The doctoral program is relatively small, and when students complete the program the faculty makes extensive efforts to place them in positions that match their skills. Almost every student who receives a PhD in the program obtains an academic appointment when that's the student's objective.
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2023
| Spencer Cooper | University of Connecticut | Assistant Professor |
| Austin Drukker | U.S. Federal Trade Commission | Economist |
| EK Green | Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation | Economist |
| Katherine Hauck | Northwestern University | Post-doctoral Research Fellow |
| Jeong Yeol Kim | Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management | Assistant Professor |
| Ernesto Rivera Mora | Yale University / University of Colorado-Boulder | Post-doctoral Research Fellow / Assistant Professor |
2022
| Paul Fisher | US Department of Treasury | Financial Economist |
| Yuge Hao | T-Mobil | Business Analysis Manager |
| Shuya He | Lazada | Economist |
| Rachel Mannahan | Tennessee Tech | Assistant Professor |
| Yujia Peng | Meta Platforms | Data Scientist |
| Liang Qiao | Nankai University | Assistant Professor |
| Elaine Rhee | Square | Data Scientist |
| Laura Davidoff Taylor | Caltech | Post-Doctoral Scholar |
2021
| Mitch Addler | University of Arizona | Lecturer |
| Karla Cordova | Pomona College | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Jay Dhar | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | Economist |
| Chase Eck | Baylor College of Medicine | Health Economist |
| Xinyuan Liu | Facebook | Economist |
| Kelli Marquardt | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Economist |
| Jakub Tecza | University of Florida | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Andy Yuan | Northwestern University | Post-doctoral Research Fellow |
| Han Yuan | Sun Yat-sen University | Assistant Professor |
| Wendan Zhang | Renmin University of China | Assistant Professor |
| Wei Zhou | Amazon | Economist |
2020
| Miao Guo | Hunan University | Assistant Professor |
| Senran Lin | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | Assistant Professor |
| Tim Roberson | University of Tennessee | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Jin Sohn | Dongbei University of Finance and Economics | Assistant Professor |
| Wenhao Wu | ShanghaiTech University | Assistant Professor |
| Bohan Ye | University of Southern Indiana | Assistant Professor
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2019
| Chris Candreva | University of Texas at Arlington | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Phuong Ho | SNF, Norwegian School of Economics | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| Chen Huang | Central University of Finance and Economics | Assistant Professor |
| Sean Inoue | Louisiana State University | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Swapnil Motghare | University of Notre Dame | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Maxwell Rosenthal | Georgia Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor |
| Arundhati Tillu | University of Chicago | E2e Energy Policy Fellow |
2018
| Devdeepta Bose | California Institute of Technology | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Jackson Dorsey | Indiana University | Assistant Professor |
| Erin McGuire | National Bureau of Economic Research | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Keith Meyers | National Bureau of Economic Research
The University of Southern Denmark | Postdoctoral Fellow (Fall 2018)
Assistant Professor (Fall 2019) |
| Shariq Mohammed | University of Michigan | Postdoctoral Fellow |
2017
| Wesley Blundell | California State University - East Bay | Assistant Professor |
| Sebastian Fleitas | University of Leuven | Assistant Professor |
| Anatolii Kokoza | USAA | Analyst |
| Daehong Min | Korea Information Society Development Institute | Consultant |
| Juan Velez | Banco de la Republica del Colombia | Consultant |
| Kyle Wilson | Pomona College | Assistant Professor |
| Mariana Zerpa | University of Leuven | Research Scholar |
2016
| Patrick Cizek | Price Waterhouse Cooper | Associate |
| Cong Liu | Shanghai Univ. of Finance and Economics | Assistant Professor |
| Quyen Nguyen | Utah State University | Assistant Professor |
| Collin Weigel | Johns Hopkins University | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Nedko Yordanov | Econ One Consulting | Consultant |
2015
| James Fisher | University of Technology, Sydney | Research Fellow |
| Timothy Flannery | Eastern Connecticut University | Assistant Professor |
| Chuan (Charles) He | Amazon.com | Economist |
| Alex Hollingsworth | University of Indiana - Bloomington | Assistant Professor |
| Dooseok Jang | Yonsei University | Research Fellow |
| Jianjing Lin | Tulane University | Post-Doctoral Fellow |
| Mike Matheis | St. Anselm College | Assistant Professor |
| Soudeh Mirghasemi | Hofstra University | Assistant Professor |
| Hoa Nguyen | Allegheny College | Assistant Professor |
| Anila Prakash | Ernst & Young | Senior Transfer Pricing Analyst |
| Ivan Rudik | Iowa State University | Assistant Professor |
2014
| Leila Asgari | JP Morgan Chase, Phoenix | Associate Vice President - Risk Modeling |
| Phil Hihn | JP Morgan Chase, Phoenix | Associate Vice President - Modeler II |
| Taylor Jaworski | Queens University, Canada | Assistant Professor |
| Irving Llamosas-Rojas | University of Guadalajara | Assistant Professor |
| Stefanie Ramirez | University of Idaho | Assistant Professor |
| David Rietzke | Lancaster University, United Kingdom | Assistant Professor |
| Galiya Sagyndykova | Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan | Assistant Professor |
| Thiagarajah Subramanian | Discover Financial Services | Senior Associate, Modeling |
| Ming-sen Wang | Discover Financial Services | Senior Associate, Modeling |
| Zaiyan Wei | Purdue University | Assistant Professor |
