Market Candidates 2018-2019
Placement Director
Susan Wolcott
Phone: 607-777-2339
Email: swolcott@binghamton.edu
Chanita Holmes
Curriculum vitae | Homepage | cholmes2@binghamton.edu
Job Market Paper: "Rainfall Shocks, School Enrollment and Completion in Developing Countries"
References: Christopher Hanes (Chair), Susan Wolcott, Nadine McCould, Solomon Polacheck
Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics, Development Economics
Duong Trung Le
Curriculum vitae | Homepage | dle1@binghamton.edu
Job Market Paper: "Government Centralization and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Dissolution of
Districts Councils in Vietnam"
References: Solomon Polachek (Chair), Ritam Chaurey, David Slichter, Ha Nguyen
Research Interests: Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Public Policy, Applied Microeconomics
Nusrat Abedin Jimi
Curriculum vitae | Homepage | njimi1@binhgamton.edu
Job Market Paper: "School Attendance Under Lottery Systems: Effects on Classroom Diversity and Academic
Achievements"
References: Christopher Hanes (Chair), Susan Wolcott, Subal Kumbhakar, Plamen Nikolov
Research Interests: Development Economics, Education Economics, Policy Evaluation, Applied Microeconomics
Zhezhi Hou
Curriculum vitae | Homepage | zhou3@binghamton.edu
Job Market Paper: "Growing from Spillovers: A Semiparametric Varying Coefficient Approach"
References: Subal Kumbhakar (Chair), Florian Kuhn, Wei Xiao, Shunan Zhao
Research Interests: Production Economics, Econometrics/Applied Econometrics, Spatial Econometrics
Leila Salarpour Goodarzi
Curriculum vitae | Homepage | lsalarp1@binghamton.edu
Job Market Paper: "Mahr and Divorce: An Islamic Marriage Concept and Its Effects on Intrahousehold
Bargaining Power of Couples"
References: Solomon W. Polachek (Chair), Andreas Pape, David Slichter, Ritam Chaurey
Research Interests: Labor Economics, Development Economics, Applied Micro Economics
Huiting Tian
Curriculum vitae | Homepage | htian1@binghamton.edu
Job Market Paper: "How to Survive and Compete: the Impact of Information Asymmetry on Productivity"
References: Subal Kumbhakar (Chair), Bong Joon Yoon, Kai Sun, Barry Jones (Teaching reference)
Research Interests: Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, Financial
Economics
Shivi Kalra
Curriculum vitae | Homepage | skalra1@binghamton.edu
Job Market Paper: "Modeling Social Learning as Epidemics Using Twitter Data"
References: Wei Xiao (Chair), Barry Jones, Florian Kuhn
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Econometrics
