Thank you for your interest! The USC Department of Economics will feature our AY2026-27 Job Market Candidates who are available for employment on this page.
Placement Chair
Placement Vice Chair
Placement Committee Members
Mengsi Gao
Sijia Chen
Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: “Neighborhood Employment and the Construction of Affordable Housing: Evidence from the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program”
Primary Advisor: Simon Quach
Yugen Chen
yugen.chen@usc.edu| WEBSITE
Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: “The Cure Can Be Worse Than the Disease: Interdependence Between Net-work Design and Cost Sharing in Medicare Part D”
Primary Advisor: Matt Kahn
Paul Delatte
Research Interests: Econometrics, Applied Econometrics
Job Market Paper: “Adaptive bias-variance trade-off: a robust Bayesian approach”
Primary Advisor: Hyungsik Roger Moon
Vanshika Fotedar
Research Interests: Energy Economics, Urban Economics
Job Market Paper: “The Case of the Missing Signal: Spatially Blind Battery Investments in California”
Primary Advisor: Paulina Oliva
Marco Lo Faso
Research Interests: Political Economy, Spatial Economics
Job Market Paper: “The Geography of Protests: Spatial Fragmentation, Exposure and Participation in the George Floyd Movement”
Primary Advisor: Thomas Chaney
Woo-Jin Kim
Research Interests: Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organization
Job Market Paper: “Consumer Learning and Competitive Inefficiency”
Primary Advisor: Guofu Tan
Nick Langston
Research Interests: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: “Regulatory Compliance and the Production of Science: Evidence from IRBs and the Common Rule”
Primary Advisor: Simon Quach
Mychaela Paetow
Research Interests: Development Economics, Environmental Economics
Job Market Paper: “Market Power and the Supply of Recyclable Waste: Evidence from Indonesia’s Waste Banks”
Primary Advisor: Paulina Oliva
Junha Park
Research Interests: Macro Finance, Monetary Economics
Job Market Paper: “When Debt Backs Private Money: Inflation and the Cost of Capital”
Primary Advisor: Pablo Kurlat
Juliana Pinillos
Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Urban Economics
Job Market Paper: “Long-Term Effects of Slum Upgrading on Climate Resilience and Urban Growth”
Primary Advisor: Paulina Oliva
Jerry Shen
Wei Xuan
wxuan@usc.edu | WEBSITE
Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Financial Economics
Job Market Paper: “Retail Demand Shock and Cryptocurrency Market Response: Evidence from Brokerage Outages”
Primary Advisor: Marianne Andries
Sai Zhang
Research Interests: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Job Market Paper: “Time Is of the Essence: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Job Application Timing”
Primary Advisor: Vittorio Bassi