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Current Students on the Market
Placement director: Dr. Anna Klis (aklis@niu.edu)
Placement coordinator: Debra Woolbright (woolbright@niu.edu)
Past Graduate Placements
Kassahun Geleta
- Primary research interests: labor economics, applied econometrics, development economics, health economics
- Dissertation: Three Essays on the Effects of Parental Income and Labor Supply on Child Health and Labor Market Outcomes
- Advisor: Dr. Virginia Wilcox
- Email: kgeleta@niu.edu
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Mohammadreza Mahmoudi
- Primary research interests: financial economics, computational economics, econometrics
- Job market topic: Essays on Computational and Financial Economics
- Advisor: Dr. Evan Anderson
- Email: mmahmoudi@niu.edu
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Sylvie Sanou
- Primary research interests: labor economics, health economics, education, finance and development economics.
- Secondary research interests: public finance and economic growth
- Job market topic: Three Essays on the Impact of Debt on Young American Adults' Lives After Graduation
- Advisor: Dr. Virginia Wilcox
- Email: ssanou@niu.edu
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Kristin Vrona
- Primary research interests: health economics, labor economics, public policy
- Dissertation: An Analysis of Mental Health and Absenteeism
- Advisor: Dr. Virginia Wilcox
- Email: kvrona2@niu.edu
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Department of Economics
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