Job Market Candidates
The PSE placement’s page gives interested institutions a preview of our Ph.D. candidates and Post-docs who are available for employment.
Candidates are assisted in the job placement by both their primary thesis advisors and the placement officer. The department assists students to prepare and distribute job market materials to potential employers.
The current placement officer is Angelo Secchi (angelo.secchi at psemail.eu). Our placement coordinator is Roxana Ban (roxana.ban at psemail.eu).
PSE candidates are displayed in 3 categories:
PSE PhD Students
Wei Bi
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Microeconomic Theory
- Secondary Fields: Game Theory, Industrial Organization
- Supervisor: Philippe Jehiel, Olivier Compte
- References: Philippe Jehiel, Olivier Compte, Régis Renault
- Job Market PAPER: Market for Talent under Asymmetric Information
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Max Weber Research Fellow at European University Institute (Italy)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Wei is a microeconomic theorist with an interest in game theory, bounded rationality, and industrial organization. His research studies agents' behavioral decisions in a market for talent under asymmetric information and brings a new insight into why this kind of market becomes an oligopoly.
Caroline Coly
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Labour Economics
- Secondary Fields: Gender, Education
- Supervisor: Eric Maurin
- References: Eric Maurin, Paola Profeta, Almudena Sevilla
- Job Market PAPER: It’s a man’s world: culture of abuse, MeToo and worker flows
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Postdoctoral position at University of Barcelona (Spain)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Caroline is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of labor economics and education, with a particular focus on gender norms. She exploits employer-employee administrative data sets and uses quasi-experimental econometric designs to better understand the dynamics that drive and propagate gender inequalities.
Alexis Ghersengorin
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Microeconomic Theory
- Secondary Fields: Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics
- Supervisor: Jean-Marc Tallon
- References: Jean-Marc Tallon, Pietro Ortoleva, Frédéric Koessler, Eduardo Perez-Richet
- Job Market PAPER: Grabbing the Forbidden Fruit: Restriction-Sensitive Choice
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Postdoctoral position at University of Oxford (UK)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Alexis Ghersengorin is a microeconomic theorist with a particular interest in decision theory and information design. His job market paper proposes and axiomatizes a choice model that accounts for agents' reactions to restrictions, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the forbidden fruit effect.
Maxime Gravoueille
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Public Economics
- Secondary Fields: Labor Economics
- Supervisor: Philippe Aghion
- References: Philippe Aghion, Stefanie Stantcheva, Sir Richard Blundell
- Job Market PAPER: Wage and Employment Effects of Wage Subsidies
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Assistant Professor at Monash University (Australia)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Maxime is specialized in Public Economics with an interest in labor studies and income dynamics. He combines the use of administrative data and quasi-experimental research designs to study the effect of public policies on labor market outcomes. His research sheds light on the impact of taxes and benefits on individuals’ labor supply decisions.
Yagan Hazard
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Theoretical and Applied Econometrics
- Secondary Fields: Labor Economics
- Supervisor: Luc Behaghel
- References: Luc Behaghel, Xavier D’Haultfoeuille, Toru Kitagawa
- Job Market PAPER: Hazard Yagan - Improving LATE estimation in experiments with imperfect compliance
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Assistant Professor at Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Yagan works in both theoretical and applied econometrics, focusing in particular on developing robust and efficient methods to estimate causal effects in commonly used research designs. He also develops a research agenda in applied labor economics, that often guides his work as an econometrician, by pointing to limitations in the standard applied economist’s statistical toolkit.
Ander Iraizoz Olaetxea
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Public Economics
- Secondary Fields: Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, Energy Economics
- Supervisor: Antoine Bozio
- References: Antoine Bozio, Julien Grenet, Eric Maurin
- Job Market PAPER: Saving for Retirement through the Public Pension System: Evidence from the Self-Employed in Spain
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Research fellow at Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation (UK)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Ander is specialized in Public Economics and studies the effects of pension policies and taxation. His research combines quasi-experimental settings with a wide range of administrative data to provide a deeper understanding of the determinants of firms' and taxpayers' behavioral responses to public policies.
Brian Jabarian
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Experimental Economics
- Secondary Fields: Behavioral Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Computational Economics
- Supervisor: Jean-Marc Tallon
- References: Jean-Marc Tallon, Nicolas Jacquemet, Leeat Yariv
- Job Market PAPER: A Two-Ball Ellsberg Paradox: An Experiment
- Placement: Nancy and Howard Marks Principal Researcher at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (USA)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Brian is an experimental and behavioral economist with an interest in computational economics. Through testable economic models, experimental tests, and computational methods, his research explores issues such as the importance of morality, complexity, or uncertainty in behavior and choices and develops applications in digital economics, environmental economics, and the economics of science and innovation.
Victor Saldarriaga
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Labor Economics
- Secondary Fields: Household Economics, Health Economics, Macroeconomics
- Supervisor: David Margolis, François Fontaine
- References: David Margolis, François Fontaine, François Langot, Suzanne Duryea, Isaac Baley
- Job Market PAPER: The Distributional Dynamics of Wages Over the Business Cycle
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Early Career Researcher at University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Victor conducts theoretical and applied research on search and matching in the labor market, with a particular focus on the analysis of job creation by firms and distributional wage dynamics over the business cycle. His research interests also span topics related to household and health economics in developing countries.
