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Sudaraka Ariyaratne


Website | sk159@rice.edu

PAPER — The Cursed Cuppa: The Persistent Economic Effects of Sri Lanka's Colonial-Era Tea Plantations

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Development Economics, Institutions, Economic History, Gender and Family Economics, Applied Microeconomics

REFERENCES — Rossella Calvi, Isabelle Perrigne, Vivian Ho, Zach Bethune, Moramay López-Alonso

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John Coudsi


Website | jc163@rice.edu

PAPER — Retirement Decisions for Natural Gas and Coal Fired Plants in ERCOT

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Energy Economics, Energy Transition, Electricity Markets

REFERENCES — Peter Hartley, Kenneth Medlock

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Nicole Fleskes


Website | nfk1@rice.edu

PAPER — Regulation and Intermediation in Over-the-counter Markets

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Macroeconomics, Financial Economics

REFERENCES — Zach Bethune, Kerry Back, Shihan Shen, Benjamin Lester

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Yelda Gungor


Website | nfk1@rice.edu

PAPER — Selective Disclosure and Turnout in Corporate Voting

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Microeconomics, Corporate Finance, Econometrics

REFERENCES — Nina Bobkova, Hülya Eraslan, Mallesh Pai

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Jingyun Huang


Website | njh145@rice.edu

PAPER — Sequencing Auctions for Small Business: Evidence from Highway Procurement

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

REFERENCES — Yunmi Kong, Jeremy Fox, Isabelle Perrigne

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Masoud Jabbari


Website | masoud.jabbari@rice.edu

PAPER — Influencer-Brand Partnership: A Matching Approach

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Empirical Industrial Organization, Matching, Digital Economics, Quantitative Marketing

REFERENCES — Jeremy Fox, Arun Gopalakrishnan, Yunmi Kong, James Brown

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Stan Kannegieter


Website | sbk6@rice.edu

PAPER — Investing in Carbon Sequestration: the 'Nitrogen Crisis' in the Netherlands

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Environmental Economics, Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Energy Economics

REFERENCES — Ted Loch-Temzelides, Peter Hartley, Kenneth Medlock, Carrie Masiello

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Salpy Kanimian


Website | smk17@rice.edu

PAPER — Spatial Disparities, Selection, and Segmentation in Health Insurance

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Health Economics, Industrial Organization, Economics of Insurance, Public Economics

REFERENCES — Maura Coughlin, Vivian Ho, Flavio Cunha

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Joon Ha Kim


Website | jk85@rice.edu

PAPER — Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of Subsidies for Solar Panels in New York State

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Energy Economics (Renewable Energy and Electricity), Empirical Industrial Organization

REFERENCES — Peter Hartley, Kenneth Medlock, Tilsa Ore Monago

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Rose Li


Website | r.li@rice.edu

PAPER — Effects of Plant-Based Milk Alternative Labeling Policies

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Empirical Industrial Organization, Marketing, Applied Microeconomics

REFERENCES — Maura Coughlin, Isabelle Perrigne, Matthew Thirkettle

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Hansen Pen


Website | hp35@rice.edu

PAPER — Mergers, Market Structure, and the Rise of E-Cigarettes

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, and Energy Economics

REFERENCES — Jeremy Fox, Isabelle Perrigne, David Zhang

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Han Yan


Website | hy36@rice.edu

PAPER — Efficiency Gains, Welfare Trade-offs: The Economics of Mandated Heat Pump Adoption

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Energy and Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Development Economics

REFERENCES — Peter Hartley, Kenneth Medlock, Isabelle Perrigne

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Myoungji Yang


Website | myoungji.yang@rice.edu

PAPER — The Welfare Effects of Repealing Sales Tax on Menstrual Hygiene Products

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Empirical Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

REFERENCES — Xun Tang, Isabelle Perrigne, Jung Youn Lee

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Rui Zeng


Website | rz32@rice.edu

PAPER — The End of One Exam: Centralized Assignment Reform, Student Choice, and School Quality

RESEARCH INTERESTS — Economics of Education, Applied Microeconomics, Empirical Market Design, Labor Economics

REFERENCES — Flavio Cunha, Isabelle Perrigne, Ying Fan