Economics Ph.D. Students

Job Market Candidates 2017-2018

Rodrigo Aranda Balcazar

Graduate student, Ph.D. program

B.S. Economics, Universidad Iberoamericana

Research interests: Health economics, applied microeconomics, poverty and inequality, and public policy

raranda@tulane.edu
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Ali Enami

Graduate student, Ph.D. program

M.A. Economics, University of Akron
MBA Malek-Ashtar University of Technology (Iran)
B.S. Industrial Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Iran)

Research interests: Public economics, education economics, health economics, and development economics

aenami@tulane.edu
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Jacqueline Fiore

Graduate student, Ph.D. program

M.S. Epidemiology, George Washington University
B.A. Communication/Business Admin, University of Delaware

Research interests: health economics, development economics, public policy

jfiore@tulane.edu
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Michael Spanbauer

Graduate student, Ph.D. program

B.A. Economics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Research interests: public policy, urban economics, environmental and energy economics

mspanbau@tulane.edu
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Graduate students

Sanjukta Basu

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

Research interests: experimental economics, public choice theory and microeconomics

sbasu@tulane.edu
Koray Caglayan

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Economics, Tulane University

Research interests: economics of education, development economics, poverty trap, physiology of poverty

kcaglaya@tulane.edu
Feng Chen

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Public finance, Central University of Finance and Economics
B.A. Finance, Shandong University of Technology

Research interests: economics of education, applied microeconomics, labor economics

fchen9@tulane.edu
Stephanie Fortune-Taylor

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.Ed., University of California-Riverside
B.A. Anthropology, Stanford University

Research interests: labor economics

sfortune@tulane.edu
Siobhan Innes-Gawn

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Economics, Tulane University

Research interests: Health economics

sinnesga@tulane.edu
Dmitry Kurochkin

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.S. Mathematics, Tulane University
M.S. Chemistry, Tulane University
M.S. Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
B.S. Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests: environmental economics, renewable energy integration

dkurochk@tulane.edu
Sean Larkin

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Economics, University of Maine
B.S. Applied Physics, Pacific Lutheran University
B.A. Economics, Pacific Lutheran University

Research interests: public economics, poverty and inequality, development economics

slarkin@tulane.edu
Mengde Liu

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
B.A. Beloit College

Research interests: public finance, health economics

mliu9@tulane.edu
Valentina Martinez-Pabon

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Economics, Universidad de los Andes
B.S. Economics, Universidad de los Andes

Research interests: poverty and inequality, economics of education, applied microeconomics

vmartinezpabon@tulane.edu
Mary Penn

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Policy Economics, Tulane University
B.A. International Studies and Spanish, University of Kentucky

Research interests: regulation, fiscal policy, environmental economics

mpenn2@tulane.edu
Siyu Quan

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
B.S. Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid

Research interests: Health economics, public policy

squan@tulane.edu
Daniela Rivero Bryant

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
B.S. Industrial Engineering, Universidad Católica Boliviana-San Pablo

Research interests: disaster economics, resilience, public policy, urban economics

irivero@tulane.edu
Alexander Siebert

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
B.S.

Research interests:

asiebert@tulane.edu
Cuicui Song

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
B.A. International Trade, Zhengzhou University

Research interests: public finance, poverty and inequality

csong1@tulane.edu
Brigham Walker

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.Sc. Finance, University of London
A.L.M. Management, Harvard University
B.A. Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Research interests: health systems, human capital, development economics, fiscal policy, behavioral economics

bwalker6@tulane.edu
Rui Wang

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
B.A. Law, Hainan University, Haikou, China
M.A. Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut

Research interests: environmental and resource economics; law and economics; health economics

rwang4@tulane.edu
Yang Wang

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
B.A. Finance, Nankai University
B.A. Economics, Westminster College
M.S. Statistical and Economic Modeling, Duke University

Research interests: health economics, public finance, applied econometrics

ywang48@tulane.edu
Ziqi Xie

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Northeastern University

Research interests: public finance, taxation, health economics

zxie@tulane.edu
Jin Xing

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.S. Economics, Drexel University
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

Research interests: public finance, health economics

jxing@tulane.edu
Lu Yao

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
B.A. University of Cincinnati

Research interests: econometrics, taxation

lyao2@tulane.edu
Jingyi Zhang

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics
B.A. Mathematics, Shandong Technology and Business University

Research interests: labor economics; health economics

jzhang28@tulane.edu
Rujun Zhao

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Northeastern University

Research interests: public policy, urban economics

rzhao@tulane.edu