Koichiro Ito, Catie Hausman, and Leslie Martin (spell ARE) in Portugal

Koichiro Ito, Leslie Martin, and Catie Hausman spell ARE in Portugal

ARE Doctoral Job Placements 2003-2023

Fields listed in abbreviations below are ARP= Agricultural Resource Policy, DEV=Development, BEC= Behavioral Economics, DEM= Demography, ECMT=Econometrics, ERE= Environmental and Resource Economics, EEE= Environment and Energy Economics, FIN= Financial Economics, HE= Health Economics, IO=Industrial Organization, HIS= Economic History, LAB= Labor, POL= Political Economy, PUB= Public Economics, PUF=Public Finance, URB= Urban Economics, TR= Trade.

2024

Congratulations to Pierre Biscaye, Daniel Agness, Jed Silver, Leila Safavi, Michelle Chen, and Joel Ferguson on receiving your doctorate. The graduates are pictured here with ARE Graduate Advisor Carmen Karahalios at Commencement at the Greek Theater on May 13, 2024.

Daniel Agness (DEV, LAB)  Assistant Professor  Economics University of Maryland
Pierre Biscaye (DEV, ERE) Chaire Professeur Junior CERDI Université Clermont-Auvergne
Jesse Buchsbaum (ERE, IO) Fellow   Resources for The Future
Michelle Chen (DEV, IO, POL) Economist DIME World Bank
Daniel Kannell (ERE) Economist   Government Accountability Office
Subrata Kumar Ritadhi (DEV) Assistant Professor Economics Occidental College
Leila Safavi (ERE, IO) Post Doctoral Scholar (2024-25) Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU Law  New York University
  Assistant Professor (starting in 2025) Economics Pomona College
Jedediah Silver (DEV, TR) Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Economics and Management The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2023

   

Livia Alfonsi (DEV, LAB) Assistant Professor Harvard Business School, NOM Harvard University
Marshall Macdonald Blundell (ERE, IO) Senior Consultant   Demand Side Analytics
Joel Ferguson (DEV, ERE, TR) Post Doctoral Researcher Global Policy Lab University of California, Berkeley
Hal Gordon (ERE) Consultant   Demand Side Analysis
Wei Guo (ERE, URB) Post-Doctoral scholar (2023-2025)    RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment
  Junior Scientist (starting in 2025)   RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment
Qingyang Huang (DEV, POL) Assistant Professor Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development  Peking University
Jenya Kahn-Lang (EEE, IO) Post-Doctoral Scholar (2023-24) Stanford Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center Stanford University
  Fellow (starting in 2024)   Resources for the Future
Jaecheol Lee (ERE) Post Doctoral Researcher Climate Impact Lab The University of Chicago
James E. Sayre (TR, ARP)  Assistant Professor of CE/Specialist in Food Supply Chains Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Davis
Wenjun Wang (EEE, IO) Machine Learning Scientist   Wayfair
Eleanor Wiseman (DEV, ECMT, POL, TR) Post-Doctoral Scholar (2023-2025) King Center and Center for Food Security and the Environment Stanford University
  Assistant Professor (starting in 2025) Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin Madison
       
Post Doctoral Placement      
Bobby Harris (ERE,IO,PUB) Assistant Professor Economics Department Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

2022

Jesse Buchsbaum (ERE) Post Doctoral Scholar UChicago's E&E Lab  The University of Chicago
Yulei Shelley He (ERE,FIN) Economist   Amazon
Andrew Hultgren (IO, ERE) Assistant Professor Agricultural and Consumer Economics University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Wei Lin (DEV) Assistant Professor Economics The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Wenfeng Qiu ( ERE) Senior Economist   SiriusXM/Pandora 
James Sears (ERE) Assistant Professor  Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Michigan State University
Molly Van Dop Sears (ARP, ERE) Assistant Professor  Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Michigan State University
Matthew Suandi (HIST, DEV) Economist Division of Research and Statistics Federal Housing Finance Agency
Matthew Tarduno (ERE,PUB)  Post Doctoral Scholar (2022-2023 ) Harvard University Center for the Environment Harvard University
  Assistant Professor (starting 2023) Economics  University of Illinois, Chicago
Carly Trachtman (DEV,ARP, BEC) Associate Research Fellow Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division (MTID). International Food Policy Research Institute  (IFPRI)

ARE Class of 2022 at the Greek Theater, May 15, 2022

 

2021

Sébastien Annan-Phan (ERE) Research Scientist JD.com Silicon Valley Lab

Karl Dunkle Werner (ERE, EEE, PUB)

