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., Economics
Elaine Shen is a PhD student in the Economics department at UC Berkeley. Her research interests lie at the intersection of behavioral, labor, and public economics. Before coming to Berkeley, Elaine worked as a fixed income investment strategist at BlackRock.
Ph.D., Economics
Emily is an Economics Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley, with research interests in macroeconomics, public finance, labor economics, and economic history. Eisner's research project evaluates the impact of large one-time payments from a lawsuit on discriminatory lending practices on individual economic outcomes and political economy outcomes.
Ph.D., Economics
Lyubich is a PhD student in the Economics Department and a Graduate Student Researcher at the Energy Institute at Haas. Her research examines the relationship between inequality, local public goods, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Ph.D., Economics
Felipe is a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley, with research interests in public and labor economics. Prior to beginning his Ph.D., Felipe worked as an economist for the Brazilian federal government, concentrating on tax policies.
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
Manelici is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, she and her research partner Jose Vasquez are studying the effects of incentive policies designed to attract large multi-national corporations. In their current project, Isabela and Jose are looking into how these kinds of incentives are affecting firm productivity, employment rates, and economic activity in Costa Rica.
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., Sociology
LaBriola is a PhD candidate in Sociology. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he is studying the effects of land use regulations on housing supply throughout California and around the country.
Ph.D., Economics
Vasquez is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he and his research partner Isabela Manelici are studying the effects of incentive policies designed to attract large multi-national corporations. In their current project, Isabela and Jose are looking into how these kinds of incentives are affecting firm productivity, employment rates, and economic activity in Costa Rica.
Ph.D., Public Policy
Danesh is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he is studying the effects of federal policies targeted at "Medically Underserved Areas." In particular, he will be examining how incentives to attract doctors and changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates have affected the supply of physicians in these areas, spending on healthcare, and the health outcomes of individuals living in these areas.
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., Economics
Nick is a PhD student in the Economics department at UC Berkeley. His current research focuses on the impact of local labor demand shocks (i.e. large job losses) on the outcomes of children growing up in affected regions, and what kind of policy response achieves desired outcomes.
Ph.D., Economics
Kennedy is a PhD student in Economics at UC Berkeley, a Graduate Research Fellow at the National Science Foundation, and a Research Fellow with the California Policy Lab. He received his BA from Stanford University, and has worked at the Federal Reserve Board and Treasury Department in Washington, DC and at Columbia University in New York City. His research interests focus on the intersection of labor economics, public finance, and economic geography.
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Ph.D., Economics
Zarate is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he is studying the relationship between public transit investments, commuting times, and labor power in Mexico City.
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.
