Kyutaro Matsuzawa

Job Market Paper: "Pretextual Stop Restriction & Policing: Evidence from Los Angeles"

Fields: Applied Microeconomics; Labor Economics; Health Economics; Economics of Crime 

Committee: Benjamin Hansen (chair), Edward Rubin, Kathleen Mullen, and Kristen Bell (Law) 

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Puja Parmar

Job Market Paper: "Impact of savings groups on household welfare outcomes in Uganda"

Fields: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Econometric Analysis

Committee: Alfredo Burlando (Chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Michael Kuhn, Stephen Wooten (Food Studies)

Website

Emmett Reynier

Job Market Paper: "The Distributional Impacts of Climate Change across U.S. Local Labor Markets" 

Fields: Environmental and Public Economics 

Committee: Mark Colas (co-chair), Edward Rubin (co-chair), Eric Zou, and Nicole Ngo (PPPM)

Website

Mingyu "Kevin" Song

Job Market Paper: "Population Policies, Pensions and Below-Replacement Fertility Rate"

Fields: Growth and Development, Demography and International Trade

Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Alfredo Burlando, David Evans, and Youchang Yu (Finance)

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Connor Wiegand

Job Market Paper: "Time-Varying Time Preferences"

Fields: Behavioral Economics, Game Theory, Experiments, Data Science

Committee: Michael Kuhn (Chair), Van Kolpin, Jiabin Wu, and John Clithero (Marketing)

Website

Micaela Wood

Job Market Paper: "When Panic Buying is Rational: A Structural Approach to Emergency Supply Purchases"

Fields: Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization

Committee: 
Keaton Miller (Chair), Michael Kuhn, Edward Rubin, and John Chalmers (Finance) 

Website

2023-24 PhD Placements

Tanner Bivins

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Frostburg State University
• Dissertation: "Essays on Trust and Polarization in the Modern Era"
• Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Political Economy, and Game Theory
• Committee: Jonathan Davis (chair), Benjamin Hansen, Keaton Miller, and Neil O’Brian (Political Science)

Boyoon Chang

• Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Irving Institute of Energy and Society, Dartmouth
• Dissertation: "Essays on Competition in the Tech Industry and Platform Economies"
• Fields: Empirical Industrial Organization, Competitions in Digital Platforms, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Keaton Miller (chair), David Evans, Eric Zou, and Z. Jay Wang (Finance)

Pramod Dudhe

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Economics and Development Area Studies, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
• Dissertation: "Marriage Markets in Developing Countries"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Development, Macroeconomic-development, Demography and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Alfredo Burlando, David Evans, and Lesley Jo Weaver (Global Studies)

Philip Economides

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Texas Tech University
• Dissertation: "Essays on Maritime Transport and International Trade"
• Job Market Paper: "Unconventional Protectionism in Containerized Shipping"
• Fields: International Economics, International Trade, and Transport Economics
• Committee: Woan Foong Wong (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Anca Cristea, and Nicole Ngo (Planning, Public Policy and Management)

Evan Hart

• Dissertation: "Sticky Information and Economic Dynamics"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Statistics, and Time-Series Econometrics
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (co-chair), Bruce McGough (co-chair), George Evans, and Roberto Gutierrez (Finance)

Steven Holloway

• Initial Placement: Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, College of Business, Michigan Technological University
• Dissertation: "Essays on Human Behavior" 
• Fields: Behavioral and Environmental 
• Committee: Michael Kuhn (chair), Ed Rubin, Jon Davis, and Ryan Light (Sociology)

Giorgi Nikolaishvili

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University
• Dissertation: "Essays on Monetary Transmission and Banking"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics, and Banking
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (chair), David Evans, George Evans, Jose Carreno, and Youchang Wu (Finance)

Colleen O'Briant

• Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Arkansas
• Dissertation: "Essays in Econometrics and Machine Learning"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Reinforcement Learning, Simulation Modeling, and Industrial Organization
• Committee: Keaton Miller (chair), David Evans, Mark Colas, and Brittany Erickson (Computer Science)

Tamara Ren

• Initial Placement: Economist, ISO New England
• Dissertation: "Essays on Discrimination and Information Technology"
• Fields: Experimental, Behavioral, Education, and Labor
• Committee: Jonathan Davis (chair), Michael Kuhn, Kathleen Mullen, and Krystale Littlejohn (Sociology)

SM Shihab Siddiqui

• Initial Placement: Principal Consultant, Opinion Dynamics
• Dissertation: "Explorations into the Fertility and Female Labor Force Transition in Bangladesh"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Development, Macroeconomics, and Demography
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair), Alfredo Burlando (co-chair), Anca Cristea, and Ben Yang (Operations and Business Analytics)

