Economics - Job Market Candidates
Job Market Candidates
Economics Department PhD students are leading members of the next generation of innovative researchers, scholars and teachers. We are proud to support the next phase of their academic and professional lives.
To obtain additional information on job market candidates, please reach out to the Economics Department contacts below, or contact the candidate directly.
Placement Officer cason@purdue.edu
Shahidul Islam Expected Completion Date: July 2025
Shahidul Islam
Fields: Labor Economics; Public Economics, Development and Experimental Economics; Economics of Education
Dissertation Title: "Alone" Students' Academic Outcomes
Thesis Committee: Timothy Bond, Jillian Carr, Kevin Mumford (Advisor), Victoria Prowse
Linh Nguyen
Expected Completion Date: August 2025
Linh Nguyen
Fields: Econometrics, applied econometrics, financial econometrics
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Modeling the Persistence of Non-stationary Time Series
Thesis Committee: Mohitosh Kejriwal (Chair), Yong Bao, Joshua CC Chan, Brian Roberson
Huilin Zhang Expected Completion Date: July 2025
Huilin Zhang
Fields: Urban/Spatial, Trade, Applied Micro
Dissertation Title: Productivity Externality of Working from Home: Welfare and Policy Implications
Thesis Committee: Chong Xiang (Co-chair), Farid Farrokhi (Co-chair), David Hummels, Victoria Prowse
Wei Zhang Expected Completion Date: July 2025
Wei Zhang
Fields: Econometrics, Bayesian Econometrics, Applied Macroeconomics
Dissertation Title: Flexible Bayesian Time-series Models in Data-rich Environment
Thesis Committee: Joshua C. C. Chan, Yong Bao, Justin Tobias, Arman Sabbaghi
Sisi Zhou Expected Completion Date: July 2025
Sisi Zhou
Fields: Spatial/Urban Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics
Dissertation Title: Residential Sorting and Access to Consumption
Thesis Committee: Chong Xiang (Co-chair), Farid Farrokhi (Co-chair), Ben Zou
Xiaoyan Zhou Expected Completion Date: May 2025
Xiaoyan Zhou
Fields: Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics (Real Estate, Industrial Organization, Labor)
Dissertation Title: Papers on Spatial Econometric Models
Thesis Committee: Yong Bao (Co-chair), Joshua Chan (Co-chair) , Kevin Mumford, Ralph Siebert, Justin Tobias
