Students

Ph.D. Main Advisor

Chengye Jia, Temple University, Ph.D. 2021

  • Dissertation: Essays on Microeconometrics and Labor Economics
  • First Placement: Assistant Professor, Shandong University of Finance and Economics
  • Co-authored Papers: Inference on Counterfactual Transition Matrices (with Karen Yang)

Sonia Karami, Temple University, Ph.D. 2021

  • Dissertation: Essays on Developing Treatment Effect Set-ups in Interactive Fixed Effects Models
  • First Placement: Data Scientist / Senior Quant, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
  • Co-authored Papers: Treatment Effects in Interactive Fixed Effects Models with a Small Number of Periods (Journal of Econometrics, 2023)

Emmanuel Tsyawo, Temple University, Ph.D. 2020

  • Dissertation: Estimating R&D Interaction Structures and Spillover Effects
  • First Placement: Assistant Professor, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
  • Co-authored Papers: Treatment Effects in Staggered Adoption Designs with Non-Parallel Trends

Qin Wei, Temple University, Ph.D. 2020

  • Dissertation: Essays on Banking Mergers and Acquisitions
  • First Placement: Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Afrouz Azadikhah-Jahromi, Temple University, Ph.D. 2019

  • Dissertation: Essays on Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the Labor Market
  • First Placement: Assistant Professor, Widener University
  • Co-authored Papers: Heterogeneous Effects of Job Displacement on Earnings (Empirical Economics, 2022)

Weige Huang, Temple University, Ph.D. 2019

  • Dissertation: Essays on Microeconometrics and Finance
  • First Placement: Assistant Professor, Wenlan School of Business, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
  • Current Position: Associate Professor, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University
  • Co-authored Papers:
    • Distributional Effects of a Continuous Treatment with an Application on Intergenerational Mobility (Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020)
    • Local Intergenerational Elasticities (Economics Bulletin, 2019)

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member

Hugo Sant'Anna, University of Georgia, Ph.D. 2025

  • Dissertation: Essays in Labor Economics: Environmental Shocks, Immigration, and Gender Wage Gap in Linked Employer-Employee Data
  • First Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Co-authored Papers: Difference-in-differences with bad controls (with Carolina Caetano and Stroud Payne)

Pablo Troncoso, University of Georgia, Ph.D. 2023

  • Dissertation: Essays in Formal Labor Supply and Intergenerational Mobility
  • First Placement: Instructional Assistant Professor, University of Houston

Chenchen Xie, Temple University, Ph.D. 2021

  • Dissertation: Essays on Microeconometrics and Business Economics

M.A. Main Advisor

Stroud Payne, University of Georgia, M.A. 2022

  • Thesis: Difference-in-Differences with Time-Varying Covariates and Empirical Applications
  • Ph.D. Placement: Vanderbilt University
  • Co-authored Papers: Difference-in-differences with bad controls (with Carolina Caetano and Hugo Sant'Anna)