2025-2026 Job Market Candidates
Placement Officer: Keyvan Eslami (k.eslami@torontomu.ca)
Graduate Program Administrator: Karen Fajardo (ief@torontomu.ca)
Previous placements can be found here.
Chika Agbo
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Dissertation: "Essays on Labour Economics in Canada"
Job Market Paper: "Decentralized Immigration and Provincial Decision Making: A Model of PNP Competition"
Fields: Labour Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Public Policy
Supervisor: Nicholas Li
Alireza Baghbanferdows
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Dissertation: "Essays on Health Inequality in Canada: Evidence from Administrative Data"
Job Market Paper: "Is the Canadian Health Care System Truly Equal? Health Types, Health Shocks, and the Crowding-Out Effect of Universal Health Insurance" (external link)
Fields: Health Economics, Macroeconomics, Public Economics
Supervisor: Keyvan Eslami
Alfonso Oviedo
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Dissertation: "Essays on International Trade and Environment"
Job Market Paper: "Trade and Environmental Policy in Global Value Chains" (external link)
Fields: International Trade, Environmental Economics
Supervisor: Claustre Bajona
Amin Shirazian
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Dissertation: "Essays on Health Shocks and Other Precautionary Saving Motives"
Job Market Paper: (PDF file) "Marginal Utility Shocks and the Precautionary Saving Puzzle" (external link)
Fields: Macroeconomics, Health Economics, Computational Methods
Supervisor: Keyvan Eslami