Economist Microeconomic Analysis U.S. Department of the Treasury
Hannah Druckenmiller (ERE, DEV) Fellow   Resources for the Future
Gabriel Englander (ERE, DEV) Post Doctoral Scholar (2021-2022)   University California, Santa Barbara
  Economist (starting 2022) Development Research Group World Bank

Luna Yue Huang (DEV)

Data Scientist   Waymo (Google)
Scott Kaplan (ARP, IO, ERE) Assistant Professor Economics U. S. Naval Academy
Benjamin Krause (DEV, POL) Director Development Innovation Lab University of Chicago
Megan Lang (DEV,BEC, ERE) Post Doctoral Scholar (2021-2022) King Climate Action Initiative JPAL
  Economist (starting 2022) Development Research Group World Bank

Peiley Lau (ERE, ARP, PUF)

Environmental Economist

National Center for Environmental Economics

Environmental Protection Agency

Ryan Olver (ARP,ERE) Research Agricultural Economist Structure, Technology, and Productivity Branch, Economic Research Service, USDA
Kate Pennington (ERE, POL) Economist Demographic Research Area U. S. Census
Vaishnavi Surendra (DEV) Post Doctoral Researcher   Precision Agriculture for Development

Catherine Wright (ERE, HE)

Senior Data Scientist  

Aetna, a CVS Health Company

Post Doctoral Placement

     
Ariel Zucker Assistant Professor Economics University of California, Santa Cruz

 

2020

Susanna Berkouwer  (DEV, EEE)  Assistant Professor Business Economics and Public Policy The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Léopold Biardeau (EEE,DEM) Attaché Temporaire d'Enseignement et de Recherche, Law, Economics and Management Université de la Polynésie Française, Tahiti
Claire Duquennois (DEV,LAB) Assistant Professor Economics University of Pittsburgh
Kwabena Donkor (BEC,IO,LAB) Assistant Professor Marketing (starting 2021) Stanford GSB, Stanford University
  SIEPR Postdoctoral Fellow (2020 – 2021)   Stanford University
Andy Hultgren (ERE) Post Doctoral Scholar Economics University of Chicago
Reid Johnsen (ARP, ERE) Research Data Specialist   California Department of Tax and Fee Administration
Elisa Duran Micco(IO,BEC,EEE) Post Doctoral Scholar Industrial Emgineering University of Chile
David McLaughlin(ERE, PUB) Economist   Environmental Defense Fund
Matthew Pecenco (DEV, LAB) Assistant Professor Economics Brown University
Deepak Premkumar (DEV,PUB) Research Fellow   Public Policy Institute of California
Manaswini Rao (DEV,POL) Post Doctoral Scholar Economics University of California, San Diego
  Assistant Professor (starting in 2023) Economics University of Delaware
Vaishnavi Surendra (DEV) Post Doctoral Scholar   University of California, Berkeley

Post Doctoral Placement

     
Aluma Dembo Lecturer (Assistant Professor)   IDC, Herzliya
Nick Hagerty Assistant Professor Agricultural Economics and Economics Montana State University

 

2019

Dina Gorenshteyn (ERE)  Economist Intern   Amazon
Stephen Harrell (DEV, LAB) Quantitative Researcher   Facebook
Jonathan Kadish Visiting Profgessor of Statistics Statistics Reed College
  Data Scientist as of 2019, Trinet, as of 2021 Instagram  Instagram
Erin Kelley (DEV) Economist

Development Impact Evaluation Unit

World Bank

Gregory Lane (DEV) Asst. Professor Department of Economics American University
Ellen Lin (ERE, URB) Economist   Amazon
John Loeser (DEV) Economist

Development Impact Evaluation Unit

World Bank 

Jonathan Proctor  (ERE)

2020 AAEA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Data Science Post Doctoral Fellow Harvard Data Science Initiative and Harvard University Center for the Environment (joint appointment)  Harvard University

Allyson Barnett Root (DEV, PUB)    

Economist II   Amazon

Deirdre Sutula (ERE, DEV) 

Economist  

United States Government Accountability Office

Daniel Tregeagle (ERE, ARP)   

Asst. Professor

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics 

North Carolina State University

Itai Trilnick (ERE, ARP) Data Scientist   Google

Shaoda Wang (DEV, ERE)  

Post Doctoral Scholar

Department of Economics and EPIC (2019-2021)

The University of Chicago
  Asst. Professor

Harris School of Public Policy (starting 2021)         

