Student Advising

Graduate Student Advising

Students Who Have Finished at UVA

• Kun Soo Choi - 5/90. "Wages and Employment Negotiations, and Econometric Tests of the Nash-Zeuthen and Raiffa/Kalai-Smordinsky Bargaining Models."

• Seunghee Han - 8/90. "Wages, Amenities and Labor Supply Responses in the Physician Services Market." Placement: Korean Government.

• Barbara Steinberg Schone - 1/91. "The Labor Supply Effects of Government Transfers in Cash and in Kind." Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: Vanderbilt University, Department of Economics.

• Derek Neal - 1/92. "Inter-Industry Variation in Wages and Turnover." Placement: University of Chicago, Department of Economics.

• Michael Palumbo - 5/92. "Health Uncertainty and Optimal Consumption Near the End of the Life Cycle." Placement: University of Houston, Department of Economics.

• Richard Shipe - 5/92. "Cost and Productivity in the U.S. Urban Bus Transit Sector, 1978-89." Placement: US Army.

• Daniel Zabinsky - 1/94. "Reform of the Tax Preference for Employer- Provided Health Insurance: An Econometric Analysis." Placement: AHCPR.

• Amy Crews - 7/94. "Self-Selection and Administrative Selection in the Estimation of the Effects of In-Kind Transfers." Placement: Syracuse University, Public Policy School.

• Todd Stinebrickner - 1/96. "A Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of Teacher Attrition." Placement: University of Michigan (Population Studies Postdoctoral program); Western Ontario University, (permanent).

• Catherine O'Connor - 4/96. "Early-Out Incentives: A Case Study of the U.S. Army Officers." Placement: Ohio State University, Department of Economics.

• Chris Swann - 4/96. "A Dynamic Analysis of Marriage, Labor Force Participation, and Participation in the AFDC Program;" Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: University of Michigan, Department of Economics (Visiting Professor 1 year); State University of New York, Stony Brook (permanent).

• Jessica Horewitz - 1/97. "Are Team Owners in the National Football League Profit Maximizers." Placement: Putnam, Hayes, and Bartlett.

• Fredrick Holt - 4/97. "The Family's Decision to Migrate: A Dynamic Analysis." Placement: Bureau of the Census.

• Allison Ivory - 4/97. "The Effect of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Labor Supply and Tax Payer Compliance." Placement: Joint Committee on Taxation.

• Benjamin Scafidi - 9/97. "Neighborhood, Housing, and School Choice." Placement: New York University, Law School (Research Associate, 2 years); Georgia State University (permanent).

• Mikel Ham - 5/98. "Rental Car Service Tenure and Downstream Vertical Integration in the Automobile Industry." Placement: Economic Analysis Corporation.

• Jose Canals-Cerda - 7/98. "Identification in Search Models;" Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: University of Colorado.

• Monica Hartmann - 8/00. "An Examination of Safety Provision and Tax Policy in a Structural Model of the Airline Industry." Placement: St. Thomas University.

• Michelle Sheran - 6/01. "The Career and Family Decisions of Women: A Dynamic Analysis of Labor Force Participation, Schooling, Marriage, and Fertility Decisions." Placement: University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

• Brian McManus - 8/01. "Nonlinear Pricing in an Oligopoly Market: The Case of Specialty Coffee;" IJIO Prize for Best Paper by a Young Economist, Snavely Award for Best Dissertation, Article in Slate. Placement: Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis.

• Michelle Goeree - 5/02. "Informative Advertising and the US Personal Computer Market: A Structural Empirical Examination." Young Economist Essay Prize (EARIE) European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, 2003, Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: University of Amsterdam.

• Kara Olson Reynolds - 9/03. "The Causes and Consequences of Dumping." Placement: American University.

• Jessica Howell - 11/03. "A Structural Equilibrium Model of the Market for Higher Education: Assessing the Impact of Eliminating Affirmative Action." Placement: California State University, Sacramento. ( see pictures from graduation).

• Paul Sullivan - 9/04. "A Dynamic Analysis of Educational, Occupational, and Inter-firm Mobility Decisions." Placement: University of Michigan (Population Studies Postdoctoral program); Bureau of Labor Statistics (permanent).

• David Byrne - 5/05. "Unemployment Insurance in an Empirical Sequential Search Model." Placement: Federal Reserve Board.

• Kenneth Wilbur - 6/05. "Not All Eyeballs are Created Equal: A Structural Equilibrium Model of Television Advertisers, Networks, and Viewers." Placement: University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business.

