Category: Alumni

Former SMU PhD student Dipa Sarkar was promoted to full professor at Queensland University of Technology!

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Former SMU PhD student Dipa Sarkar was promoted to Full Professor at Queensland University of Technology in Australia! She was the student of Prof. Daniel Millimet.

Congratulations, Professor Sarkar!

Her university website: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/dipanwita.sarkar

Dissertation by SMU PhD graduate Seth Emblem was featured in Australian media

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The dissertation by Seth Emblem, a recent PhD graduate from SMU economics department, was featured by Inside Story, an Australian magazine featuring analysis, commentary and reporting by leading writers and researchers!

By surveying 300 Americans in late 2021, Seth’s dissertation shows that political partisan gaps tended to be smaller than people expected and that monetary incentives tended to diminish partisan gaps where they existed. 

See the Inside Story article here.

Alumni Punarjit Roychowdhury receives prestigious award

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Punarjit Roychowdhury received the prestigious “Prof. M.J. Manohar Rao Award 2021” from The Indian Econometric Society! The award is presented annually to an Indian economist under the age of 35 years for his/her outstanding contributions to quantitative economics while working in India. For more information click here.

Work by Recent Alumnus Jesse LaBelle Garners National Attention

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We are very proud of our recent alumnus, Jesse LaBelle. He graduated from SMU in 2020 with a BS in Economics with a focus on Mathematics. After graduating from SMU he joined the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, eventually becoming a Senior Research Associate, where he has had a tremendous impact. His work on multinational corporations was featured in the famous podcast – Trade Talks – “How multinationals avoid taxes through technology licensing”. In addition, his work on supply chain disruptions and inflation was cited by the United States White House in the 2024 Economic Report of the President. In Jesse’s words: “Being cited in the CEA report is a tremendous honor and exciting to know that the work we did has some real world policy relevance.”

Jesse is currently enrolled in the PhD program in Economics at Northwestern University, one of the top programs in the world. We wish him the best and look forward to many more great achievements.