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Meet our Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

Thank you for visiting the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics placement page.

Its purpose is to give interested institutions a preview of our Ph.D. candidates available for employment. The following candidates are currently on the job market.

Yoonjung Lee

Yoonjung Lee

Research interests: Impact evaluation, nutrition and health, food and health
Job market paper: Impacts of fortified rice on children's outcomes in Cambodia
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Email: yoonjunglee@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Anubhab Gupta and John Bovay   
Leonard-Allen Quaye

Leonard-Allen Quaye

Research interests: Applied econometrics, time series analysis, development economics, and agribusiness
Job market paper: Exploring the dynamics of food commodity prices and weather anomalies using a STAR model
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Email: leoallen@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Shamar Stewart
Kiseok Shin

Kiseok Shin

Research interests: Trade and environmental economics
Job market paper: Trade and the environment
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Email: kshin@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Jason Grant
Yuanyuan Wen

Yuanyuan Wen

Research interests
Environmental and natural resource economics, applied econometrics, climate change, environmental policy, agricultural production
Job market paper: Social and ecological impacts of China’s grain for Green Program
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Email: yuanyuanw@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Wei Zhang
 
 
Yuetong Zhang

Yuetong Zhang

Research interests: Environmental economics, applied econometrics, and remote sensing
Job market paper: Protest responses in contingent valuation: A closer look using causal forests
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Email: yuetongz@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Klaus Moeltner