Irisa Zhou is one of the winners of the inaugural Rising Star Award for her job market paper Skill Mismatches and Earnings Inequality Among College Graduates. Her paper examines why there is such differentiation in earnings among college graduates with the same major, despite having similar skills.

A PhD candidate in the Department of Economics, Zhou specializes in labour and macroeconomics issues. Her research uses quantitative macroeconomic methods and causal inference using tools like MATLAB and Python. [Read more…]