Jacob Thompson

• Initial Placement: Instructional Assistant Professor of Economics, Illinois State University
• Dissertation: "Essays in Behavioral Macroeconomics"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, and Bayesian Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce McGough (Chair), Jeremy Piger, David Evans, and Rob Ready (Finance)

Brock Wilson

• Initial Placement: Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska-Anchorage
• Dissertation: "Essays in Labor Economics"
• Fields: Labor Economics, Public Economics, and Econometrics
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Michael Kuhn, Keaton Miller, and Laura Leete (Planning, Public Policy and Management)

2022-23 PhD Placements

Ethan Holdahl

• Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
• Dissertation: "Theoretical and Experimental Investigations into the Evolution of Populations and their Behavior"
• Fields: Game Theory, Experimental, and Environmental Economics
• Committee: Jiabin Wu (chair), Anne van den Nouweland, Van Kolpin, and Mikhail Myagkov (Political Science)

Hanyuan “Harrison” Huang

• Initial Placement: Research Associate, China Telecom
• Dissertation: "The Multifaceted Nature of Identity: Cognitive Constraints, Economic Development, and Social Networks"
• Fields: Game Theory, Cultural Economics, Social Structures, and Network Theory 
• Committee: Jiabin Wu (chair), Benjamin Hansen, Jonathan Davis, and Thanh Nguyen (CIS)

Promise Kamanga

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Hamilton College
• Dissertation: "The Trade Impact of Diplomatic Relations in Developing Countries: The Choice between China or Taiwan"
• Fields: International Trade, Macroeconomics, and Development
• Committee: Anca Cristea (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Woan Foong Wong, and Yeling Tan (Political Science)

Robert McDonough

• Initial Placement: Teaching Assistant Professor, Economics Department, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• Dissertation: "Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics"
• Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Labor, Education, and Crime
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Mark Colas, Edward Rubin, and Chris Sinclair (Mathematics)

Garrett Stanford

• Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics, University of Georgia
• Dissertation: "The Complexities of Public Goods for a Diverse Public: Evidence from Gun Laws, Climate Policy, and Police Transparency"
• Fields: Environmental, Criminal Justice, and Experimental
• Committee: Edward Rubin (chair), Trudy Ann Cameron, Jonathan Davis, and Bryce Newell (Journalism and Communication)

Shan “Evie” Zhang

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics in the Strome College of Business, Old Dominion University
• Dissertation: "Economics of Environmental and Public Health Policies"
• Fields: Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Eric Zou (chair), Trudy Ann Cameron, Grant McDermott, and Kory Russel (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies)

2021-22 PhD Placements

Youssef Ait Benasser

• Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Reed College
• Dissertation: "Trade Policy Irregularities: Reversals, Uncertainty, and Diversion"
• Fields: International Economics, Applied Econometrics and Financial Economics
• Committee: Anca Cristea (chair), Jeremy Piger, Bruce Blonigen, and Yeling Tan (Political Science)

Cory Briar

• Initial Placement: Research Associate II, Washington State Institute for Public Policy
• Dissertation: "Essays on Gentrification"
• Fields: Urban Economics, Housing, and Public Policy
• Committee: Mark Colas (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Keaton Miller, and James Buckley (Historic Preservation)

Saurabh Gupta

• Initial Placement: Tax Economist, Oregon Department of Revenue’s Research Section
• Dissertation: "Essays on India’s Economic Development"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization, and Macroeconomics
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Anca Cristea, Alfredo Burlando, and Nagesh Murthy (Business)

Sichao Jiang

• Initial Placement: Pricing Manager, T-Mobile
• Dissertation: "Essays on Industrial Organization and Health Economics"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization, and Game Theory
• Committee: Keaton Miller (co-chair), Wes Wilson (co-chair), Edward Rubin, and Nagesh Murthy (Business)

Zachary Kiefer

• Initial Placement: Financial Economist Fellow, Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
• Dissertation: "Three Essays on International Internet Communication Costs: Measurement and Implications for International Economic Flows"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics and Growth/Development
• Committee: Anca Cristea (co-chair), Woan Foong Wong (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen, and Reza Rejaie (Computer and Information Science)

Connor Lennon

• Initial Placement: Data Scientist/Econometrician with Bayer Pharmaceutical, Colaberry
• Dissertation: "Essays in Causal Machine Learning and Environmental Economics"
• Fields: Microeconometrics, Machine Learning, and Environmental
• Committee: Glen Waddell (co-chair), Edward Rubin (co-chair), Grant McDermott, and Humphrey Shi (Computer and Information Science)

Joe Mitchell-Nelson

• Initial Placement: Research Analyst, Oregon Health Authority
• Dissertation: "Essays on Development and Health Economics"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics and Growth/Development
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Alfredo Burlando, Shankha Chakraborty, and Richard York (Sociology)

