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.
Naveen Abedin
Research interests: Health, nutrition, food security, and climate change
Job market paper: How does the KSS Program impact the SSB intake of students: An investigation beyond Total Treatment Effect in RCT
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Email: naveenabedin@vt.edu
Dissertation chair: Susan Chen
Anukul Bhattarai
Research interests: Food and health economics
Job market paper: Food-at-home and food-away-from-home price volatility and COVID effects
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Email: anukul@vt.edu
Dissertation chair: George Davis
Chenyang "Nate" Hu
Research interests: Environmental and resource economics, energy economics, agricultural economics, and applied econometrics
Job market paper: (1) Impact of large-scale solar on property values in the U.S.: Diverse effects and causal mechanisms and (2) Improving ecosystem services from U.S. agriculture: Yield reserve vs. land retirement
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Email: huchenyang@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Darrell Bosch
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
Yanggu Li
Research interests: Environmental economics, agricultural economics, and applied econometrics
Job market paper: The impact of conservation practices on agricultural production and land value
Curriculum vitae
Email: yal@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Wei Zhang
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
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
Research interests: Climate change, agricultural production, environmental and natural resource economics, and applied econometrics
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
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
