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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Department of Economics |
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Yaraslau Zayats |
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| Research Fields | Labor Economics, Development Economics, Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics | ||
| Thesis | “Schooling, Wages, and the Role of Unobserved Ability in the Philippines” | ||
| Education: | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Economics Ph.D. in Economics (expected completion: May 2006) Belarusian State Economic University, Minsk, Belarus B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude), 2001 | ||
| Research Papers | |||
| “Schooling, Wages, and the Role of Unobserved Ability in the Philippines”, Job Market Paper. | |||
| “Arbitrarily Normalized Coefficients, Information Sets, and False Reports of 'Biases' in Binary Outcome Models” (with Thomas Mroz), submitted for publication. | |||
| “School Quality, Family Background, and Student Achievement: the Case of Cebu”, 2004, Working Paper, Department of Economics, UNC at Chapel Hill. | |||
| “Early Life Health Outcomes and School Entry Progression in Cebu” (with Linda Adair, Haiyong Liu, Thomas Mroz, and Tetyana Shvydko), in progress, Carolina Population Center. | |||
| Academic Awards and Honors | |||
| 2005-2006 | Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship | ||
| 2005-2006 | Fellow, The Royster Society of Fellows, UNC-Chapel Hill (the highest honor awarded by the Graduate School to graduate students at UNC) | ||
| 2004-2005 | Georges Lurcy Fellowship in Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill (awarded to the most promising economics graduate student) | ||
| Teaching Awards | |||
| Spring 2003 | Vijay Bhagavan Award for Best Econ 10 Teaching Assistant, UNC-Chapel Hill (awarded based on student evaluations) | ||
| Conference Presentations | |||
| Southern Economic Association 2005 Annual Meeting, November 20, 2005 (presenter) | |||
| Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference (NEUDC) 2005, September 24, 2005 (presenter) | |||
| Population Association of America 2005 Annual Meeting, April 2, 2005 (presenter) | |||
| 2005 Economic Demography Workshop, held by RAND at the PAA Meetings, March 31, 2005 (presenter) | |||
| Population Association of America 2004 Annual Meeting, April 1, 2004 (co-presenter, with Thomas Mroz) | |||
| Professional Experience | |||
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| 09/04-present | Member of the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) Working Group, Carolina Population Center | ||
| 05/03-08/04 | Research Assistant. CEBU project, Carolina Population Center | ||
| Summer 2002 | Research Assistant. MEASURE Evaluation Project, Carolina Population Center | ||
| 2001-2002 | Research Assistant. Department of Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill | ||
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| 2002-2003 | Teaching Assistant. Department of Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill | ||
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| 2003-2004 | Senator. Graduate and Professional Student Federation, UNC-Chapel Hill | ||
| 02/03-05/04 | Graduate Assistant. High Performance Computing Group, Information Technology Services, UNC. Computational and Statistical Support | ||
| Professional Affiliation | |||
| American Economic Association Southern Economic Association Econometric Society Population Association of America Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics Honor Society) | |||
| Languages | |||
| English, Belarusian, Russian, French | |||
| References | |||
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Prof.
Thomas A. Mroz
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UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of Economics, CB#3305, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 | (919) 966-5395 tom_mroz@unc.edu | |
| Prof. David M. Blau | UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of Economics, CB#3305, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 | (919) 966-3962 blau@email.unc.edu | |
| Prof. Wilbert Van Der Klaauw (on leave) | Federal Reserve Bank of New York Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function 33 Liberty Street New York, NY 10045 | (212) 720-5916 vanderkl@email.unc.edu | |