John Morehouse

• Initial Placement: Senior Quantitative Analyst, Freddie Mac
• Dissertation: "Environmental Policy Across (Terrestrial) Space"
• Fields: Labor and Environmental
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), Mark Colas (co-chair), Keaton Miller, Edward Rubin, and Grant Jacobsen (PPPM)

Jenni Putz

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Eastern Michigan University
• Dissertation: "Essays in Education Economics"
• Fields: Education, Applied Microeconomics and Environmental
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Jonathan Davis, Edward Rubin, and David Liebowitz (Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership)

Kyle Raze

• Initial Placement: Economist, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Dissertation: "Essays in Applied Microeconomics"
• Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Labor Economics, and Public Economics
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Michael Kuhn, Jonathan Davis, and David Liebowitz (Education)

Melissa Wilson

• Initial Placement: Economist in the Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Housing Finance Agency
• Dissertation: Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement
• Fields: Applied Econometrics and Labor
• Committee: Ben Hansen (chair), Jonathan Davis, Eric Zou, and Kristen Bell (Law)

2020-21 PhD Placements

Luciana Etcheverry

• Initial Placement: Gender and Diversity Specialist in the Gender and Diversity Inclusion Division, Inter-American Development Bank
• Dissertation: "Essays on Development and Labor Economics"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Development, and Labor Economics
• Committee: Alfredo Burlando (Chair), Glen Waddell, Michael Kuhn, and Kristin Yarris (International Studies)

Brett Garcia

• Initial Placement: Associate, Positive Competition, Brussels, Belgium
• Dissertation: "Essays in Transport Economics"
• Fields: Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wesley Wilson (chair), Keaton Miller, Jeremy Piger, and Anne Parmigiani (Management)

Kendall Houghton

• Initial Placement: Economist, Demographic Research Area of the Center for Economics Studies, US Census Bureau
• Dissertation: "Essays in Public and Labor Economics"
• Fields: Public and Labor Economics
• Committee: Ben Hansen (co-chair), Caroline Weber (co-chair), Grant McDermott, and Laura Leete (School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management)

Amna Javed

• Initial Placement: Gender Research Specialist, South Asia Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
• Dissertation: "Three Essays on Gender in South Asia"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics and Development Economics
• Committee: Alfredo Burlando (chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Jiabin Wu, and Lamia Karim (Anthropology)

Michael Jerman

• Initial Placement: Instructor of Economics, Oregon State University
• Dissertation: "Empirical Methods for Low-quality Data"
• Fields: Environmental
• Committee: Alfredo Burlando (co-chair), Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty, and Dejing Dou (Computer and Information Science)

Mary Kopriva

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Health Care Economics, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska-Anchorage
• Dissertation: "Essays in Labor and Health"
• Fields: Labor and Environmental
• Committee: Ben Hansen (co-chair), Edward Rubin (co-chair), Jonathan Davis, Alfredo Burlando, and Clare Evans (Sociology)

Chandler Lester

• Initial Placement: Associate Analyst, Congressional Budget Office
• Dissertation: "Adaptive Learning in Continuous-Time: Techniques and Theory"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Time-Series Econometrics and Learning
• Committee: Bruce McGough (chair), George Evans, David Evans, Peter Ralph (Mathematics & Biology)

Alex Li

• Initial Placement: Quantitative Analyst, State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Madison, Wisconsin
• Dissertation: "Essays on Agent Heterogeneity and Adaptive Learning"
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Bruce McGough (co-chair), David Evans, and Robert Ready (Finance)

Xiang “Ivy” Li

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Butler University
• Dissertation: "Essays on High-frequency Macroeconomic Monitoring"
• Job Market Paper: "Nowcasting Business Cycle Phases with High- and Mixed- Frequency Data"
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (chair), George Evans, David Evans, and Thien Huu Nguyen (Computer Science)

Thomas Stockwell

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Sykes College of Business, University of Tampa
• Dissertation: "Essays on the Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy"
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Time-Series Econometrics
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (chair), George Evans, David Evans, and Youchang Wu (Finance)

2019-2020 PhD Placements

Curtis Dlouhy

• Initial Placement: Senior Economist, Oregon Public Utilities Commission
• Dissertation: "Three Essays in Fossil Fuel Energy Choice"
• Fields: Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Keaton Miller, Van Kolpin, and Rob Ready (Finance)

Hoa Duong

• Dissertation: "Labor and Financial Market Frictions in Developing Economies"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Development, and International Economics
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair), Anca Cristea (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen, and Jiao Zhang (Behavioral Sciences)

Ayesha Khalid

• Initial Placement: Economist 4, Oregon Employment Department (Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Division)
• Dissertation: "Human Capital Accumulation in a Developing-country Context: Gender Disparities, Concurrent and Lagged Effects of Air Pollution and Climate Change"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Environmental, and Development Economics
• Committee: Trudy Cameron (chair), Alfredo Burlando, Eric Zou, and Nicole Ngo (Public Policy)