Morten Stostad
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Public Economics
- Secondary Fields: Experimental Economics, Machine Learning
- Supervisor: Stéphane Gauthier
- References: Stéphane Gauthier, Marc Fleurbaey, Emmanuel Saez
- Job Market PAPER: The Consequences of Inequality: Beliefs and Redistributive Preferences
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Postdoctoral position at FAIR Institute, Norwegian School of Economics NHH (Norway)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Morten is a public economist studying the interactions between the societal effects of economic inequality and individuals' preferences for redistribution. His research combines large-scale representative surveys, causal experimental design, and optimal taxation theory to quantify how such inequality externalities affect individuals and influence standard economic theory.
Julieta Vera Rueda
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Development Economics
- Secondary Fields: Early Childhood Development, Human Capital, Impact evaluation in developing countries
- Supervisor: Karen Macours
- References: Karen Macours, Sylvie Lambert, Luc Behaghel, Lucila Berniell
- Job Market PAPER: When fathers are gone - the consequences of paternal absence during the early years
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Research fellow at UCL London (UK)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Julieta is an applied development economist, who focuses on the role of fathers in the development of children in the early years by looking at the extreme case of paternal absence. As part of her research agenda, she is also involved in the evaluation of two interventions in Africa, a cost-effectiveness study of two early childhood parenting programs in Cote d'Ivoire and a project aimed at reducing menstrual stigma among school-girls in rural Madagascar.
Marie-Galante Young Brun
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Environmental economics
- Secondary Fields: Climate economics, Public economics
- Supervisor: Stéphane Zuber, Aurélie Méjean
- References: Stéphane Zuber, Katheline Schubert, Matthias Kalkuhl, Thomas Sterner
- Job Market PAPER: Public acceptability of carbon taxation: a model of political support with income and urban-rural inequality
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Junior Professorship at Leipzig University and Halle Institute for Economic Research (Germany)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Marie is an environmental economist studying climate change impacts and mitigation policies, with a focus on their distributive effects. She uses theory and integrated assessment modeling to investigate the welfare impacts of climate policies and the political constraints on their implementation.
Postdoc, PSE Alumni
Oscar David Barrera Rodriguez
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Political Economy
- Secondary Fields: Development
- Supervisor: Flore Gubert
- References: Flore Gubert, Thomas Piketty, Oliver Vanden Eynde
- Curriculum Vitae: Version française , English version
- Placement: Pending
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Oscar’s research interests lie at the intersection of development economics and political economy. He particularly focuses on understanding the role of information (disinformation) and social exposure on individual opinions and attitudes towards society in different contexts such as political preferences, migrations, child stimulation, and nutrition.
Annali Casanueva Artis
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Empirical political economy
- Secondary Fields: Social Media, Minorites
- Supervisor: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
- References: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra, Hillel Rapoport, Ruben Durante, Pascal da Costa (teaching)
- Job Market PAPER: From the street to the polls: social movements, social media and elections. Evidence from the Indignados movement in Spain
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Big data research group junior leader at Ifo Institute (Germany)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Annalí is an empirical political economist studying the causes and effects of modern protests with a specific focus on the role of social media. She uses original and rich data sources to show how street protest can change electoral behavior in the long run through social media networks; how social media exposure can broaden the base of sympathizers of minority groups' protests or how far-right protests can encourage hate crimes against migrants.
Marion Leroutier
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Environmental Economics
- Secondary Fields: Public Economics, Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics
- Supervisor: Katheline Schubert, Philippe Quirion
- References: Katheline Schubert, Philippe Quirion, Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Hélène Ollivier
- Job Market PAPER: The Cost of Air Pollution for Workers and Firms
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Fiscal Studies - IFS (UK) & Assistant Professor at Institut Polytechnique de Paris - ENSAE and CREST (France)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Marion is an environmental economist studying two major environmental issues, climate change and air pollution, using a variety of quasi-experimental designs applied to geospatial, administrative and survey data. Her research sheds light on the damage of pollution and the benefits of environmental regulation, with an emphasis on health and equity.
Postdoc hosted by PSE
Marieke Pahlke
EEA & ASSA Candidate
- Primary Field: Microeconomic Theory
- Secondary Fields: Game Theory, Economics of Information
- Supervisor: Jean-Marc Tallon
- References: Frank Riedel, Peter Klibanoff, Frédéric Koessler
- Job Market PAPER: Dynamic Consistency and Ambiguous Communication
- Curriculum Vitae: English version
- Placement: Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary)
- Candidate’s PSE page
Brief Candidate Profile:
Marieke is a theoretical microeconomist, focusing on incomplete information, uncertainty, and information design in game theory. In particular, her research studies how ambiguous information affects strategic behavior and how players can take advantage of ambiguous information to influence their opponents.