PhD Job Market Candidates 2025-2026

Placement Officers

rui.castro [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Rui Castro)
john.galbraith [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. John Galbraith)


Kefan Chen

Fields of Study
Development Economics, Political Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Job Market Paper

“Growth at the Margin: Political Incentives and Firm Behavior in China”

References
francesco.amodio [at] mcgill.ca (Francesco Amodio) (advisor)
nicolas.ajzenman [at] mcgill.ca (Nicolas Ajzenman) (co-advisor)
fabian.lange [at] mcgill.ca (Fabian Lange) 
 


Shu Chen

Fields of Study
Macro-Growth, Macro-Development

Job Market Paper
“Paths Out of Agriculture: Structural Change, Self-Employment, and Productivity Growth”

References
francisco.alvarez-cuadrado [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado) (advisor)
rui.castro [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Rui Castro)
markus.poschke [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Markus Poschke)


Olivier Gagnon

Fields of Study
Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics

Job Market Paper

"Are Recent Immigrants More Resilient to Job Loss? Evidence from Mass Layoffs in Canada"

References
nicolas.gendron-carrier [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Nicolas Gendron-Carrier) (advisor)
fernando.saltiel [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Fernando Saltiel) (co-advisor)
fabian.lange [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Fabian Lange)


Isabella Germinario

Fields of Study
Development Economics, Structural Transformation and Economic Growth, Applied Microeconometrics

Job Market Papers

"Reassessing Selection Effects on Sectoral Productivity Gaps: Evidence from Indonesia"

References
franque.grimard [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Franque Grimard) (advisor)
markus.poschke [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Markus Poschke) (co-advisor)
francesco.amodio [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Francesco Amodio)


Raphael Langevin

Fields of Study
Health Economics, Microeconometrics, Computational Economics

Job Market Paper
“Policy Learning with Observational Data: The Case of Hepatitis C Treatment for HIV/HCV Co-Infected Patients”

References
erin.strumpf [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Erin Strumpf) (advisor)
saraswata.chaudhuri [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Saraswata Chaudhuri) (co-advisor)
goulet_coulombe.philippe [at] uqam.ca (Prof. Philippe Goulet-Coulombe )(UQAM)
mehdi.ammi [at] carleton.ca (Prof. Mehdi Ammi )(Carleton)


Kaushil Patel

Fields of Study
Micro Theory, Decision Theory

Job Market Paper
“Price-Based Attention and Welfare”

References
rohan.dutta [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Rohan Dutta) (co-advisor)
larry.epstein [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Larry Epstein) (co-advisor)
licun.xue [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Licun Xue)


Tamara Pressman

Fields of Study
Behavioural Economics, Development Economics, Game Theory, Gender Economics

Job Market Paper
"Examining Controlling Behaviour in Trust Relationships: Sanctions, Restraint, and Reciprocity Across Contexts"

References
jim.engle-warnick [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Jim Engle-Warnick) (advisor)
franque.grimard [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Franque Grimard) (co-advisor)
sonia.laszlo [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Sonia Laszlo)
 


Linh Tran

Fields of Study
Applied Econometrics, Central Banks and Their Policies, Computational Techniques

Job Market Paper
“Central Bank Communication in Time of Crisis: Different Aspects of Linguistic Complexity”

References
john.galbraith [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. John Galbraith) (advisor)
francisco.ruge-murcia [at] mcgill.ca (Prof. Francisco Ruge-Murcia) (co-advisor)
alessandro.riboni [at] gmail.com (Prof. Alessandro Riboni) (Ecole Polytechnique)

 

 

 

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