Graduate Student Placement Coordinator: Gregmar I. Galinato
2019-20 PhD Students Job Market Placement
Christopher Ambrose
Email: christopher.ambrose@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on the Impacts of Recreational Marijuana Legalization
Major Professor:
Benjamin W. Cowan
Research Interests:
Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization
Position Accepted:
Post-doctoral researcher, Murphy Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on the Impacts of Recreational Marijuana Legalization
Major Professor:
Benjamin W. Cowan
Research Interests:
Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Industrial Organization
Position Accepted:
Post-doctoral researcher, Murphy Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans
Yenjae Chang
Email: yenjae.chang@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on Market Power and Consumer Welfare
Major Professor:
Jia Yan
Research Interests:
Industrial Organization, Energy and Environmental Economics, Transportation Economics, Public Economics
Position Accepted:
Associate Research Fellow, Korea Energy Economics Institute
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on Market Power and Consumer Welfare
Major Professor:
Jia Yan
Research Interests:
Industrial Organization, Energy and Environmental Economics, Transportation Economics, Public Economics
Position Accepted:
Associate Research Fellow, Korea Energy Economics Institute
Xi Gu
Email: xi.gu@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Consumer Demand and Production Risk
Major Professor:
Dr. Thomas L. Marsh
Research Interests:
Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Consumer Demand, Agricultural Economics, Quantitative Methods
Position Accepted:
Colaberry, Data Scientist position at Bayer
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Consumer Demand and Production Risk
Major Professor:
Dr. Thomas L. Marsh
Research Interests:
Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Consumer Demand, Agricultural Economics, Quantitative Methods
Position Accepted:
Colaberry, Data Scientist position at Bayer
Wenjun Wu
Email: wenjun.wu2@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on Fertility Decision Making
Major Professor:
Bidisha Mandal
Research Interests:
Development Economics, Health Economics, Behavior Economics, Econometrics
Position Accepted:
Tax Policy Specialist at Washington State Department of Licensing
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on Fertility Decision Making
Major Professor:
Bidisha Mandal
Research Interests:
Development Economics, Health Economics, Behavior Economics, Econometrics
Position Accepted:
Tax Policy Specialist at Washington State Department of Licensing
Samantha Johnson
Email: samantha.r.johnson@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Cause and Effect of Marketing Order Terminations
Major Professor:
Jill J. McCluskey and Mike Brady
Research Interests:
Agriculture, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Position Accepted:
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma.
Dissertation Title:
Cause and Effect of Marketing Order Terminations
Major Professor:
Jill J. McCluskey and Mike Brady
Research Interests:
Agriculture, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics
Position Accepted:
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oklahoma.
Nicholas Potter
Email: nicholas.a.potter@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Applications of Causal Inference and Policy Analysis
Major Professors:
Dr. Ron Mittelhammer, Dr. Jill McCluskey and Dr. Jia Yan
Research Interests:
Applied Econometrics; Health Economics; Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Position Accepted:
Assistant Director-Research at Moody’s Analytics, West Chester, PA.
Dissertation Title:
Applications of Causal Inference and Policy Analysis
Major Professors:
Dr. Ron Mittelhammer, Dr. Jill McCluskey and Dr. Jia Yan
Research Interests:
Applied Econometrics; Health Economics; Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Position Accepted:
Assistant Director-Research at Moody’s Analytics, West Chester, PA.
Jugal Marfatia
Email: jugal.marfatia@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Application of Machine Learning in Health Economics.
Major Professors:
Jill J. McCluskey and Mike Brady
Research Interests:
Econometrics, Machine Learning, Data Science
Position Accepted:
Data Scientist, Analytics: Facebook
Dissertation Title:
Application of Machine Learning in Health Economics.
Major Professors:
Jill J. McCluskey and Mike Brady
Research Interests:
Econometrics, Machine Learning, Data Science
Position Accepted:
Data Scientist, Analytics: Facebook
Joshua Tibbitts
Email: joshua.tibbitts@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
The Economics of Pain
Major Professor:
Jill McCluskey and Ron Mittelhammer
Research Interests:
Health Economics, Behavioral Economics, Pain, Public Economics
Position Accepted:
Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, Idaho
Dissertation Title:
The Economics of Pain
Major Professor:
Jill McCluskey and Ron Mittelhammer
Research Interests:
Health Economics, Behavioral Economics, Pain, Public Economics
Position Accepted:
Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, Idaho
Joseph Patten
Email: joseph.patten@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Higher Education, Developmental Economics, and Esports Economics
Major Professor:
Dr. Ben Cowan and Dr. Jon Yoder
Research Interests:
Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Behavioral and Public Economics
Position Accepted:
Data Scientist, Capital One
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Higher Education, Developmental Economics, and Esports Economics
Major Professor:
Dr. Ben Cowan and Dr. Jon Yoder
Research Interests:
Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Behavioral and Public Economics
Position Accepted:
Data Scientist, Capital One
Jikhan Jeong
Email: Jikhan.Jeong@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Business Economics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data
Major Professor:
H. Alan Love
Research Interests:
Business Economics of AI and Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Discrete Choice Model, Energy Economics.
