Economics Ph.D. Students

Job Market Candidates 2019-2020

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: Economic and Social Determinants of Early Life Health Capital

kcaglaya@tulane.edu
Mengde Liu

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

Research interests: Industrial Organization, Financial Economics, Health Economics

mliu9@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
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
Lu Yao

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

Research interests: Health Economics, Market Competition, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization

lyao2@tulane.edu
Rujun Zhao

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

Research interests: Public Policy, Urban Economics

rzhao@tulane.edu

Graduate students

Sean Patrick Alvarez

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
B.S. Economics, Troy University

Research interests: Public Policy, Political Economy, Health Economics

salvarez1@tulane.edu
Truc Thi Mai Bui

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Public Affairs, Indiana University
B.A. Economics, Vietnam National University

Research interests: Taxation, Public Finance, Labor Economics

tbui7@tulane.edu
Feng Chen

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

Research interests: Economics of Education, Health Economics

fchen9@tulane.edu
Kaitlin Coppinger

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Policy Economics, Tulane University
B.A. Economics, University of California, Davis

Research interests: Maritime Economics, Transportation, Economics of Education, Public Policy

kcopping@tulane.edu
Zehra Farooq

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.Phil. Public Policy & Government, National Defense University, Pakistan
MBA Finance, University of the Punjab
B.S. Computer Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad

Research interests: Public Finance, Public Economics, Taxation, Inequality, Public Sector Development

zfarooq@tulane.edu
Kerui Geng

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics
B.A. Economics, Hubei University

Research interests: Economics of Education, Labor Economics

kgeng@tulane.edu
Siobhan Innes-Gawn

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.S. Economic Analysis & Policy, Tulane University
J.D. Duke University School of Law
B.S. Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Arizona

Research interests: Health Economics, Law & Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

sinnesga@tulane.edu
Farah Khan

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. International Political Economy, New York University
B.A. Finance, Lahore School of Economics, Lahore

Research interests: Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance, Political Economy of Development, Public Policy

fkhan5@tulane.edu
Dmitry Kurochkin

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
Ph.D. Mathematics, Tulane University
M.S. Economic Analysis and Policy, Tulane University
M.S. Statistics, Tulane University
M.S. Applied Mathematics, Tulane University
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
Fanyu Liu

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.S. Quantitative Economics and Econometrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S. Economics, Beijing Jiaotong University

Research interests: Public Finance, Fiscal Policy, Econometrics

fliu5@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
Guillermo Federico Sanz

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Economics, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
B.A. Economics, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Argentina

Research interests: Poverty and Inequality, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics

gsanz@tulane.edu
Alexander Siebert

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.S. Applied Economics and Policy Analysis, University of Regina Saskatchewan
B.A. Economics, University of Regina Saskatchewan

Research interests: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Labor Economics, Public Finance, Game Theory

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
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
Mohit Prakash-Yadav

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Research interests: Macroeconomic Policy, Regulation and Reform, Economic Growth and Inequality, Public Choice Theory

myadav@tulane.edu
Qiuyue Zhang

Graduate student, Ph.D. program
M.A. Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics
B.A. Finance, Anhui University of Finance and Economics

Research interests: Labor Economics, Economic Development

qzhang32@tulane.edu