Job Market Candidates

We are pleased to present our 2025-2026 PhD Economics Job Market Candidates. 

If you have questions concerning our students or need further assistance to reach prospective candidates, please contact the dissertation advisor listed.

 

 

 

Brigitta Jones

Brigitta Jones
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Dissertation Title: The Political Economy of Rules with Applications to Private and Public Aid Programs
Advisor: Christopher Coyne
ccoyne3@gmu.edu 
Primary Fields: Political Economy, Applied Microeconometrics
Secondary Fields: Economic Sociology, History of Economic Thought
Job Paper: The Starbucks Safety Net: Solving the Samaritan's Dilemma
Email: bjones65@gmu.edu

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Benjamin Bauer

Benjamin W. Bauer
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Dissertation Title: Economics of the Catholic Church
Advisor: Peter Leeson
pleeson@gmu.edu 
Primary Fields: Applied Political Economy
Secondary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Religion
Job Paper: Competition Within the Church: Market Entry and the Rise of Traditional Catholicism in the United States
Email: bbauer2@gmu.edu

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Kurtis Hingl

Kurtis A. Hingl

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Dissertation Title: Essays on the Organization and Production of Knowledge
Advisor: Peter Boettke
pboettke@gmu.edu 
Primary Fields: Industrial Organization, Political Economy                          Secondary Fields: Applied Microeconomics
Job PaperThe Prestige-Testability Tradeoff in Science
Email: khingl@gmu.edu

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Michael Wroblewski

Michael Wroblewski

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Dissertation Title: The Redistributive Politics of the Federal Reserve
Advisor: Lawrence White
lwhite@gmu.edu 
Primary Fields: Monetary Policy and Political Economy                          Secondary Fields: Monetary History and History of Economic Thought
Job Paper: Why Money Isn't Neutral
Email: mwroblew@gmu.edu

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Anna Claire Flowers

 

Anna Claire Flowers

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Dissertation Title: Planning Childhood: Family Heterogeneity, Subjective Knowledge, and Economic Policy
Advisor: Peter Boettke
pboettke@gmu.edu 
Primary Fields: Applied Microeconomics, Public Choice            Secondary Fields: Historical Political Economy, History of Economic Thought
Job Paper: The U.S. Fertility Gap and Childcare Regulation
Email: anoblitt@gmu.edu

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