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

  • 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 Aquisitions

  • First Placement: Despository 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 Committe Member

Hugo Sant’Anna, University of Georgia, in progress

  • 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

  • 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)