Economics Ph.D. Students

Job Market Candidates 2018-2019

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  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
  Curriculum Vitae
  Website
  RePec

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  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: Health Economics, Applied Economics, Information Economics, Environmental Economics, and Public Health

  rwang4@tulane.edu
  Curriculum Vitae
  Website
  Research Statement
  Teaching Statement
  Job Market Paper

Graduate students

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  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

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  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

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  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 and Health Economics

  fchen9@tulane.edu

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  Mengde Liu

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

  Research interests: Public Finance, Health Economics

  mliu9@tulane.edu

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  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

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  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

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  Siyu Quan

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

  Research interests: Health Economics, Public Policy

  squan@tulane.edu

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  Ziqi Xie

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

  Research interests: Public Finance, Taxation, Health Economics

  zxie@tulane.edu

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  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

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  Lu Yao

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

  Research interests: Econometrics, Taxation

  lyao2@tulane.edu

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  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

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  Rujun Zhao

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

  Research interests: Public Policy, Urban Economics

  rzhao@tulane.edu