Meet our @UCSDEcon 2026-27 Job Market Candidates! Check back every day as we feature individual candidates and their job market papers. View the full list here: economics.ucsd.edu/graduate-… #EconJobMarket

Smith praised the division of labor but worried about its effect on citizens’ judgment. @GiampaoloBonomi’s The Division of Understanding studies how specialization shapes democratic accountability—and why it matters which jobs get automated. giampaolobonomi.com/ #EconJobMarket

What determines the adoption of modern financial institutions? In China, @CatoRiccardo finds that Christian missionaries contributed to modern banking, but these advantages disappeared under central planning and re-emerged with market reforms. Read more: riccardodicato.com/

Can informal markets complement public workers in service delivery? Torsha studies a staffing expansion in India to find citizen demand for informal brokers increase with higher public workers. Read more: torshachakravorty.github.io/ #EconJobMarket

How does intergenerational persistence shape structural transformation? @johnjuneau_econ JMP shows both inherited skills and inherited preferences explain persistence, but only skills have lasting impact on US industrialization. Read More: johnjuneau.github.io/ #EconJobMarket

When regulation raises costs by different proportions, every price rises, but the least burdened firms raise prices least. They become relatively cheaper, attract demand, and grow. @GCanedoRiedel studies this new mechanism: gabriel.cr/ #EconJobMarket

Does timely liquidity support affect families’ financial trajectories? @letian_yin studies timing of tax benefits for mothers in linked birth and credit records and finds persistent impacts among the financially vulnerable. Check out: letian-yin.github.io/ #EconJobMarket

Can tighter bank capital regulation make credit riskier? In @eastroot7’s JMP, Dongkeun shows tighter regulation shifts lending to NBFIs with looser underwriting, expanding credit to riskier borrowers and raising aggregate risk. Read more: sites.google.com/view/dongke… #EconJobMarket

What makes a mechanism simple? Linchen suggests a new way to think about simplicity: whether agents can find the dominant strategy by comparing pairs of neighboring strategies. Learn more at his website: linchenzhang.github.io/ #EconJobMarket

Many important policies change the incentives of taking up treatment for an entire population at the same time. In the absence of a control group unexposed to the policy change, how can we identify its causal effect? Read Vedant's JMP: vedant-vohra.github.io/ #EconJobMarket

How did expanding media networks reshape presidential campaigning? In his JMP, @SCantilloC shows news agencies helped speeches travel farther, changed where candidates went, and which voters their messages could reach. Read more: santiago-cantillo.github.io/ #EconJobMarket

Who wins with up-zoning? @phoxie58 shows how deregulation for ADUs capitalizes into land values, benefitting home owners and increasing property tax collections, even with low take-up. Check out his JMP, publications, and working papers at: philiphoxie.com/ #EconJobMarket

Vafa studies how technology gaps shape the effect of trade protection on manufacturing growth, exploiting differential county exposure to national tariffs based on distance to ports. His JMP won Best Graduate Student Paper at EIIT 2026. Website: vafabehnam.github.io

Should service providers include new content in subscription menu? Learn more at Kelvin's website: sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/ma…

Does connecting a village to markets make it richer? Studying newly created villages in Indonesia, @hmitchell_14 shows higher initial market access lowers long-run village income even as it shifts workers out of agriculture. Read more: harrisonwmitchell.github.io #EconJobMarket

How does rural productivity affect cities? In her JMP, @_IdaGri shows that rural agricultural productivity can raise service and manufacturing employment in cities through food trade without substantial migration Read more: idagri.github.io/ #EconJobMarket

High electric vehicle fast charging prices have negative efficiency and equity implications. Joshua Aarons explores the impacts of competition, fixed costs, capacity constraints, and consumer preferences on prices and welfare. Read more: josh-aarons.github.io/ #EconJobMarket

Can exposure to others' optimal decisions correct misconceptions? In his JMP, @Alisher_BV runs a laboratory experiment and shows that such exposure improves behavior, but the gains dissipate entirely once the environment changes. Read more: alisher-batmanov.github.io/ #EconJobMarket

How do mergers affect welfare when prices are regulated? In dialysis, acquirers close facilities, imposing transitional costs but making patients contestable—strengthening competition on quality and generating long-run benefits. Read more: anwitamahajan.com #EconJobMarket

How do peers shape partisanship? In his JMP, Kurtis shows that voters conform to exogenously assigned LDS church peers. A 5 pp rise in peers' Republican (Democratic) share raises Republican (Democratic) affiliation by 1 pp. Read more: kgilliat.github.io #EconJobMarket

Does cash enable farmers to take on more risk? @vinnyarmentano applies Modern Portfolio Theory to crop choice in Mali and shows instead that an unconditional cash transfer reduced portfolio risk with no return penalty. Read more: vincentarmentano.com #EconJobMarket