Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy's Homepage at UVA: Personal Information

Oleksandr (Alex) Zhylyevskyy
Department of Economics
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400182 (US Mail & UVA Messenger Mail)
2015 Ivy Road, Room 312 (FedEX, UPS, & etc.)
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4182

Office: Wilson Hall 217
Office phone: (434) 924-7649
Fax: (434) 982-2904
Cell: (434) 227-2424
Email: oz9a@virginia.edu

My CV is available for download in Adobe .pdf format and MS Word .doc format.

Full legal name:

Oleksandr Zhylyevskyy (English)
Олександр Едуардович Жилєвський (Ukrainian)
Александр Эдуардович Жилевский (Russian)

Short name:

Alex (most purposes)
Sasha (family and close friends)

Note on name:

Since Ukrainian and English phonetics differ in many respects and Ukrainian uses Cyrillic alphabet, the English spelling of my name is rather complicated. The current transliteration is official as of 2001 and other versions of the spelling were used prior to that.

Date of birth:

January 8th, 1979

Place of birth:

Kherson, Ukraine

Citizenship:

Ukraine

Languages:

native: Ukrainian and Russian
fluent: English
basic: Polish, Turkish, and German

BA degree:

Economics (with honors), the University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy, June 28th, 2000

MA degree:

Economics (with honors), the Economics Education and Research Consortium at the University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy, June 28th, 2002

I was born and grew up in Kherson, a regional center in southern Ukraine. My parents, grandparents, and most relatives, including a half-sister, uncle, and cousin, live there, and my aunt and two other cousins are in Russia.

I attended Kherson humanitarian gymnasium No. 6 for my high school degree. While a schoolchild, I also danced in choreographic ensemble "Veseli Chobitky" (Merry Boots) and later played trumpet in Kherson music school No. 1.

I went on to do my undergraduate work at the University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy in Kiev (also spelled Kyiv), the capital of Ukraine. There, I specialized in economics and wrote my bachelor's thesis on the national economy's openness to international trade and financial capital under the supervision of Prof. I. Burakovsky. As an undergraduate, I joined a team that maintained the university student Internet center.

I did my graduate work for the master's degree at the Economics Education and Research Consortium MA program in economics at the University of Kiev-Mohyla Academy. There, I focused on labor economics and wrote my master's thesis on the human capital allocation in the economies of Ukraine and Russia under the supervision of Prof. A. G. Mughal and with support of Prof. J. D. Konieczny.

Presently, I am a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. My dissertation is about the economics of marital conflict and I am writing it under the supervision of Prof. Leora Friedberg, Prof. Steven Stern, and Prof. Amalia Miller. I taught introductory microeconomics in the spring of 2006 and earlier worked for a few years as a teaching assistant for graduate statistics and econometrics. In addition, I was a research assistant for Prof. Kamalini Ramdas.

I am generally interested in Ukrainian politics and legislative process and I occasionally contribute to related articles on Wikipedia. I also try to follow the U.S. and world politics.

My other nonacademic interests include UNIX system administration and trading on eBay. I am also a big fan of Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, and Babylon 5 TV series, as well as science fiction literature and movies generally.

In addition, I have some appreciation of music and over time I assembled a large collection of national anthems in MP3.

Please, click on a photo to view a higher quality version.

June 2000. BA Graduation,
with I. Burakovsky

January 2003. Washington, DC

June 2005. SCE Conference

April 2002. UKMA Student
Internet Center, Mr. Kvaskov
oils the tree

December 2002. Bear near
Dillard residence hall

April 2006. One of my two
Econ 201 sections