Thank you for your interest! The USC Department of Economics will feature our AY2025-26 Job Market Candidates who are available for employment on this page.
Placement Director
Nicolas Lambert
Placement Committee Members
Michael Droste
Mengsi Gao
Monica Morlacco
Shreya Bhardwaj
shreyab@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Gender in Economics, Applied Micro, Economics of Education
Advisor: Jeffrey Weaver
Minsoo Cho
minsooch@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Social Network Economics
Advisor: Geert Ridder
Yakup Kutsal Koca
koca@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Economics of AI and Innovation
Advisor: Pablo Kurlat
Jing Kong
jingkong@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Econometrics, Causal Inference, Semiparametric Statistics, Machine Learning, Applied Micro
Advisor: Timothy Armstrong
Minji Kwak
minjikwa@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Development, Applied Microeconomics, Political Economy, Economics of Education, Urban Economics
Advisor: Vittorio Bassi
Sneha Nimmagadda
snimmaga@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Development, Health, Public Economics, Behavioral Economics, Causal Inference Methods, Applied Micro
Advisor: Jeffrey Weaver
Jin Seok Park
jinseok@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Urban Economics and Housing Market, Labor Economics, Household Finance
Advisor: Matthew Kahn
Zili Yang
ziliyang@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Economics of Innovation, Business Economics, Economic Growth
Advisor: Caroline Betts
Zhengyi Yu
yuzhengy@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Labor Economics, Economics of Innovation & AI, Public Economics, the Future of Work, Applied Micro
Advisor: Simon Quach
Xiaoxin Zhang
xiaoxin@usc.edu | Website
Research Interests: Public Economics, Health Economics, Economics of Aging
Advisor: Pablo Kurlat