Racial Equity & Economic Opportunity
Assisant Professor of Law
Abhay Aneja is Assistant Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. He studies how legal institutions affect economic and social inequality. His areas of interest include the law of democracy, criminal justice, and law and economics.
Associate Professor of Economics
Christopher Walters joined the economics department as an assistant professor after receiving his PhD in economics from MIT in 2013. He received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in 2012. In 2008, he graduated with a BA in economics and philosophy from the University of Virginia and received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Montialoux is an Assistant Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy. Her research interests include topics in labor economics, political economy, and economic history. She studies policies aimed at reducing deep-rooted inequalities in the labor market, with a particular focus on minimum wages and racial earnings gaps. She received her PhD from the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics in 2019.
Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
Conrad Miller is Assistant Professor of Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group. He earned is Ph.D. from MIT in 2014. Miller's research includes hiring, job networks, affirmative action in the labor market, and spatial labor market frictions.
Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of D-Lab
David Harding is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the D-Lab, which supports data-intensive research in the social sciences, humanities, and beyond. He studies poverty and inequality, urban neighborhoods, education, culture, and the criminal justice system. Harding’s methodological interests include causal inference and the integration of qualitative and statistical methods.
Professor of Economics
Nano Barahona is an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests lie in the fields of industrial organization and public economics. His work focuses on studying and quantifying the effects of government policies on individuals' outcomes and welfare, with an emphasis on health, educational, and environmental policies. He is also working on topics of affirmative action in college admissions in Brazil and Chile.
Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy
Rucker C. Johnson is the Chancellor's Professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy and a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. As a labor and health economist, his work considers the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances. He has focused on such topics as the long-run impacts of school quality on educational attainment and socioeconomic success, including the effects of desegregation, school finance reform, and Head Start. He has investigated the determinants of intergenerational mobility; the societal consequences of incarceration; effects of maternal employment patterns on child well-being; and the socioeconomic determinants of health disparities over the life course, including the roles of childhood neighborhood conditions and residential segregation.
Professor and James T. Marver Chair, Goldman School of Public Policy
Steven Raphael is a Professor and James T. Marver Chair of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His research focuses on the economics of low-wage labor markets, housing, and the economics of crime and corrections. His most recent research focuses on the social consequences of the large increases in U.S. incarceration rates. Raphael also works on immigration policy, research questions pertaining to various aspects of racial inequality, the economics of labor unions, social insurance policies, homelessness, and low-income housing. Raphael is the author (with Michael Stoll) of Why Are so Many Americans in Prison? (published by the Russell Sage Foundation Press) and The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record (published by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research).