Maxwell Mindock

• Initial Placement: Healthcare Economist at the Lewin Group
• Dissertation: "Essays on the Judiciary"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Public, and Labor
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Michael Kuhn, Edward Rubin, and Kristen Bell (Law)

Anna Miromanova

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and International Business at Sam Houston State University
• Dissertation: "Essays in International Trade and Russian Trade Policy"
• Fields: International Trade, Development, and Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Anca Cristea (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Woan Foong Wong, and Mikhail Myagkov (Political Science)

Toby Sytsma

• Initial Placement: Associate Economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
• Dissertation: "Essays on International Trade"
• Fields: International Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Industrial Organization
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Wesley Wilson (co-chair), Anca Cristea, and Michael Russo (Management)

2018-19 PhD Placements

Nathan Biemiller

• Initial Placement: Food & Drug Administration
• Dissertation: "Essays in Behavioral Economics"
• Fields: Behavioral, Applied Econometrics, and Labor
• Committee: Mike Kuhn (chair), Ben Hansen, Jiabin Wu, and Aaron Gullickson (Sociology)

Ben Brennan

• Initial Placement: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (lecturer)
• Dissertation: "Essays on Nominal GDP Targeting"
• Fields: Macro-economics, Monetary Policy, and Adaptive Learning
• Committee: Bruce McGough (chair), George Evans, Mark Thoma, and Rob Ready (Finance)

Christian Imboden

• Initial Placement: Georgia State University (visiting assistant professor)
• Dissertation: "Essays in Public Finance"
• Fields: Public and  Labor
• Committee: Caroline Weber (co-chair), Van Kolpin (co-chair), Jeremy Piger, and David Guenther (Accounting)

Drew McNichols

• Initial Placement: San Diego State-UC San Diego (postdoc)
• Dissertation: "Essays in Labor Economics"
• Fields: Applied Micro-econometrics, Labor, Health, and Public
• Committee: Ben Hansen (chair), Glen Waddell, Mike Kuhn, and Aaron Gullickson (Sociology)

Simeon Minard

• Initial Placement: Amazon
• Dissertation: "Essays on Synthetic Control and Causal Inference"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics and Labor Economics
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Jeremy Piger, Benjamin Hansen, and David Wagner (Management)

Ryan Walch

• Initial Placement: University of Alberta, Canada (postdoc)
• Dissertation: "Essays on the Economics of Carbon Pricing"
• Fields: Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Ben Hansen, Grant McDermott, and Ronald Mitchell (Political Science)

Will Wheeler

• Initial Placement: St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI (assistant professor)
• Dissertation: "Essays in Nonmarket Valuation"
• Fields: Environmental Economics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Wesley Wilson, Grant McDermott, and Grant Jacobsen (Planning, Public Policy, and Management)

 Kyle Wilson

• Initial Placement: Duke University, Durham, NC (visiting assistant professor)
• Dissertation: "Economic Effects of Water Scarcity"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Environmental, and Development
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Alfredo Burlando, Edward Rubin, and Kory Russel (Environmental Studies)

Nick Wood

• Initial Placement: Army Corps of Engineers
• Dissertation: "Essays in Industrial Organization"
• Fields: Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wesley Wilson (chair), Keaton Miller, Van Kolpin, and Joshua Gordon (Business)

2017-2018 PhD Placements

Nate Adams

• Initial Placement: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC
• Dissertation: "Essays in Risk Taking, Belief Formation, and Self-Deception"
• Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Labor, Experimental, and Behavioral
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Mike Kuhn, William Harbaugh, and William Terry (Political Science)

Jean Falconer

• Initial Placement: Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
• Dissertation: "Essays on Fiscal Policy"
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (chair), Mark Thoma, Bruce McGough, and David Guenther (Accounting)

Erin Hunt

• Initial Placement: Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• Dissertation: "Macroeconomic Consequences of Social Security Policy Uncertainty"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Public Economics, and Behavioral Economics
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Bruce McGough, Shankha Chakraborty, and Brandon Julio (Finance)

Nigel McClung

• Initial Placement: Bank of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
• Dissertation: "Essays in Regime Switching, Policy Interactions, and Adaptive Learning"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary, and Learning
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Bruce McGough (co-chair), Jeremy Piger, and Wenbo Wu (Operations and Business Analytics)

Rosie Mueller

• Initial Placement: Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
• Dissertation: "Essays in Environmental Economics"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Environmental, and Health
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), Caroline Weber (co-chair), Glen Waddell, and Grant Jacobsen (Planning, Public Policy, and Management)

Tristan Nighswander

• Initial Placement: Reed College, Portland, OR
• Dissertation: "Behavioral Biases in General Equilibrium: Implications for Wealth Inequality and Human Capital"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Behavioral, Wealth Inequality, and Human Capital
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Mike Kuhn, David Evans, and Laura Leete (Planning, Public Policy, and Management)

