2026-2027 Job Market Candidates
Placement Director: Toru Kitagawa, toru_kitagawa@brown.edu
Graduate Program Manager: Angelica Spertini, angelica_spertini@brown.edu _____________________________________________________________________________________
Website: https://www.yuxianchen.com/
Fields: Family Economics, Economic Demography, Economic Growth, and Economic History
Advisors: David Weil, Yannis M. Ioannides (Tufts University), Andrew Foster
Job Market Paper: More Babies for the Buck? Universal versus Work-Contingent Child Care Subsidies
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Website: https://matthewdehaven.com/
Fields: Macroeconomics, International Finance, Macro-Finance
Advisors: Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Gauti B. Eggertsson, Amy Handlan
Job Market Paper: Source Matters: Demand vs. Supply Uncertainty in a Small Open Economy
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Website: https://mylesellis.com/
Fields: Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics, Finance
Advisors: Brian Knight (main), Pedro Dal Bó, Andrei Shleifer
Job Market Paper: Copycat Legislation: The Rising Influence of Special Interest Groups on American Policy
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Website: olivialattus.com
Fields: Macroeconomics, Finance, Monetary Policy, Corporate Finance, Risk Management
Advisors: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Amy Handlan, Gauti Eggertsson, Spencer Kwon
Job Market Paper: Hedging Interest Rate Risk: Evidence from U.S. Nonfinancial Firms
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Website: https://sites.google.com/brown.edu/heejunlee/
Fields: Econometrics, Machine Learning
Advisors: Susanne M. Schennach, Toru Kitagawa, and Soonwoo Kwon
Job Market Paper: Optimal contextual bandits under weak signals
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Website: https://www.seanmcculloch.com/
Fields: Urban/real estate, applied econometrics, industrial organization
Advisors: Matthew Turner (co-primary), Jonathan Roth (co-primary), Peter Hull, Joseph Gyourko
Job Market Paper: Valuing Neighborhood Amenities with Continuous Spatial Difference-in-Differences
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Website: https://mariamedellin.com/
Fields: Economic Growth and Political Economy
Advisors: Stelios Michalopoulos, David Weil, Andrew Foster
Job Market Paper: Career effects of violent shocks: Evidence from mass shootings in colleges and universities
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Website: www.katiemtrinh.com
Fields: Labor and Public Economics
Advisors: John Friedman, Peter Hull, Anna Aizer
Job Market Paper: Firms and the Child Penalty
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Website: https://jaeminwoo.com
Fields: Labor Economics, Political Economy, Family Economics, Health Economics
Advisors: Andrew Foster, David Weil, and Stelios Michalopoulos
Job Market Paper: Partners and Partisanship
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Website: https://juancyamin.github.io/
Fields: Econometrics and Development
Advisors: Toru Kitagawa, Soonwoo Kwon, and Jonathan Roth
Job Market Paper: Poverty Targeting with Imperfect Information
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Postdocs
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Website: https://www.alisonlodermeier.com/
Fields: Applied microeconomics, public economics, urban economics, labor economics
Advisors: Anna Aizer, Manasi Deshpande, Peter Hull, Winnie van Dijk
Job Market Papers: Racial Discrimination in Eviction Filing and Price Differentials in the Rental Housing Market