Meet our 2025-26 job market candidates! Over the next several days, we’ll feature individual candidates and their job market papers. A complete list of profiles is available on our website: https://t.co/CNlV655h2L #UChicago #EconJobMarket

The Kenneth C. Griffin Applied Economics Incubator @EconIncubat143 is accepting applications for a Spring 2026 AI research fellowship. Learn more at https://t.co/WE8ZtBEGn3 #economicresearch #aieconomics

We invite applications for an Instructional Professor position at rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Instructional Professor. Applicants in all fields of Economics will be considered. Apply here: https://t.co/WQpIw6pPQD EOE/Vet/Disability #UChicago #EconJobMarket #AcademicJobs

We invite applications for faculty positions at the rank of Instructor to begin in the 2026-27 academic year for a renewable term of up to three years. Learn more and apply: https://t.co/gmYB6XajeQ EOE/Vet/Disability #UChicago #EconJobMarket #AcademicJobs

We invite applications for a postdoctoral position in econometrics under the supervision of Department Chair Professor Azeem Shaikh. Learn more and apply: https://t.co/os14jgDKLT EOE/Vet/Disability #UChicago #EconJobMarket #Econometrics #AcademicJobs

Can governments in developing countries identify and selectively promote high-growth startups? Raman Chhina (@rschhina) provides new data, theory and empirical evidence from India. Read more: https://t.co/lSj3JawlgU #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Conroy's JMP studies how to aggregate treatment effects across multiple outcomes. He evaluates several existing methods and proposes a new method for optimal aggregation that ensures weights with good properties. Read more: https://t.co/1FHCg8x7o9 #UChicago #EconJobMarket

How should R&D subsidies be allocated across space? Quantifying the knowledge diffusion network across U.S. states, @Furkan_Kilic shows that local spillovers dominate—making the optimal policy further concentrate innovation in leading hubs. Read more: https://t.co/BkeqPtKUg6

What does optimal land-use policy look like? @YShijian measures land-use regulations in Cook County and computes optimal regulations in the presence of urban externalities. Read more: https://t.co/QeouQTokrA #UChicago #EconJobMarket

How do inequality and capital tax competition interact? Using a dynamic multi-country heterogeneous-agent model, Karan shows that inequality intensifies short-run pressure to cut taxes, but long-run savings ease it. Read more: https://t.co/wKdxd1bexx #UChicago #EconJobMarket

@kyung_clara works in labor and education. In her JMP, she studies the impacts of a reform that introduced financial bonuses for school districts based on graduates' outcomes. Learn more at https://t.co/h3m41zjP1K. Read more: https://t.co/VBkyTa43GB #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Do VATs distort inputs? Evidence from Pakistan shows that toggling a 17% VAT on electricity shifts firm demand by ~13%, driven by refund delays. Read more about Faraz Hayat's JMP: https://t.co/e2Gp8C5WVP #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Do poverty traps exist? @ed_jee's study of 27 RCTs finds they're real but rare. Though fixed costs make traps common, forward-looking behavior & productivity differences mean they only affect 25% of households. Read more: https://t.co/dIx7XdnJoO #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Pharmacy exits cause temp. declines in medication use but long-run increases. Closure-induced reallocations to higher-dispensing pharmacies combined with meaningful impacts of pharmacies drive the increases. Read more about @econbattles: https://t.co/G2OmN6XGrT #EconJobMarket

Karen's JMP shows how an auction designer facing unknown collusive arrangements should optimally design her auction in response. The optimal mechanism is to post a price and bring efficient collusion in-house. Read more: https://t.co/qXYYayOQcF #UChicago #EconJobMarket

@CunaMichae77590’s JMP studies the hidden curriculum—unwritten rules for success. Combining data and field experiments, he finds first-gen students engage less in key actions, e.g. networking, due to low awareness. Read more: https://t.co/vi1XlIj8S3 #UChicago #EconJobMarket

Government debt insures households if repaid through progressive taxation. Rising debt levels alter future taxes, and thus household risks. This shifts demand for risky and safe assets, impacting bond prices. Read more: https://t.co/S5MdD9ttaN #UChicago #EconJobMarket

How much do consumers benefit from the presence of local-service firms from other cities? The benefit can be limited, as they displace existing firms when competing for scarce high-demand locations. Read more: https://t.co/v8OZxEEWmo #UChicago #EconJobMarket

@JoHarris66 develops a market-based measure that puts diverse state-level GHG regulations on a common scale. She combines this measure with emissions and economic data to quantify impacts of climate policy in a spatial model. Read more: https://t.co/7xEpCoko22 #EconJobMarket

@haruka__uchida studies labor & education. Her JMP runs 2 field experiments to measure & disentangle forms of discrimination. She finds that hiding applicant names changes representation without reducing quality. Read more: https://t.co/DzSnXBT0FZ #UChicago #EconJobMarket