Susan Athey's Students (Graduate and Undergraduate)

 

Graduate Advising

 

Note 1: At MIT, only two faculty members formally form the Ph.D. committee, but students typically have more than two advisors.  I include here all students where I played the role equivalent of committee member, including meeting regularly and writing recommendation letters for the job market. 

Note 2: An asterisk indicates primary advisor or co-principal advisor.

 

Name Ph.D. Year Ph.D Institution Field Initial Placement Current Position
Margaret Hwang Smith 1996 Harvard Empirical Organizations Pomona same
Jaime Ortega 1998 MIT Microeconomic Theory, Organizations Universidad Carlos III de Madrid same
Sharon Novak 1999 MIT Empirical Organizations Northwestern Kellogg same
Max Amarante 1999 MIT Microeconomic Theory Columbia same
Paul Ellickson* 1999 MIT Empirical IO Rochester/Simon School Duke
Scott Ashworth 2000 MIT Applied Theory/ Political Economy Harvard Government Princeton Political Science
Astrid Dick* 2002 MIT Empirical IO, Banking Federal Reserve Board (DC) INSEAD
Katherine Doornick 2002 Stanford GSB Microeconomic Theory, Organizations University College Oxford same
Erin Baker 2002 Stanford MSE Microeconomic Theory/ Environmental University of Massachusetts, Amherst same
Mara (Berman) Lederman 2003 MIT Empirical IO University of Toronto Business same
Eiichiro Kazumori* 2003 Stanford Microeconomic Theory, Auctions Cal Tech Postdoc University of Tokyo
Donald Nichols* 2003 Stanford Empirical Health Economics Washington University, St. Louis same
Ravi Singh 2003 Stanford Microeconomic Theory, Organizations Harvard Business School same
Pai Yin 2003 Stanford Empirical IO, Auctions Harvard Business School MIT Sloan School
David Miller* 2004 Stanford Microeconomic Theory UC San Diego same
Amalia Miller 2004 Stanford Empirical Applied Microeconomics University of Virginia same
Kelly Wang 2004 Stanford Empirical IO, Banking, Econometrics University of Tokyo same
Morten Sorenson 2004 Stanford Empirical IO, Finance University of Chicago GSB same
Lu Han 2005 Stanford Empirical IO, Real Estate, Finance University of Toronto Business same
Catherine Tucker 2005 Stanford Empirical IO, Strategy MIT Sloan School same
Vinicius Carrasco* 2005 Stanford Microeconomic Theory, Organizations Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro same
Matthew Osborne* 2006 Stanford Empirical IO Department of Justice  
Ignacio Esponda* 2006 Stanford Microeconomic Theory New York University   same
Saumitra Jha* 2006 Stanford Development/ History/Political Economics/Theory Harvard University, Academy Scholar Post-Doc same
Nageeb Ali* 2007 Stanford Microeconomic Theory UC San Diego same
Enrique Seira 2007 Stanford Empirical Development/IO World Bank same
Sean Chu* 2007 Stanford Empirical IO Federal Reserve Board (DC) same

 

  

 

 

Undergraduate Advising

 

These students either wrote a thesis under my supervision, or else I served as an advisor and letter-writer for their graduate school applications.   

 

Name Undergrad B.A. Year Ph.D Institution Ph.D. Year Initial Placement Undergrad Thesis Title (My thesis advisees only)
Irena Asmundson MIT 1998 Stanford 2005 IMF The Impact of 911 Technology on Health Outcomes and Hospital Allocation for Automobile Accidents
Marcos Chamon MIT 1998 Harvard 2004 IMF  
Sandra Chan MIT 1998 MIT ABD   Charles River Associates
Winnie Choi MIT 1998 Stanford 2005 Barclays Capital  
Robin Greenwood MIT 1998 Harvard 2003 Harvard Business School  
Heather Wasserlain MIT 1999 NA     Technology and Market Structure of the Pre-Jet Aircraft Industry
Cristian Voicu Stanford 2002 Harvard     Dynamic Procurement Auctions with Capacity Constraints  (Stanford University Firestone Medal Winner)
Justin Svec Stanford 2003 Columbia     Default Risk in Banking
Alex Kendall Stanford 2004 MIT     Stochastic Bundling With and Without a Secondary Market (Sobieski Award Winner)
Florian Reichling Stanford 2004 NA     Effects of Reputation Mechanisms on Fraud Prevention at eBay
Julia Thornton Stanford 2004 Minnesota      
Eric Sun Stanford 2005 Stanford Statistics    

The Effects of Auction Parameters on Price Dispersion and Bidder Entry on eBay:

A Conditional Logit Analysis (Anna Laura Meyers Prize Winner)