Amani Rashid

• Initial Placement: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
• Dissertation: "Essays in Child Welfare"
• Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Labor, Health, and Public
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Caroline Weber, Ben Hansen, and Jeff Todahl (Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department)

2016-2017 PhD Placements

Erica Birk

• Initial Placement: Associate, Analysis Group, Menlo Park, CA
• Dissertation: "Essays in Health and Labor"
• Fields: Applied Microeconometrics, Labor, Health, and Experimental
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Ben Hansen, Michael Kuhn, and Aaron Gullickson (Sociology)

Brian Dombeck

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
• Dissertation: "The Effects of News Shocks and Bounded Rationality on Macroeconomic Volatility"
• Fields: Applied Structural Macroeconomics, Bounded Rationality, and Information Choice
• Committee: Bruce McGough (co-chair), George Evans (co-chair), Jeremy Piger, and Arafaat Valiani (History)

Felix Friedt

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
• Dissertation: "International Trade and Transportation"
• Fields: International Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Wes Wilson (co-chair), Anca Cristea, Jeremy Piger, and Nagesh Murthy (Department of Operations and Business Analytics)

Taylor McKenzie

• Initial Placement: Cybersecurity Researcher, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM
• Dissertation: "Railroads, Regulation, Efficiency, and Competition"
• Fields: Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Van Kolpin, Jeremy Piger, Keaton Miller, and Diane Del Guercio (Finance)

Tuan Nguyen

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Central College, Pella, IA
• Dissertation: "Three Essays in Public Economics"
• Fields: Public, Crime, and Health
• Committee: Ben Hansen (chair), Glen Waddell, Caroline Weber, and Craig Parsons (Political Science)

Rebekah Selby

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Emporia State University, Emporia KS
• Dissertation: "Essays on Health and Development Economics"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Economic Growth and Development
• Committee: Ben Hansen (chair), Alfredo Burlando, Van Kolpin, and Ryan Light (Sociology)

2015-2016 PhD Placements

Adam Check

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN
• Dissertation: "Regime Switching and the Monetary Economy"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, and Macroeconomics
• Committee: Jeremy Piger (chair), Bruce McGough, George Evans, and Craig Rolling (Business)

Colin Corbett

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Bradley University, Peoria IL
• Dissertation: "Preferences for Effort and Its Applications"
• Fields: Experimental, Labor, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: William Harbaugh (chair), Van Kolpin, Michael Kuhn, and Sanjay Srivastava (Psychology)

Chad Fulton

• Initial Placement: Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington D.C.
• Dissertation: "Sectoral Prices and Price-Setting"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Bruce McGough (co-chair), Jeremy Piger, and Stephen McKeon (Finance)

Sacha Gelfer

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Bentley University, Waltham MA
• Dissertation: "Incorporating High-Dimensional Data Vectors into Structural Macroeconomic Models"
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce McGough (co-chair), Jeremy Piger (co-chair), George Evans, and Christopher Bone (Geography)

Sonja Kolstoe

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Salisbury University, Salisbury MD
• Dissertation: "Essays on the Recreational Value of Avian Biodiversity"
• Fields: Environmental, Public, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Ralph Mastromonaco, Wes Wilson, Scott Bridgham (Biology), and Dan Gleason

Michael Thacker

• Initial Placement: Economist, Laurits R. Christensen Associates, Inc., Madison WI
• Dissertation: "Essays on the Economics of Telephones and Evolving Technologies"
• Fields: Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Jeremy Piger, Van Kolpin, and Michael Russo (Management)

John Voorheis

• Initial Placement: Economist, US Census Bureau, Suitland MD
• Dissertation: "Essays on Income and Environmental Inequality"
• Fields: Public, Environmental, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Peter Lambert, Caroline Weber, and Ronald Mitchell (Political Science)

Joe Wyer

• Initial Placement: Economist, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission, Washington D.C.
• Dissertation: "Essays on Choice with Spatial Heterogeneity"
• Fields: Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Anne van den Nouweland, Trudy Ann Cameron, and Rebecca Lewis (PPPM)

2014-2015 PhD Placements

Gulcan Cil

• Initial Placement: Post-Doctoral Research Affiliate, US Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR
• Dissertation: "Effects of Behavioral and Environmental Factors on Infant Health"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Environmental, and Health
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Ben Hansen, and Ralph Mastromonaco

Ben Fitch-Fleischmann

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH
• Dissertation: "Essays on Economic Development and Climate Change"
• Fields: Development, Environmental, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), Glen Waddell (co-chair), and Alfredo Burlando

Logan Lee

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics, Grinnell College, Grinnell IA
• Dissertation: "Essays in Labor Economics"
• Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Labor, Health, and Trade
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Ben Hansen, and Anca Cristea

