Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Abdou is a 3rd year PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. He is interested in development economics with a focus on agriculture and energy in Sub-Saharan Africa. He completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University with a major in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. He is a native of Senegal.
Ph.D., Economics
Cerrato is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics. He is interested in economic geography, macroeconomics and labor economics. Prior to coming to UC Berkeley, he studied at Bocconi University and the London School of Economics and worked as a Research Assistant at Chicago Booth.
Ph.D., Economics
Guarin is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UC Berkeley. He has a B.A. in Economics and a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Universidad EAFIT in Colombia. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked for four years at the Applied Microeconomics Research Department of the Central Bank of Colombia. His fields of interest are Public Economics, Labor Economics and Development Economics. His current research agenda focuses on the evaluation of a place-based policy that randomly assigns physicians to medically underserved communities throughout Colombia.
Ph.D., Economics
Caleb Wroblewski is a PhD student in Economics at U.C. Berkeley. His research interests are in macroeconomics, public finance, and labor markets. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago.
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Cristina is a PhD student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, studying urban energy transitions, electrification policies, and technology uptake in the backdrop of an increasingly disrupted grid. She is a Fulbright scholar and a Research Affiliate in the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she works on modeling hybrid energy plants and battery degradation. She holds a Dual Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering in Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) and École Centrale Paris (France).
Ph.D., Economics
Damián Vergara holds a BA and MA in Economics from the Universidad de Chile and is currently a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in economics at UC Berkeley. His main research interests are public and labor economics, in particular, topics related to inequality, taxation, labor market institutions, and discrimination.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Elena is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department. Her research focuses on the intersection between climate change and development. She is particularly interested in climate change adaptation and mitigation as it relates to natural disasters, extreme weather events, and temperature changes.
Ph.D., Economics
Gwyneth Miner is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at UC Berkeley, with research interests in labor, development, and spatial economics. Her current research examines how removing barriers to internal migration can decrease place-based inequality.
Ph.D., Economics
Hadar Avivi is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at UC Berkeley. Her main research interests are in labor economics and applied econometrics. Specifically, she is working on questions related to gender discrimination, and the effect of childhood location on long-run outcomes.
Project Title: Location Choice and Heterogenous Location Effects
Ph.D., Economics
Harrison Wheeler is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he and his research partner Patrick Kennedy are studying the impacts of "Opportunity Zones" created through the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In particular, they are looking into how the targeted tax incentives created through this program have affected local investment, employment, housing prices, and demographics in areas designated as underserved.
Ph.D., Economics
Javier is a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, whose research falls at the intersection of Public, Labor and Development Economics. He studies tax evasion in settings where employer-employee collusion is required and what are the limitations to it. Javier also studies disparities in property taxation in Brazil as well as startup responses to property taxes.
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Jesse Strecker completed his MPP at the Goldman School for Public Policy, and is currently a PhD student at the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) where he studies the political economy of sustainability transitions with a focus on the role of unions and social movements in the politics of climate change, energy, and decarbonization. He has worked in climate and labor advocacy for nearly fifteen years, serving as the Executive Director of Rhode Island Jobs with Justice, a Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator Ed Markey, and a Senior Fellow at Data For Progress. Jesse is the great-grandson of coal miners and a proud, resilient river rat, having grown up by the Russian River in Sonoma County, near the site of some of the most destructive wildfires in California's history.
Ph.D., Economics
Joan Martinez is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are at the intersection of labor, education, and applied econometrics. Her project work studies how teachers' gender bias affects adulthood outcomes, such as college attendance, career choices, employment, and wages. She uses panel information from Peruvian students in the Public School system nationwide, university enrollment information, and matched employer-employee records.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Kaleb is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department, a Filipino American, and a first generation college student. His research explores how firm and consumer behavior is adapting to climate change.
Ph.D., Economics
Nick Flamang is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He works on topics at the intersection of labor, macro, and behavioral economics, with a particular interest in questions of household finance like the ways households smooth out shocks to their income and wealth. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he worked as a pre-doctoral fellow for the Opportunity Insights Lab at Stanford University, and he holds an M.Sc. from Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.
Ph.D., Public Policy
Raheem Chaudhry is a PhD student at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His research considers the role of public policy in inhibiting or improving access to opportunity for low-income communities and communities of color. Previously, he was a Research Associate at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he studied the relationship between federal fiscal policy and trends in income and poverty.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Shreya is a graduate student at Berkeley's ARE program, studying development, labor and public economics. Her research interests center around how policies, institutions and social norms affect access to economic opportunity in developing countries.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Simon is a PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Simon's research interests lie at the intersection of development and environmental economics. He is particularly interested in questions relating environmental change and migration. Before entering graduate school, Simon worked at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, where he was a research assistant in the Climate Impact Lab. He received bachelor's degrees in economics and Arabic from UC Berkeley.
Ph.D., Economics
Sreeraahul Kancherla is a Ph.D. candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Economics and a Graduate Research Fellow at the National Science Foundation, with broad interests in public and labor economics. In his research, he explores various ways that the US tax and transfer system impacts labor markets.