Position Accepted:
Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Science & Business Analytics, Florida Polytechnic University
Dissertation Title:
Business Economics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data
Major Professor:
H. Alan Love
Research Interests:
Business Economics of AI and Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Discrete Choice Model, Energy Economics.
Position Accepted:
Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Science & Business Analytics, Florida Polytechnic University
HyunJin Lim
Email: hyunjin.lim@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on Organic Agriculture
Major Professor:
Michael Brady
Research Interests:
Applied microeconomics, Agricultural economics, and Environmental and resource ecnomics
Position Accepted:
Deputy Director 2050 Carbon Neutrality Commission, Korea
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays on Organic Agriculture
Major Professor:
Michael Brady
Research Interests:
Applied microeconomics, Agricultural economics, and Environmental and resource ecnomics
Position Accepted:
Deputy Director 2050 Carbon Neutrality Commission, Korea
Hao Li
Email: haoli.li@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Advances In Applied Agricultural and Experimental Economics
Major Professor:
Dr. Jonathan Yoder
Research Interests:
Primary: Applied Econometrics
Secondary: Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, Agricultural Economics.
Position Accepted:
Data scientist, Bayer Crop Science LLC
Dissertation Title:
Advances In Applied Agricultural and Experimental Economics
Major Professor:
Dr. Jonathan Yoder
Research Interests:
Primary: Applied Econometrics
Secondary: Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, Agricultural Economics.
Position Accepted:
Data scientist, Bayer Crop Science LLC
Chelsea Pardini
Email: chelsea.pardini@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Three Applications of Game Theory to Environmental and Conflict Economics
Major Professor:
Dr. Ana Espínola-Arredondo
Research Interests:
Primary: Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Justice, Political Economy of Settler Colonialism
Secondary: Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Position Accepted:
Post-doctoral researcher, New York University (Institute for Policy Integrity)
Dissertation Title:
Three Applications of Game Theory to Environmental and Conflict Economics
Major Professor:
Dr. Ana Espínola-Arredondo
Research Interests:
Primary: Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, Environmental Justice, Political Economy of Settler Colonialism
Secondary: Health Economics, Industrial Organization
Position Accepted:
Post-doctoral researcher, New York University (Institute for Policy Integrity)
Ashutosh Kumar
Email: ashutosh.kumar@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays in Health and Environmental Economics
Major Professor:
Benjamin W. Cowan
Research Interests:
Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics, Development Economics
Position Accepted:
Post-doctoral researcher, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Dissertation Title:
Three Essays in Health and Environmental Economics
Major Professor:
Benjamin W. Cowan
Research Interests:
Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics, Development Economics
Position Accepted:
Post-doctoral researcher, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Alexander Kappes
Email: alexander.kappes@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
The Economics of Livestock Health, Disease, and Production
Major Professor:
Thomas L. Marsh and J. Shannon Neibergs
Research Interests:
Applied Statistical Learning, Agricultural Economics, Global Health and Development
Position Accepted:
Post-doctoral researcher, Global Health Group, Washington State University
Dissertation Title:
The Economics of Livestock Health, Disease, and Production
Major Professor:
Thomas L. Marsh and J. Shannon Neibergs
Research Interests:
Applied Statistical Learning, Agricultural Economics, Global Health and Development
Position Accepted:
Post-doctoral researcher, Global Health Group, Washington State University
Afrin Islam
Email: afrin.islam@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Food Choices and Health Outcomes
Major Professor:
Dr. Jill J. McCluskey, Dr. Thomas L. Marsh and Dr. Ron Mittelhammer
Research Interests:
Applied Econometrics, Economics of Media, Food Policy, Climate Change
Position Accepted:
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Economics, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Dissertation Title:
Essays on Food Choices and Health Outcomes
Major Professor:
Dr. Jill J. McCluskey, Dr. Thomas L. Marsh and Dr. Ron Mittelhammer
Research Interests:
Applied Econometrics, Economics of Media, Food Policy, Climate Change
Position Accepted:
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Economics, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Mursaleen Shiraj
Email: m.shiraj@wsu.edu
Dissertation Title:
Applications of Causal Inference and Policy Analysis
Major Professor:
Dr. Ron Mittelhammer, Dr. Jill McCluskey and Dr. Jia Yan
Research Interests:
Applied Econometrics; Health Economics; Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Position Accepted:
Assistant Director-Research at Moody’s Analytics, West Chester, PA.
Dissertation Title:
Applications of Causal Inference and Policy Analysis
Major Professor:
Dr. Ron Mittelhammer, Dr. Jill McCluskey and Dr. Jia Yan
Research Interests:
Applied Econometrics; Health Economics; Agricultural, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Position Accepted:
Assistant Director-Research at Moody’s Analytics, West Chester, PA.