Jason Query

• Initial Placement: Associate at PwC, Irvine CA
• Dissertation: "The Impact of Transportation Costs and Trade Barriers on International Trade Flows"
• Fields: International Trade and Public Economics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Wes Wilson (co-chair), and Anca Cristea

Allison Roehling

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and Management, DePauw University, Greencastle IN
• Dissertation: Exchange Rate Fluctuations, Currency Invoicing, and International Trade
• Fields: International Trade and Macroeconomics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Nicholas Sly, and Jeremy Piger

Jonathan Thompson

• Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, Salem OR
• Dissertation: "Culture and Economic Growth"
• Fields: Econometrics, Development and Growth
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Chris Ellis, Ben Hansen, and David Levin (Mathematics)

Matthew Wilson

• Initial Placement: Temporary Assistant Professor of Economics, Truman State University, Kirksville MO
• Dissertation: "Monetary Sunspots, Preference Discovery Costs, and the Equity Premium"
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Behavioral Economics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Bruce McGough (co-chair), William Harbaugh, and Ulrich Mayr (Psychology)

 2013-2014 PhD Placements

Jeffrey Allen

• Initial placement: Bentley University, South Waltham, MA
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Growth & Development, and International
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), George Evans, and Bruce McGough

C. Richard Higgins

• Initial placement: Colgate University
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Econometrics
• Committee: Mark Thoma (chair), Jeremy Piger, and Bruce McGough

Kristian Holden

• Initial placement: Calder Center, American Institutes for Research, Washington DC
• Fields: Labor and Education
• Committee: Glen Waddell (co-chair), Jason Lindo (co-Chair), and Benjamin Hansen

Daniel Mahoney

• Initial placement: Analysis Group, San Francisco
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Econometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Van Kolpin, and Anca Cristea

Alex Monte Calvo

• Initial placement: Analysis Group, Denver
• Fields: Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, and Bayesian Econometrics
• Committee: Van Kolpin (chair), Jeremy Piger, and Ralph Mastromonaco

Tyler Schipper

• Initial placement: University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Development, and International
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Bruce McGough, and Nicholas Sly

2012-2013 PhD Placements

Harold Cuffe

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Victoria University
• Dissertation: "Three Essays in Labor Economics"
• Fields: Labor, Health, Education, and Crime
• Committee: Glen Waddell (co-chair), Jason Lindo (co-chair), and Benjamin Hansen

Christopher Gibbs

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of New South Wales
• Dissertation: "Heterogeneous Expectations, Forecast Combination, and Economic Dynamics"
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Time-Series Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Bruce McGough, and Jeremy Piger

Lance Kaufmann

• Initial placement: Oregon Public Utility Commission
• Dissertation: "Three Essays on Governance Structure in the Hospital Industry"
• Fields: Industrial Organization and Health
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Van Kolpin, and Benjamin Hansen

Isaac Swensen

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Montana State University
• Dissertation: "Essays on the Economics of Health and Education"
• Fields: Labor, Health, Education, and Public
• Committee: Glen Waddell (co-chair), Jason Lindo (co-chair), and Benjamin Hansen

2011-2012 PhD Placements

Thomas Groll

• Initial placement: Lecturer, Columbia University
• Dissertation: "The Economics of Commercial Lobbying"
• Fields: Public Economics, Political Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Chris Ellis (chair), Shankha Chakraborty, and Nicholas Sly

Donghyun (Don) Lee

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Colby College
• Dissertation: "Essays on Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology, and Frictional Costs"
• Fields: International trade, Applied Econometrics, and Macroeconomics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Nick Sly, and Wes Wilson

Hui-Hsuan (Sandy) Tang

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, National Taipei University
• Dissertation: "Essays on the Economics of Higher Education"
• Fields: Economics of Education, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair), Glen Waddell (co-chair),and Benjamin Hansen

Matthew P. Taylor

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Montana
• Dissertation: "Risk Aversion and Information Acquisition Across Real and Hypothetical Settings"
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), William Harbaugh (co-chair), and Van Kolpin

Brian Vander Naald

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Southeast
• Dissertation: "Essays in Environmental and Public Economics"
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Public Economics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Jason Lindo, and Ben Hansen

2010-2011 PhD Placements

John Kandrac

• Initial placement: Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Dissertation: "Essays on the Role of Financial Intermediaries in the Transmission of Monetary Policy"
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Mark Thoma (chair), Jeremy Piger, and Shankha Chakraborty

Mark Ryan

• Initial placement: Central Intelligence Agency
• Current position: Economist, Mark G. Anderson Consultants, Inc. (MGAC)
• Dissertation: "A Satisficing Model of Consumer Behavior"
• Committee: Van Kolpin (chair), Chris Ellis, and Jeremy Piger

Sean Severe

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Drake University
• Dissertation: "Monetary Policy Issues Arising from Bank Concentration"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Growth and Development, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Mark Thoma (co-chair), Wes Wilson (co-chair), and Shankha Chakraborty

