Graduate Economics Program - Job Candidates
We are pleased to present our current job market candidates. As a group, they have much experience in presenting and publishing their research and in teaching. Please feel free to review each candidate's CV by clicking on the student's name. You may contact the candidates directly via email, or contact the Graduate Economics Program Director Tamah Morant for more information about the candidates.
Our Graduate Economics program has a long history of preparing students for careers in academia, government and the private sector. The program has over 50 graduate faculty members from both College of Management and College of Agricultural and LIfe Sciences, providing a variety of fields of specilization including macro-monetary economics, international trade, econometrics, agricultural economics and environmental and resource economics. Given the program's strong empirical focus, our alumni have excelled not only in academia and government, but also in the corporate world with many of our graduates entering into applied research divisions of the private sector.
Ph.D. Job Candidates
(Curriculum Vitae are linked to the candidate's name. CVs are in HTML format unless otherwise noted. PDF files may be viewed using the FREE Adobe Acrobat Viewer.)
Nicole Coomer
(email)
Fields of Interest: health economics, labor economics, microeconomics, microeconometrics
Dissertation: Bilingualism, Wage Differentials and the Minimum Wage--Three Essays in
the Economics of Labor and Health
Osman Gulseven (website)
(email)
Fields of Interest: applied microeconomics, applied econometrics, retail
demand models, quantitative modeling and statistical analysis.
Dissertation: Comparison of Discrete, Hedonic and Mixed Logit Demand Models.
Rotua Lumbantobing
(email)
Fields of Interest: development economics, applied microeconomics, poverty alleviation, policy analysis
Dissertation: Locational Decisions with Respect to Water Access: Evidence of Sorting Equilibrium in Southwest Sri Lanka
Kosmas Marinakis (website)
(email)
Fields of interest: microeconomics, tournament theory, contract theory, experimental economics
Dissertation: Three essays on Tournaments and Piece Rates under Limited Liability, Liquidity Constraints and Cooperation
Keri Perez
(email)
Fields of interest: agricultural and natural resource economics, applied microeconomics, econometrics, agricultural production, agricultural policy, public choice
Dissertation: The Conservation Reserve Program: Determinants of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Enrollment and Landowners' Supply of Conservation Services
Kshama Sawant
(email)
Fields of Interest: economics of aging, economics of development, health in developing countries, household economics
Dissertation: Elderly Labor Supply in a Rural, Less Developed Economy: An Empirical Study
Joo Kyung Sung (website)
(email)
Fields of Interest: environmental and resources economics, applied microeconomics, applied econometrics
Dissertation: On Snowmobiles, Geyers, and Grizzly Bears: Understanding Winter Visitation to Yellowstone National Park Using Revealed and Stated Preference Modeling
Levente Timar
(email)
Fields of Interest: environmental and resource economics
Dissertation: Modeling the Anthropogenic Spread of an Aquatic Invasive: The Case of Zebra Mussels and Transient Recreational Boating in Wisconsin
Ying Zhu
(email)
Fields of Interest: econometrics, statistical and modeling analysis
Master's Job Candidates
Brian Ford
(email)
Fields of interest: econometrics & quantitative analysis
Karin Ganter
(email)
Christelle Gahamanyi
(email)
Mary Gruebnau
(email)
Madeline Irwin
(email)
Fields of interest: public policiy, benefit-cost analysis, international trade, and developmental economics
Larry Locklear
(email)
Fields of interest: community & economic development, econometric analysis, health economics