Larry E. Jones

Ph.D. Students

 

One of the great things about being at the University of Minnesota is that it has given me a chance to get involved with teaching and advising PhD students. Minnesota has been known for its students for years and I'm very lucky to have been involved with a great group of them during the short time I've been here. It begins with me/us challenging them, and ends with them teaching us some things that we never knew... they go from bright and eager first year PhD students, to struggling with research for the first time to co-authors. It's truly a wonderful transformation to be a part of. One of the best things about the program is the collection of PhD student workshops that we run. In these, a group of advanced students meet regularly (e.g., weekly in our case) with a couple of faculty members to try out their research ideas. It can be a bloody scene, but it is always a learning one as well.

At SED, Montreal, July 2010 Stefania Marcassa, Michele Tertilt, Alice Schoonbroodt, Pricila Maziero and Laurence Ales at the SED meetings in Istanbul, July 2009. Michele Tertilt, Alice Schoonbroodt, Larry E. Jones, Oksana Leukhina, Michael Bar at SITE - August 2005

Yale 2009 with Mike and Aleh

Arizona 2009 with Ali and Roozbeh Ali Shourideh works at the board. The Co-Authors... Larry with Nika

The Chari/Jones Workshop:

For my part it was the Boldrin/Chari/Jones workshop until Michele moved and now it is the Chari/Jones workshop. Click here to see more photos, etc.

 

 

Past Students:

The students I have worked with in the past and am working with now are a remarkable bunch. Here is a list of some that I have worked particularly closely with and who are now out in the cold real world making me proud:

Laurence Ales UMN Ph.D. 2008 Carnegie Mellon University Dissertation: “Risk Sharing with Private Information”
Michael Bar UMN Ph.D. 2005 San Francisco State University Dissertation: "On Labor Force Participation of Married Women:  The Case of the U.S. since 1959"
Sébastien Buttet UMN Ph.D. 2006 Cleveland State University Dissertation: "Essays in the Economics of Gender:   Theory and Quantitative Analysis"
Francesca Carapella UMN Ph.D. 2008 Federal Reserve Board Dissertation: “Banking Panics in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Framework”
Sangwook "Stanley" Cho UMN Ph.D. 2006 University of New South Wales Dissertation: "Household Wealth Accumulation in Korea" Best experience - when others were presenting. Worst experience - when I was presenting and Michele was sleeping!
Ceyhun Elgin UMN Ph.D. 2010 Bogazici University Dissertation: “Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics”
Mike Golosov UMN PhD 2004 Princeton Dissertation: "Essays in Dynamic Fiscal and Monetary Policy"
Roozbeh Hosseini UMN PhD 2008 Arizona State University Dissertation: “Essays on Insurance Markets and the Role for Government”
Oksana Leukhina UMN PhD 2005 University of Washington Dissertation: "Essays on Historical Evolution of Output and Population"
Stefania Marcassa UMN PhD 2009 Université de Cergy-Pontoise Dissertation: “Essays in Family and Labor Economics”
Pricila Maziero UMN PhD 2009 University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Dissertation: “Optimal Social Insurance and Non-exclusive Contracting”
Urvi Neelakantan UMN PhD 2005 Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Dissertation: "Child Support: Trends and Policy"
Facundo Piguillem UMN PhD 2009 Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance Dissertation: “Essays on the Political Economy of Taxation in Dynamic Settings”
Luis Sánchez-Mier UMN PhD 2004 Universidad de Guanajuato Dissertation: "Political Influence and Economic Organization"
Anderson Schneider UMN Ph.D. 2009 Infinium Capital Management Dissertation: "Three Essays on Public Economics and Heterogeneity"
Alice Schoonbroodt UMN PhD 2006 University of Iowa Dissertation: " Baby Busts and Baby Booms: The Fertility Response to Economic Shocks"
Ali Shourideh UMN Ph.D. 2012 University of Pennsylvania - Wharton Dissertation: "Essays in Dynamic Macroeconomic Policy"
Ctirad Slavik UMN Ph.D. 2010 Goethe University Dissertation: "Essays on Dynamic Economies with Frictions"
Juan Sole UMN PhD 2003 IMF Dissertation: "Essays on International Finance"
Simge Tarhan UMN PhD 2009 University of the Pacific Dissertation: “Essays on Corruption”
Michèle Tertilt UMN PhD 2003 University of Mannheim Dissertation: "The Effects of Family Structure and Property Rights on Fertility and Growth: the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa"
Aleh Tsyvinski UMN PhD 2003 Yale University Dissertation: "Optimal Dynamic Economic Policy"
Maxim Troshkin UMN PhD 2011 Cornell University Dissertation: “Essays in Dynamic Optimal Fiscal Policy”
Hakki Yazici UMN PhD 2009 Sabanci University Dissertation: “Essays on Dynamic Public Policy”
Ariel Zetlin-Jones UMN PhD 2012 Carnegie Mellon University Dissertation: "Essays on Macroeconomics and Financial Markets"
Yuzhe Zhang UMN PhD 2006 Texas A & M University Dissertation: "Essays on Dynamic Economies"

Current Students:

And there are always more ... For the last year and a half I've met with a smaller group of students that were not yet working on their dissertations. I have learned a ton from them, and now they are hard at work trying to finish their theses!

 

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