PhD Students
The following is a list of students currently enrolled in the PhD program.
2020 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo |
Fields |
Previous Degrees |
| Camila Ayala |
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Development, Applied Microeconomics |
MA & BA, Universidad de los Andes |
| Pierre-Loup Beauregard |
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Economics of Education, Labour, Public Economics |
MA, Queen’s University; BSc, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) |
| Sara Benetti |
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Development Economics, Political Economy |
Bocconi University |
| Kate Bleakley |
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MA, UC Denver |
| Igor Carreira |
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Macroeconomics, Applied Microeconomics |
MA & BA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV/EPGE) |
| Gabriela Diniz |
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Applied Microeconomics, Development |
BA, PUC-Rio |
| William Duan |
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Political Economy, Games on Network, Network Formation Games, and Coordination Games |
MA, UBC |
| Yeow Chong Goh |
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Labour |
MSc, The London School of Economics and Political Science; BSc, The University of Warwick |
| Kisho Hoshi |
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Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics |
MA & BA, Hitotsubashi University |
| Vibhu Pratyush |
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Political Economy, Macroeconomics, Econometrics |
MA, UBC |
| Bernardo Ribeiro |
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Applied Microeconomics, Development and Political Economy |
MA, PUC-Rio; BA, PUC-Rio |
| Oliver Vogt |
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International Economics, Macroeconomics |
MA, Columbia University; BA, University of St. Gallen |
| Zhaoxuan Wang |
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Labor, Development, Economic History |
MA, UBC; BA, Fudan University |
| Shiming Wu |
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Financial Economics, Labor Economics |
MSc, UBC; BEcon, Nankai University |
| Yuxuan Wu |
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Labour, International Trade, Development |
MA, Johns Hopkins University |
2019 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo |
Fields |
Previous Degrees |
| Spreeha Aggarwal |
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Development and applied microeconomics |
MA, University of Oxford |
| Daniel Jaramillo Calderon |
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Applied econometrics, development |
MA, UBC |
| Yau Tung Thomas Chan |
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Econometrics and game theory |
MA, UBC |
| Sudipta Ghosh |
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Macroeconomics, international finance |
MA, Indira Gandhi Institution of Development Research |
| Emma Kinakin |
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Applied microeconomics, environmental economics, labour economics |
MA, Queen’s University |
| Giulia Lo Forte |
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International trade, organizational economics |
MA, Bocconi University |
| Yupei Ma |
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Development economics, applied microeconomics |
BA (Econ and Management of Agriculture and Forest), Renmin University |
| Miguel (Pascuel) Plotkin |
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Labour, Political Economy and Development |
MA, University de San Andres |
| Jan Rosa |
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Macroeconomics, computational economics |
University Pantheon-Sorbonne |
| Aditi Singh |
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Political Economy, Public Economics |
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| Pablo Valenzuela |
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Applied microeconomics with a focus on labour, development and political economy |
MA, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile |
2018 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo |
Fields |
Previous Degrees |
| Deivis Angeli |
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Behavioural Economics, Applied Microeconomics |
MA, Escola de Economia de Sao Paulo; BA, Universidade de Sao Paulo |
| Tiago Bonomo |
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Labour, Development, Applied Microeconomics |
MA & BA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas (FGV/EPGE) |
| Paul Corcuera |
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Labour, Applied Econometrics |
MA, UBC; BA, Universidad de Piura |
Yige Duan
 |
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Labour, Applied Econometrics |
MA, National University of Singapore; BA, Fudan University |
| Francisco Eslava |
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Political Economy, Development |
MA & BA, Universidad de los Andes |
Sebastian Gomez Cardona
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Macroeconomics, International Finance |
MSc, LSE; MSc & BSc, Universidad EAFIT |
| Xiaojun Guan |
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Macroeconomics, Labour, Development |
MA, UBC; BA, New York University |
| Mila Markevych |
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Labour, Applied Econometrics |
MA, University of Saskatchewan; BA, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy |
| Fernando Secco |
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Political Economy, Development |
MA & BA, PUC-Rio |
| Ieda Matavelli |
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Labour, Development |
MA, University of Sao Paulo; BA, Insper |
| Allen Peters |
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Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics |
MA, University of Victoria; MSc, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; BSc, University of Alberta |
| Pooya Rashidi Ravari |
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Political Economy |
MSc & BSc, Sharif University of Technology |
| Federico Ricca |
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Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics |
MSc & BSc, Bocconi University |
| Luis Alejandro Rojas-Bernal |
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Macroeconomic Theory, Financial Macroeconomics, Monetary Theory, Econometrics |
MA & BA in Economics, Universidad de Los Andes; BA in Law, Universidad de Los Andes |
| Amirhossein Tavakoli |
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Empirical IO, Energy Economics, Health Economics |
MSc & BSc, Sharif University of Technology |
2017 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo |
Fields |
Previous Degrees |
| Ali Adibnia |
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Macroeconomics |
MSc & BSc, Sharif University of Technology |
| Sejin Ahn |
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Economic Measurement, Environmental Economics |
