2025-26 Job Market Candidates
Emma Wohl
Email: ewohl@uci.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/uci.edu/emma-wohl
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Effects of Health Insurance ‘Subsidies’ in Living Wage Ordinances on Sources of Employee Health Insurance Coverage”
Committee Members: Matthew Freedman, David Neumark, Yingying Dong, Marion Aouad
Joanna Williams
Email: joannw7@uci.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/joannawilliams/
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Religiosity and Education: New Evidence for Nineteenth Century”
Committee Members: Dan Bogart, Stergios Skaperdas, Mike McBride
Jiangdong Hu
Email: hjiangdo@uci.edu
Website: https://www.jiangdonghu.com/
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “From Text to Truth: How Large Language Models Decipher Stock-Market Analyst Reports”
Committee Members: Jan Brueckner, Jack Liebersohn, Chong Huang
Jyotsana Kala
Email: jyotsank@uci.edu
Website: https://jyotsanakala.com/
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Algorithmic Wage Discrimination: Evidence from Uber”
Committee Members: David Neumark, Guillaume Rocheteau, Michael Choi, Victor Ortego Marti
Alex Maciocco
Email: amaciocc@uci.edu
Website: https://www.alexmaciocco.com/
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Request for Quote Protocols”
Committee Members: Guillaume Rocheteau, Michael Choi, Gary Richardson, Pierre-Olivier Weill
Xueliang Wang
Email: xuelianw@uci.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/xueliangwang/home
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Market's Time-Varying Sensitivity to Macro News and Monetary Policy: the Role of Attention”
Committee Members: Eric Swanson, Fabio Milani, Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez
Santiago Campos-Rodriguez
Email: scampos4@uci.edu
Website: https://www.santiago-campos.com/
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Gendered Networks: CEO Homophily and the Performance Costs of Bias”
Committee Members: Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez, David Neumark, Priya Jha, Miguel Zerecero
Idil Tanrisever
Email: itanrise@uci.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/idiltanrisever
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: ““Upzoning and Neighborhood Change: Evidence from Los Angeles”
Committee Members: Matthew Freedman, Jan Brueckner, David Neumark
Jiwon Son
Email: json6@uci.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/uci.edu/jiwonson
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: ““The Effect of Aviation Fuel Taxes on Airline Operations A Brazilian Case Study”
Committee Members: Jan Brueckner, Amihai Glazer, Jiawei Chen
Kevin Peng
Email: kuangyup@uci.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/kevinpengecon/home
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Discrete Random Expected Utility: Theory and Experiment”
Committee Members: Igor Kopylov, Stergios Skaperdas, John Duffy
Emily Hope Anderson
Email: ehander1@uci.edu
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Training to Search: Police Training, Police Stops, and Public Safety”
Committee Members: Emily Owens, Vellore Arthi, Damon Clark
Renee Lee
Email: reneetl@uci.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/reneetlee/
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Property Values, Mello-Roos Tax and Efficient Local Public-Good Provision”
Committee Members: Jan Brueckner, David Agrawal, Matthew Freedman
Shubham Karnawat
Email: shubham.karnawat@uci.edu
Website: https://shubhamkarnawat.github.io/
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Dynamic Discrete Data Models with Correlated Errors”
Committee Members: Ivan Jeliazkov, Eric Swanson, Oliko Vardishvili
Levi Edwards
Email: levie1@uci.edu
Website: https://www.levi-edwards.com/
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Public Investment and the Social Returns of American Canals”
Committee Members: Dan Bogart, Stergios Skaperdas, Vellore Arthi
Gamaliel De La Torre
Email: gamalied@uci.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/gamaliel-de-la-torre/
CV: Curriculum Vitae
Title of Job Market Paper: “Work Requirements and Employment: Evidence from SNAP”
Committee Members: Matthew Freedman, David Neumark, Jan Brueckner