Supervision and Coauthors
Truly grateful for the moments of (laughter and) learning with my advisors, co-authors, colleagues and students. Special thanks to Anna, Andrew, Jason, LP, Marc Gyver, Marie, Mathias, Sarah, Steve, Ted and Yanos.
Doctoral Advisees (in progress):
Kayla Xiao: Applied micro. Committee role: advisor.
Pu Sun: Development economics and political economy. Committee role: advisor.
Rainier Ric de la Cruz: Development economics. Committee role: advisor.
Postdoctoral Fellows (ongoing):
Derek Mikola: Replication, crime and education; started 2023.
Bruno Barbarioli: Computer science; started 2024.
Juan P. Aparicio: Political economy, conflict; started 2024.
Doctoral Advisees (completed):
Taylor Wright: Law, health and public economics. Committee role: advisor. Placement: Assistant Professor -- Brock University.
Kareman Yassin: Behavioral and environmental economics. Committee role: advisor. Placement: Assistant Professor -- Hitotsubashi University.
Peerapat Tandavanitj: Development economics and political economy. Committee role: member. Visited Warwick University during PhD. Placement: Thailand's Office of the National Economic and Social Development Council.
Soodeh Saberian: Environmental economics. Committee role: member. Placement: Assistant Professor -- University of Manitoba.
Derek Mikola (Carleton University): Labor economics. Committee role: member. Placement: Research Scientist -- Institute for Replication.
Marie Christelle Mabeu: Development economics. Committee role: member. Internship at World Bank during PhD. Placement: Postdoc -- Stanford University.
Lamis Kattan: Political economy and labor economics. Committee role: advisor. Placement: Assistant Professor -- Georgetown University in Qatar.
Joanne Haddad: Political economy and history. Committee role: advisor. Visiting Boston University during PhD. Placement: Postdoc -- Université Libre de Bruxelles (ECARES).
Fabien Forge: Development economics. Committee role: co-supervision with Jason Garred. Visited UC Berkeley during PhD. Placement: Postdoc -- Institute of the Environment, Ottawa.
Nikolai Cook: Environmental and experimental economics. Committee role: co-supervision with Anthony Heyes. Placement: Assistant Professor -- Wilfrid Laurier University.
Jihad Abbadi: Political economy and finance. Committee role: advisor. Placement: Entrepreneur.
Coauthors and PhD Committee:
Yanos Zylberberg: Yanos is a lecturer at Bristol University. His research interests are in labor/public economics and macroeconomics: https://sites.google.com/site/yanoszylberberg/
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya: Katia was a member of my PhD committee. She is a professor at Paris School of Economics. Her research interests are in political economy: http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.com/zhuravskaya-ekaterina/index.html
Hasin Yousaf: Hasin is a lecturer at the University of New South Wales. He is working on the economics of terrorism and mass shootings: https://sites.google.com/site/hasinyousaf08/home
Stephen Weymouth: Stephen is an associate professor and the Dewey Awad Fellow at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. His research examines the political environment of globalization and technological change: https://www.stephenweymouth.com/
Marc Sangnier: Marc is a research fellow at the University of Namur . He did his PhD thesis on cooperation in the absence of formal control mechanism: http://marcsangnier.free.fr/index_en.php
Nattavudh Powdthavee: Nick is a professor at Warwick Business School. His research deals with behavioral economics and the socioeconomic determinants of well-being. Make sure to check his Paper Diary section on his webpage: https://www.powdthavee.co.uk/
Roland Pongou: Roland's work focuses on the microeconomic analysis of formal and informal institutions, and their impacts on societies: https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/1005/profile
Jörn-Steffen Pischke: Steve was one of my PhD supervisors. His work and advice for econ PhD students are available on his website: http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/spischke/index_own.html. He meets his PhD students every week for about an hour. His comments helped me to improve substantially many of my papers. Thank you Steve!
Carina Neisser: Carina is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne. Her recent work on deals with behavioral responses and transparency initiatives: https://sites.google.com/view/carinaneisser
Edward Miguel: Ted supervised me while I was visiting UC Berkeley. I am very grateful for his encouragement and counsel on the Thai sex industry and research transparency projects. Ted worked on many topics in development economics including civil conflict, institutions and worms. His work is available here: http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/
Lester R. Lusher: Lester starts his email with Aloha. Not sure why but it always makes me smile. His research interests are in economics of education and publication bias: https://lrlusher.weebly.com/
Warn N. Lekfuangfu: Warn is a researcher at Chulalongkorn University. She is currently working on the relationship between schooling investment and landmines in Cambodia: https://npwarn.wixsite.com/warn-lekfuangfu
Mathias Lé: Mathias is an economist at the French Prudential Supervisory Authority. He did his PhD thesis on bank risk-taking and deposit insurance: https://sites.google.com/site/mathiasle/
Anthony Heyes: Anthony is a full professor at uOttawa. He also holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Environmental Economics. His research focuses on environmental policies and "business and the environment" issues: https://sites.google.com/site/anthonygheyes/
David Gray: David is a full professor at uOttawa. His research interests are in labor economics: https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/850/profile
Pierre-Yves Geoffard: Pierre-Yves was a member of my PhD committee. His research interests include health economics and public economics: http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/geoffard-pierre-yves/
Martin Fiszbein: Martin's research focuses on the economic history of the U.S. He is an assistant professor at Boston University: https://sites.google.com/site/martinfiszbein/home
David Figlio: David is Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern. His work deals with school accountability, welfare policy, policy design, and the link between health and education: https://sites.northwestern.edu/davidfiglio/
Sarah Flèche: Sarah is working on welfare economics using self-reported measures of well-being. She recently joined the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbionne as a CNRS research fellow: https://sites.google.com/site/sarahfleche/home
Marie Connolly: Marie is a professor at the UQAM. She worked with Alan B. Krueger on the economics of popular music and the effect of weather on different outcomes: http://www.connolly.uqam.ca/index.html
Andrew Clark: Andrew supervised me during my PhD at PSE. He worked extensively on modelling the utility function and social interactions. His webpage is really funny. Among other things, you'll find an explanation of what is Paris School of Economics (which I still do not understand very well), somewhat useless information about football (like who has the best team in Palaiseau) and somewhat interesting information about music: http://www.parisschoolofeconomics.com/clark-andrew/
Scott Carrell: Scott is a professor at the University of California, Davis. His research interests are in labor economics, economics of education and public economics: http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/scarrell/
Louis-Philippe Beland: LP is an assistant professor at Carleton University. His research interests are in public and labor economics: https://www.lpbeland.com/
Samuel Bazzi: Samuel is an associate professor at UCSD. His research interests span development, labor, and political economy: https://sites.google.com/site/samuelbazzi/
Leonardo Baccini: Leo is an associate professor in the Political Science department at McGill University. His research interests span international political economy and comparative political economy: https://sites.google.com/site/leonardobaccini/