2024-2025 postdoctoral research associates and research fellows
As we move into the new academic year, the Economics Department is welcoming more than a dozen postdoctoral research associates and fellows to campus. This includes three outstanding economists–Pauline Carry, Kevin Dano, and Magnus Irie–who we will be lucky to officially welcome as new faculty members in the very near future.
From labor economics to experimental economics, the work and expertise of this year’s visitors spans a wide range of issues and topics. Learn more about each of them below–and make sure to say hi when you see them in the halls!
From Postdoc to Assistant Professor
Pauline Carry
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Industrial Relations Section
January 2025: Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton Department of Economics & Princeton SPIA
pauline.carry@princeton.edu | website
Pauline Carry’s research focuses on labor economics and macroeconomics, with a special interest in how employment contracts are determined and the role of labor market institutions. Carry recently completed a year as the Saieh Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Industrial Relations Section. In January, she will officially begin her appointment as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton. Carry earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in 2023.
Kevin Dano
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Econometric Research Program
January 2025: Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton Department of Economics
kd1156@princeton.edu | website
Kevin Dano works in econometrics, with a main focus on panel data and networks. Dano is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Econometric Research Program. In January, he will officially begin his appointment as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton. Dano earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2024.
Magnus Irie
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Bendheim Center for Finance
July 2025: Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton Department of Economics and the Bendheim Center for Finance
mi0206@princeton.edu | website
Magnus Irie’s research focuses on macroeconomics, finance, and wealth inequality. Irie is spending the 2024-2025 academic year with Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance. In July 2025, he will officially begin his appointment as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton. Irie earned his Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics in 2024.
2024-2025 Postdocs and Research Fellows
Hadar Avivi
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Industrial Relations Section
ha3691@princeton.edu | website
Hadar Avivi is a labor economist who studies intergenerational mobility, inequality, and policy design. She is spending the 2024-2025 academic year with the Industrial Relations Section. Starting Fall 2025, she’ll join the Department of Economics at University College London as an Assistant Professor. Avivi earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2024.
Olivia Bordeu
Postdoctoral Research Associate, International Economics Section
ogazmuri@princeton.edu | website
Olivia Bordeu studies trade and spatial economics, including the mechanisms behind different geographic costs or frictions like the determinants of commuting costs, migration costs, and capital costs across cities. Bordeu is spending the 2024-2025 academic year with the International Economics Section. Starting Fall 2025, she’ll join the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley as an Assistant Professor. Bordeu earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2024.
Victor Degorce
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance
degorce@princeton.edu | website
Victor Degorce’s research examines current topics in macro-finance and international economics from a long-run perspective. Degorce is spending the 2024-2025 academic year with the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. Degorce earned his Ph.D. in economics from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in 2023.
Danial Lashkari
Kenen Fellow, International Economics Section
danial.lashkari.econ@gmail.com | website
Danial Lashkari’s research interests lie in the areas of economic growth and technical change, international trade, and economic history. Lashkari is a Research Economist in the Research and Statistics department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He will be spending the 2024-2025 academic year as a Kenen Fellow with the International Economics Section. Lashkari completed a Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard University in 2017. He also holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
Jin Liu
Postdoctoral Research Associate, International Economics Section
jl2714@princeton.edu | website
Jin Liu’s research interests are in international trade, industrial organization, and firm dynamics, with a focus on innovation, technology adoption, e-commerce, and industrial policies. Liu is spending the 2024-2025 academic year with the International Economics Section. Starting Fall 2025, she will join the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor of Economics. Liu earned her Ph.D. in economics at New York University in 2024.
Bernardo Ribeiro
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics
br1090@princeton.edu | website
Bernardo Ribeiro’s research focuses on economic growth, innovation, and long-run economic development. Ribeiro is spending the 2024-2025 academic year with the Louis A. Simpson Center for the Study of Macroeconomics. Starting fall 2025, he will join the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) as an Assistant Professor of Economics. Ribeiro earned his Ph.D. in economics at Yale University in 2024.
Roman Gabriel Rivera
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Industrial Relations Section
rr4816@princeton.edu | website
Roman Gabriel Rivera is a labor economist studying policing and crime. Rivera is spending the 2024-2025 academic year with the Industrial Relations Section. Starting Fall 2025, Rivera will join the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor. Rivera earned his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 2023 and spent the 2023-2024 academic year as an Postdoctoral Scholar at the IRLE at the University of California, Berkeley.
John Sturm Becko
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance
jasturm@princeton.edu | website
John Sturm Becko’s research interests lie in trade, public finance, and macroeconomics. Becko is spending the 2024-2025 academic year with the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance. Becko earned a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 2023.
Maren Vairo
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Microeconomic Theory Group
mv3654@princeton.edu | website
Maren Vairo works in microeconomic theory. Vairo will spend the 2024-2025 academic year with the microeconomic theory group in the Department of Economics. In July 2025, she will join the Business Economics and Public Policy Department at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor. Vairo earned her Ph.D. in economics at Northwestern University in 2024.
Frederic Warzynski
Visiting Research Scholar, International Economics Section
frederic.warzynski@lmu.de | website
Frederic Warzynski’s research interests are in industrial organization, international economics, and organizational economics. Warzynsk is currently a visiting professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). He will be spending the 2024-2025 academic year as a Kenen Fellow with the International Economics Section. Warzynski earned his Ph.D. in economics from the Katholieke Universities Leuve (KUL).