The University of Chicago

Matt Woerman (ERE, IO)   

Asst.  Professor Department of Resource Economics U Mass, Amherst
Post Doctoral Placement

Adrien Bouguen (DEV)

Asst. Professor

Department of Economics Santa Clara University

2019 Greek Theater Commencement.

 

2018

Danamona Andrianarimanana Research Specialist Economic Research Unit California  Dept. of Finance
Ceren Baysan Post Doctoral Scholar Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University
  Asst. Professor Department of Economics  (2019) University of Essex
Narayan Das Sr. Research Fellow Research & Evaluation Division (RED) BRAC Bangladesh

Tamma Carleton

2019 AAEA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Post Doctoral Scholar

Department of Economics

Univeristy of Chicago
  Asst. Professor

Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (2019)

University of California, Santa Barbara
James Gillan Economist   Amazon
Ernesto Guerra-Vallejos Assistant Professor Rader School of Business Milwaukee School of Engineering
Dan Hammer Fellow   National Geographic Society
Zhimin Li Asst.  Professor HSBC Business School  Peking University
Louis Preonas Post Doctoral Scholar Economics & Energy Policy Institute University of Chicago
  Asst. Professor Agricultural & Resource Economics (2019) Univeristy of Maryland 
Elizabeth Ramirez-Ritchie Data Scientist   AIRBNB
Ed Rubin  Asst. Professor Department of Economics University of Oregon

2018 Greek Theater Commencement.

 

2017

Kendon Bell Economist Landcare Research/Manaaki Whenua  Auckland, New Zealand
Joshua Blonz

Post Doctoral Scholar

  Resources for the Future
Fiona Burlig Post Doctoral Scholar Economics & Energy Institute University of Chicago
  Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy  (2018) University of Chicago
Elliott Collins Economist Kiva Labs Initiative Kiva Microfunds
Aluma Dembo Nuffield Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Economics University of Oxford
Xiaoxue Du Assistant Professor Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology University of Idaho
Seth Garz Post-Doctoral Fellowship  CEGA UC Berkeley
Sylvan Herskowitz Associate Research Fellow   International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Liang Lu Assistant Professor

Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology

University of Idaho
Xi Lu Assistant Professor Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore
Subrata Kumar Ritadhi Research Economist Strategic Research Unit Reserve Bank of India
Andrew Stevens Assistant Professor Agricultural Economics Mississippi State University
Rebecca Taylor Assistant Professor School of Economics University of Sydney

2017 Greek Theater Commencement.

 

2016

Lydia Ashton Assistant Professor Consumer Science Department, School of Human Ecology University of Wisconsin- Madison
Patrick Baylis Post Doctoral Scholar  Center on Food Security & the Environment Stanford University
  Assistant Professor 
 

Vancouver School of Economics

University of British Columbia (2017)
Lei Cheng Assistant Professor Economics and Management School Wuhan University
Walter Graf Associate   The Brattle Group
Angeli Kirk Staff Economist   Premise Data Corporation
Daley Kutzman Assistant Professor  Department of Economics Northwestern University
Gavin McCormick Executive Director   WattTime
Eduardo Montoya Associate   Cornerstone Research
Moon Parks Senior Economist Center for Economics United States Government Accountability Office

Obie Porteous

2017 AAEA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Assistant Professor Department of Economics Middlebury College
Zhen Sun Assistant Professor Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences Tsinghua University

Dilek Uz

Assistant Professor Department of Economics

University of Nevada, Reno

Yang Xie Assistant Professor Department of Economics University of California, Riverside

2015

Geoffrey Barrows

Post Doctoral Scholar ( 1 year) 

Grantham Institute London School of Economics
  CNRS Researcher Département d'Economie Ecole Polytechnique- Paris, France
Judson Boomhower Post Doctoral Scholar (2 years)  Institute for Economic Policy Research Stanford University
  Assistant Professor  Department of Economics University of California, San Diego (2017)

Siwei Cao

Assistant Professor School of Economics & Business Administration Beijing Normal University
Steven Buck Assistant Professor Agricultural Economics University of Kentucky
Lilia Chaidez Senior Economist   U.S. Government Accountability Office
Sikandra Christian Post Doctoral Scholar   Paris School of Economics
Rachel Gardner Clark Senior Utilities Economist  

