Students
Doctoral advisees and their placements, dissertation committees, and undergraduate honors students.
Doctoral advisees (chair or co-chair)
Damilola Usman
Third year PhD student
Ramesh Dulal
In progress
Mahla Shourian
On the 2026 academic job market
Ahmed El Fatmaoui
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Wisconsin La Crosse
Syed Waleed Wasti
Assistant Professor, Salim Habib University
Dissertation committees (18)
| Student | Field | Completion |
|---|---|---|
| Yeganeh Karbalaei | Health Economics | 2028 (expected) |
| Md Shafiul Islam | Development Economics | 2028 (expected) |
| Emilien Segla Bernus Akotenou | Development Economics | 2027 (expected) |
| Sushant Singh | International Trade | 2026 (expected) |
| Dayuan Xie | Labor Economics | 2024 |
| Ahmed Chaudhry | Political Economy | 2024 |
| Salimeh Abedini Birang | Development Economics | 2024 |
| Huiming Zhang | Finance | 2023 |
| Sean Oconnor | Environmental Economics | 2021 |
| Saini Das | Development Economics | 2021 |
| Amir Tayebi | International Trade | 2021 |
| Trupti Chaure | Development Economics | 2021 |
| Xiao Liu | Public Finance | 2020 |
| Amal Abeysekera | Finance | 2020 |
| Gabriele Lattanzio | Finance | 2019 |
| Constant Yayi | Development Economics | 2017 |
| Yi Duan | International Trade | 2017 |
| Zexuan Liu | Industrial Organization | 2016 |
Undergraduate honors and master's research students
- Michael O'Connor (2026)
- Anna Hyslop (2026)
- Henry Martin (2026)
- Catherine Boyd (2026)
- Braden Bortz (2025)
- Jennifer Dunbar (2024)
- Shubhashree Sathe (2024)
- Kaleb Colibert (2024)
- Brandy Herrera (2021)
- Scott McLean (2019)
- Claire Kvicala (2018)
- Hameed Ahmed (2016)
For prospective students
PhD applicants. I advise students working in labor economics, health economics, and applied econometrics. Admission is through the Department of Economics; I chaired the PhD admissions committee from 2020 to 2023 and remain a member. If you are already admitted and would like to discuss working together, email me with a short note about the questions that interest you.
Master's applicants. See the Online MA in Econometrics page.
Undergraduates at OU. I supervise honors theses and directed readings in labor, health, and applied econometrics. Students who have taken ECON 4233 or an equivalent regression course are best prepared.