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Michelle Jiang
Economics PhD Student at Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Michelle Jiang is an accomplished academic who recently graduated with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2024. She specialized in education, labor, and behavioral economics during her doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.2 Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2016 to 2018 and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree.23
Her research interests include the impact of subjective beliefs on labor market conditions, as demonstrated by her field experiment on wage beliefs and job search behavior among undergraduate students.1 She has also explored topics such as minority turnout and representation under cumulative voting systems and the effects of layoff shocks on job mobility.1
Michelle Jiang has transitioned to a role as an Assistant Professor at UMass Boston, continuing her work in behavioral and labor economics.35 Additionally, she has been recognized for her teaching abilities, being described as approachable, kind, and insightful by students.4