• Loren Smith - 8/05. "Optimal Buying and Selling of Durable Goods: The Case of Commercial Aircraft." Placement: Federal Trade Commission.

• Paul Carrillo - 8/05. "An Equilibrium Search Model for Buyers and Sellers and an Empirical Application to the Real Estate Market." Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: George Washington University.

• Beth Freeborn - 12/05. "Drug Laws and the Market for Cocaine." Placement: College of William and Mary.

• Naoko Akashi - 8/06. "The Effect of Hospitals-Insurers Interaction on Medical Care Pricing." Placement: California State University, Fullerton.

• Keith Brand - 10/06. "Equilibrium Product Characteristics in Health Insurance Markets: An Analysis of Medicare+Choice." Placement: Federal Trade Commission.

• Marc Santugini - 5/07. "Social Learning in the Motion Picture Market." Placement: HEC Montreal.

• Catherine Tyler Mooney - 6/07. "Evaluating the Impacts of Consolidation in the Radio Industry." Placement: University of Oklahoma.

• Scott E. Davis - 8/07. "A Structural Model of the Effects of Housing Vouchers on Housing Consumption and Labor Supply." Placement: CNA Corporation.

• Sarah Simmons - 11/07. "Welfare (to School?) to Work: How Welfare Reform Affects Collegiate Attainment." Placement: Rhodes College.

• Jason Hulbert - 11/07. "A Dynamic Model of Multiproduct Firms: Advertising and Product Selection in the Ready to Eat Cereal Industry."

• Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy - 5/08. "A Bad Peace is Better Than a Good War: A Structural Model of Marital Disagreements." Placement: Iowa State University.

• Eric Fesselmeyer - 12/08. "Learning and Product Selection: An Empirical Model of Monopoly Behavior." Placement: National University of Singapore.

• Jonathan Williams - 3/09, "The Causes and Welfare Consequences of Predation: A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of the Airline Industry." Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: University of Georgia.

• Daniel Becker - 4/09, "Tradeoffs Between Wages and Other Job Characteristics With an Application to UI." Placement: Federal Trade Commission.

• Uma Radhakrishnan - 5/10, "A Dynamic Structural Model of Contraceptive Use and Employment Sector Choice for Women in Indonesia."

• Gihoon Hong - 11/10, "U.S. and Domestic Migration Decisions of Mexican Workers." Placement: Indiana University, South Bend.

• Shuna Wang - 5/11, "The Entry Deterrence Effect of Authorized Generic Drugs: A Dynamic Reputation Model of a Fighting Brand in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Placement: Fannie Mae.

• Romeo Fontaine (Universite Paris-Dauphine) - 6/11. "Essays on Long-Term Care," outside reader.

• Adam Hyde - 3/12, "A Structural Model of Obstetrician Location and Treatment Decisions." Placement: Wake Forest University School of Business.

• Yiyi Zhou - 4/12. "Vertical Integration and Industrial Dynamics in Two-Sided Markets: The Case of Video Games." Snavely Award for Best Dissertation Proposal. Snavely Award for Best Dissertation. Placement: SUNY Stony Brook.

• Kang Jian - 5/12. "When Are the Tickets Cheapest? A Structural Model of an Airline's Dynamic Pricing under Fixed Capacity." Placement: Bank of America.

• Mariusz Kolczykiewicz - 7/13. "The Impact of the Mother's Decision to Marry on Child Outcomes." Placement: Acumen

• Chris Clapp - 7/13. "Should My Car Move or Should We? An Intra-Household Model of Residential and Commuting Choices."

• Jonathan Eggleston - 3/14. "Spousal Labor Supply and Unemployment: Estimates from a Household Search Model." Snavely Dissertation Proposal Prize for Spring 2012. Placement: US Census Bureau.

• Charles Murry - 4/14. "Strategic Advertising in Vertical Relationships." Snavely Dissertation Proposal Prize for Spring 2012. Nice article. Placement: Pennsylvania State University.

• Haiyan Liu - 6/14. "Informative Advertising with Signaling Role and Social Learning in the Motion Picture Industry." Snavely Dissertation Proposal Prize for Fall 2009. Placement: University of Southern Florida.

• Catherine Alford - 4/15. "High Today versus Lows Tomorrow: An Analysis of How Substance Use Affects Education and Career Paths." Snavely Award for Best Dissertation Proposal. Placement: Analysis Group. Dazzling dancing at Catherine's wedding

• Matthew Shi - 6/16. "Advertising and Platform Competition with Multi-Homing Users: A Study of the U.S. Magazine Market." Placement: Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Dina Guo - 10/16.  "Happy Together or Home Alone: A Structural Model of the Role of Health Insurance in Joint Retirement Among Married Couples." Placement: PNC Bank.

