Ph.D. Job Candidates 2025-2026

Graduate Director
Gergely Ujhelyi
gujhelyi@Central.UH.EDU 

 

 

Candidate

Fields of Interest/Thesis Title

References

Djima

Ezechias Djima

jdjima@uh.edu 

(832) 306-7353

Website 

CV

Areas of Specialty: Applied Microeconomics; Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Education Economics

Dissertation Title: Rethinking Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from West Africa Beyond the Co-Residence Sample Bias

Aimee Chin

 Vikram Maheshri

 Chinhui Juhn 

Yona Rubinstein

Nidhiri

Sebin Nidhiri

sbnidhiri@uh.edu

(832) 444-1066

Website

CV

Areas of Specialty: Macro-Finance, Time Series Analysis, Monetary Economics

Dissertation Title: Impact of Foreign Ownership of Bonds on the Mexican Yield Curve

Bent Sorensen 

David Papell 

Hyunju Lee 

Rivera

Javier Rivera-Catalán

jarivera19@uh.edu 

(713) 319-7474

Website

CV

Areas of Specialty: Macroeconomics, International Economics

Dissertation Title: “Commodity Prices, Sovereign Risk, and Macroeconomic Stability”

Kei-Mu Yi

Radek Paluszynski 

Bent Sørensen 

Horacio

Horacio Rueda

rhruedar@cougarnet.uh.edu 

(832) 661-0936

Website 

CV

Areas of Specialty: Macroeconomics, Labor, and Trade

Dissertation Title: “Minimum Wages and Firms’ Labor Market Power”

 

Kei-Mu Yi  

German Cubas 

Chinhui Juhn 

Yona Rubinstein