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Alok Ranjan

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Contact Information

214 David Kinley Hall
1407 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

Biography

I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am an applied microeconomist with a primary interest in public economics and political economy, and a secondary interest in urban and labor economics. Methodologically, I employ causal inference and structural estimation techniques in my research. Prior to my doctoral studies, I obtained BS and MS in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

I am on the 2024-2025 Job Market!

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2025 (expected)
  • M.S., Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2017
  • B.S., Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2016

Courses Taught

Instructor 
  • Local Public Finance (Econ 490)  Spring 2022, Fall 2021
  • Economics of Labor Markets (Econ 440) — Fall 2020
Teaching Assistant
  • Economic Statistics II (Econ 203) — Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
  • Macroeconomics Principles (Econ 103) — Fall 2018