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Ph.D. Job Candidates 2024-2025

Graduate Director
Gergely Ujhelyi
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Placement Coordinator
Amber Pozo
Graduate Program Administrator
713.743.3805
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Candidate

Fields of Interest/Thesis Title

References

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William Bennett

wrbennett@cougarnet.uh.edu

270-903-6961

Website

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Time Series Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Behavioral Economics 

"On Forecasting Rigidity and Progressive Taxation over the Business Cycle"

Bent Sorensen

David Papell

Kei-Mu Yi

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Jordan Holbrook

jcholbrook@uh.edu

208-993-1822

Website

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Labor, Health, Human Capital

“The Returns to Elite Sports Programs: Signaling or Value Added?”

Chinhui Juhn

Yona Rubinstein

Aimee Chin

Kim

Jeonghyeok Kim

jkim124@uh.edu 

832-212-3446

Website

CV

Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Public Economics

“The Long Shadow of School Closures: Impacts on Students’ Educational and Labor Market Outcomes”

Aimee Chin

Chinhui Juhn

Emily Hannum (University of Pennsylvania),

Blake Heller (Hobby School of Public Affairs)

Sameer

Sameer Malik

smalik9@uh.edu

Website

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International Trade, Development, and Public Policy

“How Do Unreported Intermediate Inputs Shape Supply Chains?”


 

Kei-Mu Yi

Bent Sorensen

Dietrich Vollrath

Pablo Pinto (Hobby School of Public Affairs) 

Mehedi Hasan Oni

Mehedi Hasan Oni

moni@uh.edu

832-206-3182

Website

CV

Macroeconomics, Inequality, Environmental and Energy Economics, Public Finance

"Commuting, Home Utilities, and Production: The Distributional Effects of Energy Price Shocks"

German Cubas

Bent Sorensen

Dietrich Vollrath

Vegard Nygaard

Yang Pei

Yang Pei

ypei5@uh.edu

832-417-4441

Website

CV

International Economics, Economic Growth , Macroeconomics and Financial Regulation

“Demographics, Trade, and Growth”

Kei-Mu Yi

Bent Sorensen

German Cubas

Yabo

Yabo Gwladys Vidogbena

yvidogbena@uh.edu 

832-247-6774

Website

CV

Development Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics

“Exposure to Heat and Student Cognitive Functioning”

Aimee Chin

Willa Friedman

Fan Wang

Verma 

Yujie Zhang

yzhang187@uh.edu 

832-306-7166

Website

CV

Environmental Economics, Health Economics, Economics of Education

“The Long-Term Human Capital Consequences of Natural Disasters: Evidence from India”

Elaine Liu

Fan Wang

Aimee Chin

Victor Zuluaga

Victor Zuluaga

vhzuluag@central.uh.edu

202-704-7894

Website

CV

International Trade, Macro Development, Labor Economics

“The Distributional Consequences of Trade in Distorted Economies”


German Cubas

Kei-Mu Yi

Bent Sorensen