Job Market Candidates: 2019-2020

Perry Ferrell

Website  CV   pmferrell@mix.wvu.edu

• Fields of Interest: 
• Public Economics, Political Economy, Law and Economics
• Job Market Paper: 
• Knowledge is Powder: Effect of Forecasting Services in Natural Hazard Management
• References: 
• Joshua Hall (Committee Chair), Alex Lundberg, Bryan McCannon

Candon Johnson

Website  CV   cjohns77@mix.wvu.edu

• Fields of Interest: 
• Urban and Regional Economics, Sports Economics, Health Economics
• Job Market Paper: 
• The Impact of the Olympic Games on Employment Growth
• References: 
• Brad Humphreys (Committee Chair), Bryan McCannon, Jane Ruseski

Arijit Ray

Website  CV   array@mix.wvu.edu

• Fields of Interest: 
• Health Economics, Human Capital Development
• Job Market Paper: 
• Conditional cash transfer schemes for female children and sex ratio at birth in India
• References: 
• Jane Ruseski (Committee Chair), Daniel Grossman, Brad Humphreys, Umair Khalil

Shishir Shakya

Website  CV   ss0088@mix.wvu.edu

• Fields of Interest: 
• Health Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Public Economics
• Job Market Paper: 
• Heterogeneous Effects of Medicaid and Efficient Policy Learning: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
• References: 
• Jane Ruseski (Committee Chair), Joshua Hall, Feng Yao

Yang Zhou

Website  CV   ygzhou@mix.wvu.edu

• Fields of Interest: 
• Public Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Applied Machine Learning
• Job Market Paper: 
• The Political Economy of Historic Districts: The Private, the Public, and the Collective
• References: 
• Joshua Hall (Committee Chair), Roger Congleton, Brad Humphreys, Michael Munger