Toni Sipic

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Central Washington University
• Dissertation: "Political Economy of Environmental Disasters and Voluntary Approaches in Environmental Policy"
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Political Economy, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, and Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Wesley Wilson, and Benjamin Hansen

Peter Williams

• Initial placement: Economist, Bonneville Power Administration
• Dissertation: "Structural Change and Economic Development"
• Fields: Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, and Trade
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Bruce Blonigen, and Chris Ellis

2009-2010 PhD Placements

Anna-Maria Aksan

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Fairfield University
• Dissertation: "Three Essays in Disease and Economic Development"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Economic Development, and International Economics
• Committee: Shankha Chakraborty (chair), Bruce Blonigen,and Peter Lambert

Eric Duquette

• Initial placement: Economist, USDA Economic Research Service
• Dissertation: "Choice Difficulty and Subjective Risk Perceptions in Environmental Economics"
• Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, and Neuroeconomics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), William Harbaugh, and Jason Lindo

Silke Friedrich

• Initial placement: Economist, IFO Institute
• Dissertation: "Essays on Political Economy Issues"
• Fields: Public Economics and International Economics
• Committee: Chris Ellis (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), and Glen Waddell

Eric Gaus

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Ursinus College
• Dissertation: "Issues in Macroeconomic Models with Learning"
• Fields: International Economics and Macroeconomics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Jeremy Piger (co-chair), and Shankha Chakraborty

Andrea Giusto

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
• Dissertation: "Heterogeneity Issues in Macroeconomics"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Monetary Economics, and International Economics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair), and Van Kolpin

Chang Yong Kim

• Initial placement: Adjunct Professor, University of Oregon
• Dissertation: "The Exchange Rate Effects on the Different Types of Foreign Direct Investments"
• Fields: Macroeconomics and International Economics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Jeremy Piger, Steve Haynes, and Neviana Petkova

Nick Muller

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Blackburn College
• Dissertation: "Biblical Contracts"
• Fields: Economics of Religion
• Committee: Joe Stone (chair), Jo Anna Gray, and Larry Singell

Peter Stiffler

• Initial placement: Economist, Bonneville Power Administration
• Dissertation: "Health Economics: Policy Outcomes, Individual Choice, and Adolescent Behavior"
• Fields: Labor and Environmental Economics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), Glen Waddell (co-chair), and Anne van den Nouweland

David Wozniak

• Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University
• Dissertation: "Essays in Experimental Economics: Examining the Effects of Ambiguity and Competition"
• Fields: Experimental Economics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, and Labor Economics
• Committee: William Harbaugh (chair), Trudy Ann Cameron, and Van Koplin

2008-2009 PhD Placements

Matthew Cole

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, UC-Dublin
• Dissertation: "Strategic Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Firms"
• Fields: International Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Ron Davies (co-chair), and Peter Lambert

Ryan Herzog

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
• Dissertation: "Testing Savings and Investment Rates to Understand Capital Mobility and Current Account Dynamics"
• Fields: Time-series and Panel Data Econometrics, International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Labor Economics
• Committee: Nicolas Magud (chair), Stephen Haynes, and Jeremy Piger

Erica Johnson

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
• Dissertation: "Willingness to Pay for Health Risk Reductions: The Importance of Scenario Adjustment, Household Structure, and Type of Disease"
• Fields: Health
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair)

Christina Steiger

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
• Dissertation: "Three Essays on Adaptive Learning, Institutions and Multiple Equilibria"
• Fields: Macroeconomics, Growth and Development, and Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair), and Jeremy Piger

Annie Voy

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
• Dissertation: "Globalization and Child Labor"
• Fields: International Trade, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization and Experimental Economics
• Committee: Ron Davies (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair), and Bruce Blonigen

2007-2008 PhD Placements

Beiliei Cai

• Dissertation: "Essays in Health and Environmental Economics: Challenges in The Empirical Analysis of Micro-Level Economic Survey Data"
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Health Economics, and Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Robin McKnight, and William Harbaugh

William Galose

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, SUNY-Fredonia
• Dissertation: "Three Empirical Essays Regarding The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Supplemental Environmental Projects Policy"
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, and Applied Microeconomics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair), Robin McKnight, and Wes Wilson

Kelii Haraguchi

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Willamette University
• Dissertation: "Three Essays on Mexican Migration to the United States"
• Fields: Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, and International Economics
• Committee: Glen Waddell (chair), Larry Singell, and Joe Stone

Nino Sitchinava

• Initial placement: Analysis Group
• Dissertation Title: "Trends in Trade in Intermediate and Finished Goods, Their Determinants and Effects"
• Fields: Microeconomics, Econometrics, International Trade, and Industrial Organization
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen, (co-chair), Ronald Davies (co-chair), and Glen Waddell