Tacoma Power

Glynis Gawn Adjunct Professor Department of Economics UC Merced
Sam Heft-Neal Post Doctoral Scholar Dept. of Earth System Science Stanford University
Marieke Kleemans Assistant Professor Department of Economics University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
Yongdong Liu Assistant Professor School of Management University College London
Stanislao Maldonado Assistant Professor Department of Economics Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Reid Stevens Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Economics Texas A&M
Megan Stevenson Post Doctoral Scholar   University of Pennsylvania
Qu Tang Researcher   Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Gina Waterfield Economist   Brattle Group
Ciriacy-Wantrup Post Doctoral Placement
Rapahel Calel Assistant Professor McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University

2014

Manuel Barron Visiting Researcher CEGA U.C. Berkeley
Marshall Burke Assistant Professor Environmental Earth Systems Science Stanford University
Andrew Dustan Assistant Professor Economics Vanderbilt University
Guojun He Assistant Professor Division of Social Science and Division of Environment Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Kyle Emerick Assistant Professor Departmentof Economics Tufts University
Diana Lee Assistant Professor Department of Economics Occidental College
Ayako Matsuda Post doctoral Fellow Department of Economics University of Tokyo
Erica Myers Assistant Professor Agricultural and Consumer Economics University of Illinois
Renato Seixas Research Fellow Department of Economics University of Sao Paulo in Ribeirao Preto
Tiffani Shih Associate Research Economist   Precision Health Economics
Matthew Zaragoza-Watkins E2e Postdoctoral Fellow/High-Meadows Postdoctoral Fellow   Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Environmental Defense Fund
Di Zeng Postdoctoral Scholar LBNL University of California, Berkeley
Ciriacy-Wantrup Post Doctoral Placement
Svenn Jensen Assistant Professor  School of Economics & Business Norwegian University of Life Sciences

2013

Maria Bowman Sustainable Livestock Economics Fellow   Natural Resources Defense Council
Kate Foreman Consultant   NERA
Catie Hausman Assistant Professor Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan
Phu Viet (Frankie) Lee Post Doctoral Fellow in Environment Fullbright Economics Teaching Program, Vietnam Senior Researcher, Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (USAID)
Maya Papineau Assistant Professor Department of Economics Carleton University
Jessica Rider Economist Education, Workforce, and Income Security Government Accountability Office
Anna Spurlock Senior Scientific Engineering Associate Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Department Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chantal Toledo Postdoctoral Fellow EBI UC Berkeley
Lunyu Xie Assistant Professor Department of Economics Renmin University, China
Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Placement
Neil Thompson Assistant Professor Sloan School  MIT

2012

Jing Cai Assistant Professor Department of Economics University of Michigan
Sarah Dobson Assistant Professor Department of Economics University of Alberta
Luosha Du Consultant   The World Bank
Fei Han Economist Economist Program International Monetary Fund
Gianmarco Leon Assistant Professor Department of Economics University of Pompeu Fabra
Leslie Martin Assistant Professor Department of Economics University of Melbourne
Charles Seguin Assistant Professor Department of Economics L'Université du Québec à Montréal
Steven Sexton Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Economics NC State
Alex Solis Assistant Professor Department of Economics Uppsala University
Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Placements
David Anthoff Assistant Professor School of Natural Resources and Environment University of Michigan
Anthony Millner Research Fellow Grantham Research Institute London School of Economics
Katrina Mullan Assistant Professor Department of Economics University of Montana
Helene Ollivier Research Fellow Department of Economics University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and CNRS

2011

Rosangela Bando Economist   Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
Damian Bickett Assistant Professor   Williamette University
Howard Chong Assistant Professor School of Hotel Admininistration Cornell University
Ben Crost Assistant Professor   University of Colorado
Kyriakos Drivas Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Agricultural &  Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley
Alan Fuchs Research Economist Human Development Report Office UNDP
Erick Gong Assistant Professor International Politics and Economics Middlebury College
Brian Gross Assistant Professor   Humboldt State University
Santiago Guerrero Researcher   Central Bank of Mexico
Melissa Hidrobo Postdoctoral Fellow   International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Jenny Ifft Research Economist ERS Resource & Rural Economics Division USDA
Koichiro Ito Assistant Professor School of Business Boston University
Kelly Jones Postdoctoral Fellow   International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Peter Kelly Assistant Professor School of Economics Renmin University of China
Joanne Lee Economist   Mathematica
Fangwen Lu Assistant Professor   Renmin University of China
Elizaveta Perova Economist   World Bank
Biswo Poudel Visiting Scholar Agriculture and Resource Economics UC Berkeley
Lourdes Rodriguez-Chamussy Lecturer Economics Department George Washington University
Tom Sproul Assistant Professor Environmental & Natural Resource Economics University of Rhode Island
Abdoulaye Sy   Young Professionals Program World Bank
Quoc Viet Founder and President   Golden Bridge, Inc.