• Michael Laforest - 4/17. "The Effects of High School Vocational Education for Non-College-Bound Students." Placement: Urban Labs, University of Chicago.

• Murat Demirci - 4/17. "The Impact of High Skill Immigration on Career Decisions of College-Educated Natives." Placement: Koc University.

• Selcen Cakir - 4/18. "Party Formation in Parliamentary Democracies." Placement: Bogazici University.

• Siying Liu - 8/18. "Entry Decisions and Incumbents' Responses: Evidence from the Outpatient Surgery Market."  Placement: Wake Forest University Post-Doc; Amazon (permanent).

• Dajun Lin - 7/19. "A Dynamic Analysis of Individual Endowment, Schooling Choice and Career Choice: A Task-Based Approach." Placement: American Institute of Research.

Students Who Have Finished at Stony Brook

• • Wonho Yeon - 5/19. "Education and Time Allocation within Marriage: How Does Human Capital Affect Husband's Housework Time." Placement: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.

  • Weibo Zhou - 5/20. "Why is the U.S. College Graduation Rate so Low? An Examination of the Changing Role of Family Structure across Student Cohorts." Placement: Dalian Maritime University.

  • Estefania Vergara Cobos - 11/20. "Essays on Market Disruption: Theory and Evidence." Placement: World Bank.

  • Dong Wook Kang - 1/22. "The Consumer Welfare Impact of ACA’s Reductions to Medicare Advantage Plan Payments."

  • Ying-hsuan Chao - 5/22. “A Quantitative Analysis of Relaxing UI Eligibility Requirements: Evidence from the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.” Placement: University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

  • Hyunjae Kang - 4/23. "Dynamic Tournament Model of Private Tutoring Expenditure." Placement: Kyoto University.

  • Boyang Li - 5/23. "“Airline Competition, Product Repositioning, and Welfare: An Empirical Analysis of Hidden-City Ticketing.” Placement: Digonex. 

  • Ping-Chang Lee -8/23. "Necessary or Unnecessary? Why are Rates of C-Sections so High?" Placement: VNS Health.

  • Zhuotong Xie - 6/24. "Why is There a Change in the Degree of Educational Assortative Mating?"

  • Yemiao Ke - 6/24. "Female Labor Supply and Family Decisions."

Students Working on Their Dissertation from Stony Brook University

• • Taek-Keun Lee, "Home Selling and Tax Reform."

  • Takahiro Moriya, "Online Dating and Consequences: Using Two-Sided Search Model."

  • Kamini Jain, "Impact of Child Disability on the Family."

  • Rong Wang, "The impacts of Renewable Energy on Electricity Markets: Emissions, Prices, Investment and Market Equilibrium."

  • Zhu Liang, "Risk Adjustment and Plan Design in Medicare Advantage."

  • Xin Lu, "Education Cost and Study Effort in Family Decision-Making Process Considering Mental Health ."

  • Hualong Diao, "Self-Selection and Decision to Participate in Clinical Trials: Evidence from Screening Trials for Lung Cancer."

  • Junyu Zhang, "Human Capital Investment in College Facing the Burden of Tuition."

  • Mansi Sharma, "Domestic Violence in India."

  • Jiaxu Han, "Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in the Car Leasing Market."

  • Chundi Guo, "Consumer Learning and Package Size Offering: The Turbulent US Beer Market."

  • James Gluzman, "The Welfare Effects of Accountable Care Organizations." 

  • Dana Golden, "Investment and the Transfer of Power: Dynamic Effects of Transmission in Electricity Markets."

  • Shafira Widjaja, "Selection into Job Training Programs: Evidence from Indonesia."

Undergraduate Student Advising

• • Tennille Checkovich, Partner, McGuire Woods.

  • Bridget Hiedemann, Professor, University of Seattle.

  • Petra Todd, Professor, University of Pennsylvania.

  • Shuhui Chen, Undergrad at UVA: look at interview in Xiamen, China.

  • Margaret Carroll, coauthor on assortative mating paper.

  • Jiahua Liu, Grad student at Kennedy School.

  • Dan Yu, coauthor on paper about effects on labor market outcomes of interactions between transportation availability and vocational rehabilitation.

  • Mirha Khan, research assistant on assortative mating paper, student at Mt. Holyoke.

  • Arudra Baradwaj, research assistant on mental health project.

  • Ruchitha Arvapally, coauthor on mental health project.   

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