2025-2026 PhD Job Market Candidates
We are pleased to present our current job market candidates. As a group, they have much experience in presenting and publishing their research and in teaching.
Please feel free to review each candidate’s personal webpage by clicking on the link below. You may contact the candidates directly via email or reach out the Graduate Economics Program Director, Umut Dur, at udur@ncsu.edu, for more information about the candidates.
Sarah Bainn
- Research & Teaching Interest: Health Economics, Labor Economics
- Job Market Paper: The Effects of Reproductive Health Laws on Maternal and Infant Health
- Advisor: Raymond Guiteras & Adriana Corredor-Waldron
- Sarah Bainn’s personal webpage
- Sarah Bainn’s CV (PDF)
Soumi Chandra
- Research & Teaching Interest: Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Development
- Job Market Paper: Effects of Alternate Wetting and Drying on Water Savings and Rice Yields in the Philippines
- Advisor: Rod Rejesus
- Soumi Chandra’s personal webpage
- Soumi Chandra’s CV (PDF)
Avery Dobbins
- Research & Teaching Interest: Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Econometrics
- Job Market Paper: Herbicide Resistance and Genetically Engineered Seed Use
- Advisor: Roger von Haefen
- Avery Dobbin’s personal webpage
- Avery Dobbin’s CV (PDF)
Greg Ferraro
- Research & Teaching Interest: Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics
- Job Market Paper: Effect and Mitigation of Sea Level Rise on US Atlantic Agriculture
- Advisor: Zack Brown & Rod Rejesus
- Greg Ferraro’s personal webpage
- Greg Ferraro’s CV (PDF)
Yufei Fu
- Research & Teaching Interest: Agricultural Economics, Econometrics, International Trade
- Job Market Paper: Marketing “local”: Benefits and Geographic Reach of Using Place-Based Branding for Beer
- Advisor: Kathryn Boys
- Yufei Fu’s personal webpage
- Yufei Fu’s CV (PDF)
Ariel (De Fen) Hsu
- Research & Teaching Interest: Applied microeconomics, labor economics
- Job Market Paper: Interventions in Networks: Evaluating Positive Youth Development Program Participation in the U.S.
- Advisor: Melinda Morrill, Thayer Morrill
- Ariel Hsu’s personal webpage
- Ariel Hsu’s CV (PDF)
Junyeob Kim
- Research & Teaching Interest: Commodity Prices, Agricultural Economics, Time-series
- Job Market Paper: Commodity Price Super-cycle and Dynamic Connectedness
- Advisor: Barry Goodwin & Daisoon Kim
- Junyeob Kim’s personal webpage
- Junyeob Kim’s CV (PDF)
Alice Kilduff
- Research & Teaching Interest: Risk management, Social Inequality, Crop Insurance, Climate Resilience, Bioeconomic Modeling
- Job Market Paper: “The Land Never Mistreated Anyone, … People Do”: Race and Federal Crop Insurance Program Payouts in the United States
- Advisor: Rod Rejesus & Daniel Tregeagle
- Alice Kilduff’s personal webpage
- Alice Kilduff’s CV (PDF)
Lyazzat Sanat
- Research & Teaching Interest: Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics
- Job Market Paper: Promoting Cover Crop Use in the United States: The Role of State-led Incentive Programs
- Advisor: Rod Rejesus
- Lyazzat Sanat’s personal webpage
- Lyazzat Sanat’s CV (PDF)
Lumana Shakya
- Research & Teaching Interest: Environmental and Resource Economics, Development, Global Health, Energy
- Job Market Paper: Climate Change and Energy Consumption in Bangladesh
- Advisor: Raymond Guiteras
- Lumana Shakya’s personal webpage
- Lumana Shakya’s CV (PDF)
Clayson Shumway
- Research & Teaching Interest: Environmental and Resource Economics, International Economics
- Job Market Paper: Trade War and Ambient Air Pollution
- Advisor: Roger von Haefen & Harrison Fell
- Clayson Shumway’s personal webpage
- Clayson Shumway’s CV (PDF)
Yue Shan
- Research & Teaching Interest: Agricultural Economics, International Trade
- Job Market Paper: The Unexamined Effects of China’s Belt and Road FDI for Recipient Countries
- Advisor: Kathryn Boys & Daniel Tregeagle
- Yue Shan’s personal webpage
- Yue Shan’s CV (PDF)