Current Job Market Candidates
Placement Director: Prof. Susan Vroman
Email: susan.vroman@georgetown.edu
Placement Administrator: Julius J. Shapiro
Email: js3900@georgetown.edu
Welcome to the Placement website of the Department of Economics. I am pleased to provide information describing the Georgetown University Department of Economics Ph.D. candidates who are on the job market this year. Each candidate’s website includes a CV, research description, and links to papers. All will be attending the ASSA virtual meeting in January 2021 and will be available for interviews. Some of the candidates will attend the virtual EEA meeting. I am happy to provide any additional information.
Sincerely,
Susan Vroman, Placement Director
JOB MARKET CANDIDATES 2020-2021 SUMMARY PAGE

Gaurav Bagwe
Job Market Paper: “Courting Legal Change: Dynamics of Voting on the US Supreme Court“
Fields: Primary: Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics
Secondary: Law and Economics, Structural Econometrics
References: Laurent Bouton, Garance Genicot, John Rust, and Neel Sukhatme (GU Law Center)

Becka Brolinson
Job Market Paper: “Does Increasing Block Pricing Decrease Energy Use? Evidence from the Residential Electricity Market“
Fields: Primary: Environmental Economics, Public Economics
Secondary: Applied Econometrics
References: Arik Levinson, Susan Vroman, Margaret Walls

Jiadi Chen
Job Market Paper: “Faster Shipping or Cheaper Price? Gender Differences in Online Shopping“
Fields: Primary: Applied Microeconomics
Secondary: Industrial Organization, Sports Economics
References: John Rust (Main Advisor), James Angel, Shiliang Cui, Ian Gale

Lawrence Costa
Job Market Paper: “College and Lifecycle Earnings Inequality“
Fields: Primary: Macroeconomics, Computational Economics,
Secondary: Economics of Education and Income Inequality
References: James Albrecht, Susan Vroman

Maria Hernandez de Benito
Job Market Paper: “The Effect of Violent Crime on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Bargaining Power“
Fields: Primary: Applied Microeconomics, Development Economics
Secondary: Household Economics, Gender, Crime
References: Garance Genicot, Martin Ravallion, Andrew Zeitlin

Mosha Huang
Job Market Paper: “Home Production Marketization, Routinization and Job Polarization.”
Fields: Primary: Applied Microeconomics
Secondary: Development Economics
References: James Albrecht, Susan Vroman

Pedro Juarros
Job Market Paper: “Fiscal Stimulus, Credit Frictions and the Amplification Effects of Small Firms“
Fields: Primary: Macroeconomics
Secondary: Fiscal Policy, International Economics, Public Economics
References: Mark Huggett (Main Advisor), Dan Cao, Toshihiko Mukoyama and Guillermo Vuletin

Juan Margitic
Job Market Paper: “Polling Place Location and the Costs of Voting“
Fields: Primary: Development Economics and Political Economy
References: Laurent Bouton, Garance Genicot, Martin Ravallion

Umberto Muratori
Job Market Paper: “Knowledge Diffusion, Markups, and Cohorts of Firms“
Fields: Primary: Macroeconomics
Secondary: Innovation, Economic Growth, Firm Dynamics, Labor Economics
References: Toshihiko Mukoyama (Main Advisor), Adriana Kugler, Dan Cao

Jacquelyn Pavilon
Job Market Paper: “Why Protection is Important: the Impact of Uncertainty on Refugee Integration“
Fields: Primary: International Migration, Labor Economics
Secondary: Political Economy
References: Anna Maria Mayda, Rodney Ludema, Sharat Ganapati

Michael Packard
Job Market Paper: “Mass Immigration and the Response of Native Workers: Evidence from Austria“
Fields: Primary: International Migration, Labor Economics
Secondary: Applied Microeconomics, Spatial Economics, International Economics
References: Anna Maria Mayda, Ferdinando Monte, Caglar Ozden

Nikoloz Pkhakadze
Job Market Paper: “Polarizing Cheap Talk“
Fields: Primary: Microeconomic Theory
Secondary: Industrial Organization
References: Axel Anderson, Luca Anderlini, Roger Lagunoff

Mariel Siravegna
Job Market Paper: “The Gender Gap across the Wage Distribution in Chile: An Application of Copula-based Methods“
Fields: Primary: Labor Economics
Secondary: Gender Economics, Applied Econometrics
References: James Albrecht, Susan Vroman, Anna Maria Mayda

Yangfan Sun
Job Market Paper: “The Impact of Different Foreclosure Laws on Mortgage Foreclosure“
Fields: Primary: Financial Economics
Secondary: Household Finance, Banking
References: John Rust (Primary Advisor), Christopher M. James, Toshihiko Mukoyama

Yangyang Wang
Job Market Paper: “Strategic Dynamic Pricing for New Products with Social Learning: the Case of Chobani Greek Yogurt“
Fields: Primary: Empirical Industrial Organization, Quantitative Marketing
Secondary: Applied Microeconometrics, Machine Learning, Computational Methods
References: John Rust (Main Advisor), Nathan Miller, Sharat Ganapati