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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.

Sudip Adhikari

Sudip Adhikari

Research interests: International Trade, Food and Health, and Causal Analysis
Job Market Paper: Trade Retaliation and the Reallocation of U.S. Agricultural Exports: Evidence from the U.S.–China Trade War
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Dissertation Chairs: Jason Grant, George Davis
Email: sudip21@vt.edu
Deepak Kumar

Deepak Kumar

Research interests: Environmental and Development Economics
Job market paper: Weaker Typhoons, Not Weak Effects: Local Economic Impacts of Low-Intensity Storms 
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Dissertation Chair: Anubhab Gupta
Email: deepak21@vt.edu
Renu Ojha

Renu Ojha

Research interests: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, Aquaculture Economics, and Food and Health
Job market paper: Techno-Economic Assessment of Advanced Technology Adoption in U.S. Shellfish Farming
Professional webpage | CV
Dissertation Chair: Jonathan van Senten
Email: renu21@vt.edu
Yuanyuan Wen

Yuanyuan Wen

Research interests
Environmental and natural resource economics, applied econometrics, climate change, environmental policy, agricultural production
Job market paper: Air Quality Impact of China’s Grain for Green Program
Professional webpageCurriculum vitae  
Email: yuanyuanw@vt.edu
Dissertation Chair: Wei Zhang