This year has been another good one for PhD student research, with eight papers accepted for publication coauthored by seven different current or former PhD students, based on research during their time here at Mizzou.  Below are some highlights; you can see all recent publications by faculty and students on our research page.

• Current 4th-year student Wei Zhao had a paper with her advisor accepted at The Econometrics Journal (ranked #35 in Economics by Scimago), titled "Comparing latent inequality with ordinal data."
• Former student Tai Lee's sole-authored job market paper was accepted for publication at the Journal of Labor Research: The Impact of Employment Protection on the Probability of Job Separation: Evidence from Job Duration Data in South Korea.
• In the journal Energy Economics, former student Kyungsik Nam and his advisor Zack Miller recently published "Modeling peak electricity demand: A semiparametric approach using weather-driven cross-temperature response functions."
• Professors Shawn Ni and Michael Podgursky had a trio of papers with former students: a comment with Fangda Wang published at AEJ: Economic Policy (#14 on this RePEc ranking), a paper with Xiqian Wang published at Journal of Human Resources (#22 on same ranking), and another with Xiqian Wang accepted at Journal of Pension Economics and Finance; and Shawn Ni had a fourth paper with former student Wei Kong accepted at Educational Researcher (ranked #5 in Education by Scimago).
• Lonnie Hofmann's first dissertation chapter turned into a coauthored paper with his advisor, forthcoming at the Austrian Journal of Statistics.