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.

Michele Tertilt, Alice Schoonbroodt, Larry E. Jones, Oksana Leukhina, Michael Bar at SITE - August 2005

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:

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"
Sangwook "Stanley" Cho s.cho at unsw.edu.au 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!
Mike Golosov golosov at mit.edu UMN PhD 2004 MIT Dissertation: "Essays in Dynamic Fiscal and Monetary Policy"
Oksana Leukhina UMN PhD 2005 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Dissertation: "Essays on Historical Evolution of Output and Population"
Urvi Neelakantan urvi at uiuc.edu UMN PhD 2005 University of Illinois Dissertation: "Child Support: Trends and Policy"
Luis Sánchez-Mier UMN PhD 2004 Universidad de Guanajuato Dissertation: "Political Influence and Economic Organization"
Alice Schoonbroodt UMN PhD 2006 University of Southampton Dissertation: " Baby Busts and Baby Booms: The Fertility Response to Economic Shocks"
Juan Sole JSole at imf.org UMN PhD 2003 IMF Dissertation: "Essays on International Finance"
Michèle Tertilt tertilt at stanford.edu UMN PhD 2003 Stanford University Dissertation: "The Effects of Family Structure and Property Rights on Fertility and Growth: the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa"
Aleh Tsyvinski tsyvinski at harvard.edu UMN PhD 2003 Harvard University Dissertation: "Optimal Dynamic Economic Policy"
Zhang, Yuzhe UMN PhD 2006 University of Iowa 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!

 

Laurence Ales
Francesca Carapella
Roozbeh Hosseini
Pricila Maziero
Facundo Piguillem
Anderson Schneider