This year's academic JM candidates

Academic Job Market Candidates 2024-25

In 2024/25, six of our current PhD candidates will be heading on to the international academic job market.

Dániel Gyetvai

Research interests :
Primary fields : Labour Economics, Policy Evaluation, Applied Econometrics
Secondary fields : Microeconometrics, Macroeconomics

Job Market Paper :
The Differential Wage Effect of Unemployment Insurance by Entitlement Status: A New Piece of the UI-Wages Puzzle?

References : Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po); Kerstin Holzheu (Sciences Po)

Daniel is a labour economist who uses simple theoretical models alongside standard econometric techniques to study the effects of labour market policies. His research interests include wage determination, employment, and the formation, upgrading, and allocation of human capital. In his job market paper, he investigates the differential impact of unemployment insurance benefits on wages for eligible versus ineligible individuals.

To learn more about Dániel Gyetvai, consult his website

Nourhan Hashish

Research interests :
Primary fields : Political Economy, Applied Micro, Development Economics
Secondary fields: A.I. Economics, Health Economics

Job Market Paper :
Drought Declarations and Voting Outcomes: Evidence from Tunisia

References : Sergei Guriev (London Business School and Sciences Po); Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po); Golvine de Rochambeau (International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group)

Nourhan's job market paper uses a novel dataset in a difference-in-differences framework to study the political implications of the change in policies protecting drought-impacted communities in Tunisia. In 2016, Tunisian government had drastically reduced support to farmers affected by droughts. Her paper shows that this resulted in lower vote share for the incumbent candidate in the second round of the 2019 presidential elections. The magnitudes are substantial: a one standard deviation increase in the district-level damage caused by droughts after the policy change leads to a decline in the incumbent’s vote share by 10.24 percentage points. It also shows that the likely mechanism is the rise of public discontent: the drought-affected districts had a higher number of violent protests relative to the policy change. She did not find significant effects on the voter turnout, parliamentary elections, trust in parliament or interpersonal trust.

To learn more about Nourhan Hashish, consult her website

Juan Sebastián Ivars

Research interests :
Primary fields : Microeconomic Theory, Industrial Organisation
Secondary fields : Organisational Economics, Behavioural Economics, Public Economics

Job Market Paper :
Contract Shifting vs. Contract Splitting in Public Procurement

References : Jeanne Hagenbach (supervisor, Sciences Po); Emeric Henry (Sciences Po); Antoine Ferey (Sciences Po); Pierre Fleckinger (MINES Paris-PSL)

Juan Sebastián is a microeconomist using theoretical and empirical tools to address applied economic questions. His job market paper identifies and measures how public officials manipulate the value of purchases in response to regulation and examines its welfare implications.

To learn more about Juan Sebastián Ivars, consult his website

Gustave Kenedi

Research interests :
Primary fields : Economics of Education, Labour Economics 
Secondary fields : Applied Microeconomics

Job Market Paper :
Older Schoolmate Spillovers on Higher Education Choices

References : Pierre Philippe-Combes (Sciences Po); Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po); Lindsey Macmillan (University College London)

Gustave is an applied microeconomist whose research lies at the intersection of intergenerational mobility and educational inequalities. In his job market paper, he investigates the determinants of students' higher education choices, focusing particularly on the role played by older schoolmates and teachers.

To learn more about Gustave Kenedi, consult his website

Leonard Le Roux

Research interests :
Primary fields: Development Economics, Urban Economics 
Secondary fields: Political Economy, Environmental economics

Job Market Paper :
Informality and Violence: Evidence from South Africa

References : Benjamin Marx (Boston University); Pierre-Philippe Combes (Sciences Po); Roberto Galbiati (Sciences Po); Gunnar Köhlin (University of Gothenburg)

Leonard is an applied microeconomist working on questions at the intersection of development and urban economics. In his job market paper he studies how violence can emerge from economic competition in a legal but informal market as a result of general failures in contract enforcement.

To learn more about Leonard Le Roux, consult his website

Itzhak Rasooly

Research interests :
Primary fields : Behavioural and Experimental Economics. 
Secondary fields: Microeconomic Theory

Job Market Paper :
How Manipulable Are Prediction Markets?

References :
Miguel Ballester (Oxford); Emeric Henry (Sciences Po); Robert W. Hahn (Oxford); Séverine Toussaert (Oxford)

Itzhak is a behavioural economist whose work blends experimentation (often in the field) with microeconomic theory. His research explores a variety of questions including why double auctions produce equilibrium prices, whether attitudes towards redistribution depend on attitudes towards race, and whether level-k reasoning underpins auction bidding. In his job market paper, he conducts the first large-scale field experiment on the manipulability of prediction markets.

To learn more about Itzhak Rasooly, consult his website

Diego de Sousa Rodrigues

Research interests : 
Primary fields : Macroeconomics, Heterogeneous Agents, Heterogeneous Firms, Fiscal Policy & Monetary Policy
Secondary fields : Optimal Policies, Business Fluctuations, International Lending and Debt Problems

Job Market Paper :
Inventories Matter for the Transmission of Monetary Policy: Uncovering the Cost-of-Carry Channel

References : Xavier Ragot (Sciences Po); Tim Willems (Bank of England); François Le Grand (Rennes School of Business)

Diego is a macroeconomist specialising in heterogeneous agent models and their role in understanding business cycles and optimal policy design. His job market paper explores a new mechanism capturing the cost-of-carry channel of monetary policy, showing how inventory costs influence pricing and link monetary policy to inflation dynamics.

To learn more about Diego de Sousa Rodrigues, consult his website

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