2025-2026 Job Market Candidates 

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

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Bruno Cardinale Lagomarsino 

CV

Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Finance

Job Market Paper: Enlisting Change: The Labor Market Consequences of Military Conscription

Advisors: Pedro Dal Bo, Jonathan Roth, Lorenzo Lagos, Neil Thakral

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Tarana Chauhan

CV

Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Development, Labor, Gender, Political Economy

Job Market Paper: Agricultural Credit and Women's Agency: Experimental Evidence from India.

Advisors: Andrew Foster, Christopher B. Barrett, Brian Dillon

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Max Garcia

CV

Fields: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics

Job Market Paper: 

Advisors: Raymond Fisman, Martin Fiszbein, Kevin Lang, Stelios Michalopoulos, Matthew Turner, Felipe Valencia

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Gabrielle Grafton

CV

Fields: Labor Economics, Economic History, Urban Economics

Job Market Paper: The Great Migration and Those Left Behind

Advisors: Anna Aizer, Matthew Turner, Santiago Pérez

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Bo-Yeon Jang

CV

Fields: Environmental Economics, Economic Growth, and Demography

Job Market Paper: Adaptation Under Evolving Climate Uncertainty

Advisors: David Weil, Matthew Turner, Adam Storeygard 

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Steven Lee

CV

Fields: Labor and Health Economics

Job Market Paper: Content Relatability and Standardized Testing: Evidence from Texas

Advisors: Anna Aizer, Peter Hull, John Friedman

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Gyungbae Park

CV

Fields: Econometrics Theory and Applied Econometrics

Job Market Paper: Policy Targeting with Market Equilibrium

Advisors: Toru Kitagawa, Susanne Schennach, Soonwoo Kwon

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Moritz Poll 

CV

Fields: Applied Microeconomics with focus on Development and Health Economics

Job Market Paper: Poverty alleviation at high frequency

Advisors: Andrew Foster, Peter Hull, Stelios Michalopoulos

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Matt Schaelling

CV

Fields: Applied Microeconomics with focus on Education and Urban Economics

Job Market Paper: Content Relatability and Standardized Testing: Evidence from Texas

Advisors: Matthew Turner, Peter Hull, John Friedman, Jesse Bruhn

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Finn Schuele

CV

Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Labor

Job Market Paper: The Phillips Curve and Beveridge Curve in a Multi-Sector Economy

Advisors: Gauti Eggertsson, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Stefano Eusepi,  Alexandre Gaillard

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Jiayue Zhang

CV

Fields: Development, Environment, Finance

Job Market Paper: Credit and Demand for Green Energy

Advisors: Andrew Foster, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Matthew Pecenco, Neil Thakral

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