MA, UBC; BA, Sogang University |
| Gustavo Albuquerque |
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Applied Microeconomics, economics of crime |
MA, PUC-Rio; BA, Universidade Federal Fluminense |
| Gabriel Brown |
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Development Economics |
MA & BSc, University of Toronto |
| Joshua Catalano |
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IO, Public Economics |
BA, University of Colorado at Boulder |
Mahdi Ebrahimikahou
|
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Macroeconomics |
MSc, University of Calgary; BSc, Sharif University of Technology |
| Leopoldo Gutierre |
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Financial Development, Political Economy, Organizational Economics |
MA & BA, University of Sao Paulo |
| Sam Gyetvay |
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Labour |
MA, Queen’s University; BA, McGill University |
| Anubhav Jha |
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Behavioral & Experimental Economics, Micro Theory, Econometric Theory |
MSc, Indian Statistical Institute; BA(Hons) Delhi University |
| Ali Karimirad |
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Macroeconomics |
MSc, Sharif University of Technology; BSc, Amirkabir University of Technology |
| Yingyi Liang |
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Macroeconomics, Development |
MA, UBC; BSc, University of Hong Kong |
| Max Norton |
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Public Finance, Urban Economics, Subjective Wellbeing |
MA, California State University Sacramento, BA, Columbia University |
| Pedro Pessoa |
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Development, Political Economy |
MA & BA, PUC-Rio |
| German Vega Acuna |
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Development, Applied Microeconometrics |
MA, UBC; BA, University of Piura |
2016 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo |
Fields |
Previous Degrees |
| Nadhanael Gemaliel Vimala |
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Macroeconomics |
MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University; MA & BA, University of Kerala |
| Arkadev Ghosh |
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Development Economics, Micro Theory |
MSc, London School of Economics; MA (Hons), University of Edinburgh |
| Federico Guzman |
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Macroeconomics, Trade, Economic Growth |
MA, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; BA, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman |
| Leo Qian Li Ma |
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Empirical Microeconomics, Labour & Energy Economics |
MA, University of Toronto; BA, UBC |
| Ronit Mukherji |
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Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Public Economics |
MSc, University of Warwick; BSc, Presidency College (University of Calcutta) |
| Clemens Possnig |
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Game Theory, Econometrics |
MSc, Institute for Advanced Studies; BA, University of Graz |
Marcelo Sacchi de Carvalho
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Applied Microeconomics, Political Economy |
MA & BA, University of Sao Paulo |
| Catherine Van Der List |
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Labour |
BA, Middlebury College |
| Dongxiao Zhang |
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International Economics, Macroeconomics |
BA, UBC |
2015 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo |
Fields |
Previous Degrees |
| Davide Alonzo |
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Macroeconomics, Financial Economics |
Magistrale & Laurea, LUISS Guido Carli |
| Anand Chopra |
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Macroeconomics |
MA, Delhi School of Economics; BSc(Hons), University of Calcutta |
| Pablo Gutierrez Cubillos |
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Public Finance, Inequality Measurement, Natural Resources Economics |
Magister & Licenciado, University of Chile |
| Jasmine Yu Hao |
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Econometrics |
MA , UBC; BA(Hons), Waterloo; BBA, Xiamen University |
Jeffrey Hicks
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Public Finance, Empirical Public Economics |
MA, Queen’s; BA(Hons), Mount Allison |
| Sev Chenyu Hou |
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Macroeconomics |
MA, SFU; BA, Fudan University |
| Hao Li |
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Public Economics, Health Economics, Labour Economics |
MA, UBC; BA, Southwestern University of Finance & Economics |
| Neil Lloyd |
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Labour Economics |
MA, UBC; BSocSc(Hons), University of Cape Town |
| Vinicius Pecanha |
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Political Economy, Development Economics |
MA, Fundacao Getulio Vargas; BA, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Juan Felipe Riano Rodriguez |
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Political Economy, Economic Development & Empirical Methods |
MA, BA, BSc, Universidad de los Andes |
| Hugh Shiplett |
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Applied Econometrics, Urban/Regional Economics, Political Economy |
MA, Queen’s; BA, University of Minnesota |
2014 Entrance Cohort
| Name |
Photo |
Fields |
Previous Degrees |
Matthew Courchene
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Labour, Applied Econometrics |
MA & BSc(Hons), Queen’s University |
| Tsenguun Ekhbataar |
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Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics |
MPP, University of Tokyo; BA, Osaka University |
| Nicolas Franz Pattilo |
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Macroeconomics, International Finance |
MA, UBC; BA, University of Chile |
| Da Kang |
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International Economics, Monetary Economics |
MA & BSc, UBC |
| Benjamin Milner |
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Economics of Education and Crime |
MA, Queen’s; BA(Hons), Saskatchewan |
| Aruni Mitra |
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Macroeconomics, Development |
MSc, Indian Statistical Institute; BSc, St. Xavier College-University of Calcutta |
Adlai Newson
|
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Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics |
BA, UBC |
| Mengying Wei |
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Macroeconomics, International Finance |
MA, UBC; BSc, University of Amsterdam |
Michael Wiebe
|
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Political Economy, Development |
MA, Western University; BSc, University of Manitoba |
Upper Year Cohort
| Name |
Photo |
Fields |
Previous Degrees |
| Coral Gonzalez Gutierrez |
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Development, Labour, Environmental Economics |
BA, ITAM |
| David Macdonald |
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Law and Economics, Applied Econometrics, Public Economics |
MA, UBC; BA, SFU |