2006-2007 Placements

Fahad Alturki

• Initial placement: Monetary Agency, Saudi Arabia
• Dissertation Title: "Essays on Optimal Currency Areas"
• Committee: Nicolas Magud (co-chair), Bruce Blonigen (co-chair)

Dan Burghart

• Initial placement: Post-doc in Paul Glimcher’s Neuroecon lab, New York University
• Dissertation Title: "Demand for Public Goods"
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (co-chair), William Harbaugh (co-chair), and Glen Waddell

Chong-Uk Kim

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University
• Fields: International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Mark Thoma (co-chair)

Helen Naughton

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
• Fields: International and Environmental
• Committee: Ron Davies (co-chair), Glen Waddell (co-chair), and Bruce Blonigen

Paul Shea

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
• Fields: Macroeconomics and Time-series Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (chair)

Hong Zhuang

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Indiana – South Bend
• Fields: International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair)

2005-2006 Placements

Bornali Bhandari

• Initial placement: Department of Social Science, Fitchburg State College
• Fields: International Economics, Development Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Steve Haynes (co-chair)

Ryan Bosworth

• Initial placement: Department of Political Science and Public Administration, North Carolina State University
• Fields: Environmental Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Trudy Ann Cameron (chair)

Kevin Henrickson

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University
• Fields: Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair)

2004-2005 Placements

Avik Chakraborty

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
• Fields: International Finance, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: George Evans (co-chair), Steve Haynes (co-chair)

Brad Curs

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Missouri – Columbia
• Fields: Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics, and Industrial Organization
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair), Glen Waddell

William Hall

• Initial placement: Hollins University
• Fields: Economic Growth and Development, International Economics, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty (co-chair)

Stephen Kosovich

• Initial placement: Stephen F. Austin State University
• Fields: international Economics and Labor Economics
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair)

Michael Visser

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Sonoma State University
• Fields: Behavioral Economics, Applied Game Theory, Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics
• Committee: William Harbaugh (chair)

Dameon Wilbur

• Initial placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
• Fields: IO, Game Theory, Micro Theory, and Econometrics
• Committee: Van Kolpin (chair)

2003-2004 Placements

Ed Birdyshaw

• Initial placement: CSU-Fresno
• Fields: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Public Economics, Microeconomic Theory, and Econometrics
• Committee: Chris Ellis (chair)

Oguzhan Dincer

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Massey University
• Fields: Economic Growth and Development, Public Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Macroeconomics
• Committee: Chris Ellis (chair)

Mark Stater

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
• Fields: Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics, and Applied Game Theory
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair)

2002-2003 Placements

Michael Jonathan Enz

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Western New England College
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Larry Singell, and Lynn Kahle (Marketing)

Eran A. Guse

• Initial placement: Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Van Kolpin, Shankha Chakraborty, and Mikhail Myagkov (Political Science)

Seunggi Kim

• Initial placement: Korea National Assembly
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Steve Haynes, Wes Wilson, and Diane Del Guercio (Finance)

Benjamin H. Liebman

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, St. Joseph’s University
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Ron Davies, Wes Wilson, and Steers (Management)

Miao Wang

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Marquette University
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (co-chair), Steve Haynes (co-chair), Shankha Chakraborty, and Yue Fang (Decision Sciences)

2001-2002 Placements

Aaron L. Jackson

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Bentley University
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Jo Anna Gray, and George Racette (Finance)

Mohamed M.M. Soliman

• Initial placement: American University of Sharjah, UAE
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Steve Haynes, Ron Davies, and George Racette (Finance)

Man Chiu (Sunny) Wong

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Shankha Chakraborty, Steve Haynes, and John Orbell (Political Science)

Rossitza B. Wooster

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Larry Singell, and Lynn Kahle (Marketing)

2000-2001 Placements

William A. Branch

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Van Kolpin, Chris Ellis, and John Chalmers (Finance)

Scott E. Merryman

• Initial placement: United States Department of Agriculture
• Committee: Wes Wilson (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Larry Singell, and Robert O’Brien (Sociology)

1999-2000 Placements

Peter R. Crabb

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Northwest Nazarene University
• Committee: Bruce Blonigen (chair), Wes Wilson, Steve Haynes, and David Haushalter (Finance)

Athipong Hirunraengchok

• Initial placement: National Economic and Social Development Board, Thailand
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Bruce Blonigen, Van Kolpin, and George Racette (Finance)

Bruce B. McGough

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Christopher Ellis, Van Kolpin, and George Racette (Finance)

Jeffrey E. Russell

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Ashland University
• Committee: Larry Singell (chair), James Ziliak, Joe Stone, and Patricia Gwartney (Sociology)

Kevin A. Terada

• Initial placement: Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University
• Committee: George Evans (chair), Mark Thoma, Steve Haynes, and Sergio Koreisha (Decision Sciences)