2010

Shanthi Nataraj Associate Economist   RAND
Jill Luoto Associate Economist   RAND
Jenny Liu Assistant Professor Department of Economics Portland State University

2009

Maoyong Fan Assistant Professor Miller College of Business Ball State University
Kristen Kiesel Assistant Professor Department of Economics California State University, Sacramento
Zhen Lei Assistant Professor Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering Pennsylvania State University
Clair Null Assistant Professor Rollins School of Public Health Emory University
Robert Santillano Researcher Human Services Mathematica
Jesse Tack Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Economics Mississippi State University
Rocio Titiunik Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Michigan

2008

Jenny Aker Assistant Professor Fletcher School Tufts University
Jennifer Brown Assistant Professor Kellogg School of Business Northwestern University
Ricardo Cavazos Chief Economist   COFEPRIS
Céline Ferré Economist (Young Professional) Human Development in South Asia The World Bank
Rui Huang Assistant Professor Agricultural & Resource Economics University of Connecticut
Ryan Kellogg Assistant Professor Department of Economics University of Michigan
James Manley Assistant Professor Department of Economics Towson University
Lyngun Nie Economist   Washington Mutual Bank
Hugo Salgado Assistant Professor Economics Department Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Susan Stratton Assistant Professor Department of Economics Smith College
Felipe Vasquez Professor   Universidad del Desarrollo in Concepcion, Chile
Muzhe Yang Assistant Professor Department of Economics Lehigh University

2007

Emma Aisbett Assistant Professor Crawford School of Economics & Government/Economics Program Australian National University
Sarah Baird Postdoctoral Scholar Center on Pacific Economies University of California, San Diego
Xiangyi (Daniel) Meng Assistant Professor School of Public Finance and Public Policy Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
Ralf Steinhauser Research Fellow Economics Program Australian National University
Hendrik Wolff Assistant Professor Department of Economics University of Washington

2006

Christopher Busch Climate Economist   The Union of Concerned Scientists
Claudio Ferraz Research Economist   Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Frederico Finan Assistant Professor Department of Economics UCLA

Meredith Fowlie

2007 AAEA Outstanding Dissertation Award

Assistant Professor Ford School of Public Policy/Economics University of Michigan
James Hilger Economist Bureau of Economics/Consumer Protection Division Federal Trade Commission
Bo MacInnis Research Fellow Institute for Social Research/Population Studies Center University of Michigan
Manisha Shah Assistant Professor Economics University of Melbourne
Jaya Sil Risk Modeling Officer JP Morgan Chase & Co
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere Assistant Professor Economics Georgia Institute of Technology, GATECH

2005

Jennifer Alix Assistant Professor Departmentof Economics University of Montana, Missoula
Tania Barham Assistant Professor Institute of Behavioral Science/Department of Economics University of Colorado, Boulder
Tomoki Fujii Assistant Professor Economics and Social Sciences Singapore Management University
Fang Lai Assistant Professor Education New York University
Andrew McKim Program Economist Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade Division United States Agency for International Development
Laura Schechter Assistant Professor Agricultural & Applied Economics University of Wisconsin, Madison
Karina Schoengold Assistant Professor School of Natural Resources/Agricultural Economics University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Jason Scorse Assistant Professor International Policy Studies Monterey Institute of International Studies
Guanming Shi Assistant Professor Agricultural & Applied Economics University of Wisconsin, Madison
Aaron Swoboda Assistant Professor School of Public & International Affairs University of Pittsburgh

2004

Yanhong Jin Assistant Professor Agricultural Economics Texas A&M University
Stephen Stohs Researcher/Lecturer Southwest Fisheries Science Center/Economics University of California, San Diego

2003

Caridad Araujo Visiting Assistant Professor/Consultant Public Policy Institute/Development Economics Research Group Georgetown University/World Bank
Kathy Baylis Assistant Professor Food & Resource Economics Group University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Nick Brozovic Assistant Professor Agricultural & Consumer Economics University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Sean Cash Assistant Professor Dept. of Rural Economy University of Alberta, Edmonton
Greg Graff Director of Research Research Bio-Economic Research Associates, Cambridge, MA
Karen Macours Assistant Professor Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University
Craig McIntosh Assistant Professor International Relations & Pacific Studies University of California, San Diego
Wolfram Schlenker Assistant Professor School of International & Public Affairs Columbia University
Ximing Wu Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Economics Texas A&M University