Job Market Candidates

Muzi Ginindza

Personal Web Pagehttp://yemuzi.wordpress.com/

Research Fields: Empirical Macroeconomics, Applied Macroeconometrics

Dissertation: "Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics"

Research Papers:
"The Effect of Technology Shocks on Hours Worked at the Sector Level: A Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression Approach"
"Consumption and Investment Specific Technology Shocks on Industry Hours Worked"
"Investigating the Distribution Effect of Inflation Targeting" (co-authored with Dr. E. Maasoumi)

Bing Jiang

Personal Web Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~bjiang2/

Research Fields: Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Applied Microeconometrics

Dissertation: "Three Papers on Risk and Personality"

Research Papers:
"Are Entrepreneurs A Different Breed?" (Job Market Paper)
"Can Personality Type Explain Heterogeneity in Probability Distortions?"
"What Is behind Risk Preference Instability?"

Handie Peng

Personal Web Pagehttp://userwww.service.emory.edu/~hpeng4/

Research Fields: Health Economics, Law and Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics  

Dissertation: "Essays on the Economics of Risky Health Behaviors "

Research Papers:
"The Effects of Maternal Employment of the Initiation of Adolescent Risky Behaviors" 
“In Sickness and in Health: Same-Sex Marriage Laws and Sexually Transmitted Infections"(co-authored with Andrew Francis and Hugo Mialon)
“The Heterogeneous Effects of Weight on Wages by Teenage Weight Status" 

Jing Xu

Personal Web Page: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jxu37/

Research Fields: Health Economics, Labor Economics, Applied Microeconometrics

Dissertation: "Three Essays on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program"

Research Papers:
"Infant Immunization Coverage in the Post-SCHIP Era: An Instrumental Variables Approach " 
“The State Children’s Health Insurance Program and Birth Outcomes from Teenage Mothers"
“The Impact of SCHIP Expansion on Food Insecurity among Low-Income Families with Children "(co-authored with David Frisvold)