bryce Steinberg, Matthew Pecenco

Fields: Development and Labor

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Michael Neubauer

CV

Job Market Paper: Race, Poverty, and the Changing American Suburbs

References: Matthew Turner, Andrew Foster, Peter Hull

Fields: Urban Economics, Development Economics, Environmental Economics

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Sergei Pankratev

CV

Job Market Paper: Divide and Conquer: Mental Models and Attention

References: Louis Putterman, Neil Thakral, Pedro Dal bo

Fields: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Cultural Economics, Political Economy, Growth

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Pedro Picchetti

CV

Job Market Paper: Instrumental Variables with Multiple Time Periods

References: Cristine Pinto, Jonathan Roth, Peter Hull

Fields: Econometrics, Causal Inference, Applied Microeconometrics

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María Mercedes Ponce de León

CV

Job Market Paper: The Role of Officer Gender in Responses to Domestic Violence

References: Brian Knight, Anna Aizer, Jesse Bruhn 

Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Gender Economics, Economics of Crime, Political Economy

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Luca Rizzotti

CV

Job Market Paper: Racial discrimination against crime victims: Evidence from police investigations of violent crime

References: Brian Knight, Peter Hull, Jesse Bruhn 

Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Crime, Political Economy, Labor Economics

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Yunyu Shu

CV

Job Market Paper: Informed Climate Adaptation: Input and Output Subsidies for Shaded Cocoa

References: Andrew Foster, Louis Putterman, Neil Thakral

Fields: Development Economics, Environmental Economics

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Alexander Yarkin 

CV

Job Market Paper: Does the “Melting Pot” Still Melt? Internet and Immigrants’ Integration

References: Oded Galor, Stelios Michalopoulos, David Weil, Giovanni Peri, Frédéric Docquier

Fields: Labor Economics, Political Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth

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