Pre-doctoral fellows at LDI
LDI occasionally hosts pre-doctoral fellows, helping them to prepare for Ph.D. studies, while assisting LDI researchers in their funded research activities.
Ilanith Nizard joined the Labor Dynamics Institute in 2024, after graduating from Hunter College in NYC with Bachelors and Masters of Arts in Economics, International Relations and Political Philosophy. Ilanith will work as the assistant data editor in the LDI Replication Lab, helping Dr. Vilhuber to conduct reproducibility studies and prepare transparency reports for the articles accepted at the American Economic Association’s journals.
Prior fellows
Sofia Encarnacion was a pre-doctoral fellow and assistant data editor from 2022 to 2024. She graduated from the University of Maryland – Baltimore County in Catonsville, MD with a BA in Economics, BS in Mathematics, and a minor in Gender Studies. She started a Ph.D. at Syracuse University in July 2024.
Michael J. Darisse worked at LDI as a Research Aide and Assistant Data Editor for the American Economic Association (AEA) from August 2020 to July 2022. During his time at Cornell, he focused on reproducibility verification for the AEA journals as part of the LDI Replication Lab. He began his PhD studies in the Department of Economics at Florida State University in fall 2022. Michael’s primary research interests are in the Economics of Education, Labor Economics, and Experimental Economics. He received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Economics from the University of New Hampshire.