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PhD Job Market Candidates

This page contains a list of the Stevens Doctoral Program's current job market candidates for the 2025-26 academic year.

For our Economics candidates, please email Malaina Brown, Eric Budish, and Matt Notowidigdo. For our Finance and Joint Program in Financial Economics candidates, please email Stefan Nagel. Please contact Malaina Brown for all other job market candidates.

You can find candidates by area: Accounting, Behavioral Science, Econometrics and Statistics, Economics, Finance, Joint Program in Financial Economics, Management Science and Operations Management, and Marketing. Note that candidates entering the Marketing job cycle are currently live.

We also invite you to review job market candidates at the University of Chicago’s .

Candidates for the 2025-2026 cycle will be added to this page on a rolling basis. You can find full details about recent and past PhD student Career Outcomes on our site. 


Marketing

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Soaham Bharti

Job Market Paper: "Consumers Prefer Products that Work Using Directionally Consistent Causal Chains"
Dissertation Committee: Abigail Sussman (co-chair), Berkeley Dietvorst (co-chair), Daniel Bartels, and Kristin Donnelly
Research Interests: Consumer decision-making, causal reasoning, preference construction, multi-attribute choice, forecasting algorithms


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Soaham Bharti
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Hung Ho

Job Market Paper: "Overconsumption and Self-Control: Empirical Evidence from Cigarette Purchases"
Dissertation Committee: Avner Strulov-Shlain (chair), Pradeep Chintagunta, Jean-Pierre Dube, Andreas Kraft
Research Interests: Behavioral industrial organization, marketing & policy, retail pricing


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Hung Ho
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Yusu Wang

Job Market Paper: "When Quantity Provides Security: Financial Constraints Increase Consumer Preferences for Quantity"
Dissertation Committee: Abigail Sussman, Oleg Urminsky, Ann McGill
Research Interests: Consumer Behavior; Financial Resources; Corporate Social Impact; Financial Decision-Making; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Profitability; Experiments; Regression, Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing (NLP).


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Yusu Wang
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Ariel (Ningyin) Xu

Job Market Paper: "Reference-Dependent Pricing"
Dissertation Committee: Jean-Pierre Dubé (co-chair), Sanjog Misra (co-chair), Avner Strulov-Shlain, Bradley Shapiro
Research Interests: Differential Pricing, Empirical IO, Behavioral Economics


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Ariel (Ningyin) Xu