Abhay Aneja

Abhay Aneja

Assisant Professor, 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.

Adam Leive

Adam Leive

Assistant Professor, Public Policy

Adam Leive is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy. He is a health economist who uses large administrative datasets to study policy-relevant questions about health insurance and safety net programs. His research seeks to understand consumer behavior in complicated life-cycle decisions that impact economic security, such as health insurance and retirement saving. He also studies the effects of employment incentives in safety net programs on labor market outcomes and program participation. 

Amy Lerman

Amy Lerman

Michelle Schwartz Endowed Professor of Public Policy and Political Science

Amy E. Lerman is a political scientist who studies issues of race, public opinion, and political behavior, especially as they relate to punishment and social inequality in America. She is the author of two books on the American criminal justice system—The Modern Prison Paradox and Arresting Citizenship. Her most recent book, Good Enough for Government Work examines how perceptions of government shape citizens’ attitudes toward privatization.

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Antoine Levy

Antoine Levy

Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business

Antoine Levy is an Assistant Professor at the Haas School of Business. He is an economist working at the intersection of public finance, real estate, and urban economics. His current research focuses on the consequences of housing taxation and regulation, and on the role of landlords for geographic mobility and access to housing.

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Avi Feller

Avi Feller

Associate Professor, Public Policy and Statistics

Avi Feller is an assistant professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy, where he works at the intersection of public policy, data science, and statistics. His methodological research centers on learning more from social policy evaluations, especially randomized experiments. His applied research focuses on working with governments on using data to design, implement, and evaluate policies.

Benjamin Schoefer

Benjamin Schoefer

Associate Professor, Economics

Benjamin Schoefer is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research covers macroeconomics and labor economics. In much of his work, he uses microeconomic data and quasi-experimental variation generated by economic policies to study macroeconomic theories of wage determination and employment adjustment. He holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees from Harvard University. He also directs the Berkeley Macro Labor Center.

Ben Handel

Ben Handel

Associate Professor, Economics

Ben Handel is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He is a 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Economics and participated in the 2010 Review of Economics Studies European Tour. His research focuses on the microeconomics of consumer choice and market structure in the health care sector, with an emphasis on health insurance markets. His most recent research has emphasized the important role that consumer choice frictions, such as inertia and limited information, can have when assessing the welfare outcomes of different regulatory policies in health insurance markets. In addition, his work studies incentive design and adoption of information technology by medical providers. Dr. Handel has partnered with a range of large firms and policy organizations in the health care sector to study questions in these areas. He completed his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 2010, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2011. He received an A.B. in economics from Princeton University in 2004.

Cailin Slattery

Cailin Slattery

Associate Professor, Business & Public Policy

Cailin Slattery is an assistant professor of economics in the BPP group at Haas. She is an economist working at the intersection of public finance, industrial organization, and political economy. Her research centers on the relationship between local governments and firms; in the realms of economic development policy, regulation-setting, and procurement. 

Carolyn Stein

Carolyn Stein

Assistant Professor, Economic Analysis & Policy

Carolyn Stein is an Assistant Professor at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics. She received her PhD from MIT in 2021. Her research focuses on the economics of science and innovation, studying how incentives shape the production of new knowledge. 

Cecile Gaubert

Cecile Gaubert

Associate Professor, Economics

Cecile Gaubert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests include spatial distribution of economic activity, firms and cities, and firms and trade.

Christopher Walters

Christopher Walters

Associate Professor, 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.

Claire Montialoux

Claire Montialoux

Assistant Professor, 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.

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Conrad Miller

Conrad Miller

Associate Professor, Economic Analysis & Policy, 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.

Danny Yagan

Danny Yagan

Associate Professor, Economics

Danny Yagan is an Associate Professor in the department of Economics and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He joined the department after earning a BA summa cum laude and a PhD in economics from Harvard University and after completing a post-doc at UC Berkeley.

David Card

David Card

Class of 1950 Professor Emeritus of Economics; Professor of the Graduate School; Nobel Laureate 2021

David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include immigration, wages, education, and health insurance. He co-authored the 1995 book Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, and co-edited The Handbook of Labor Economics (1999), Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms (2004); and Small Differences that Matter: Labor Markets and Income Maintenance in Canada and the United States (1992).

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David Harding

David Harding

Professor, Sociology

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.

Edward Miguel

Edward Miguel

Distinguished Professor of Economics; Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics; Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)

Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). Miguel's main research focus is African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; and interactions between health, education, environment, and productivity for the poor.

Miguel is a recipient of the 2012 U.C. Berkeley campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award, the Best Graduate Adviser Award in the Berkeley Economics Department. He has written two books, Africa's Turn? (MIT Press 2009), and, with Ray Fisman, Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations (Princeton University Press 2008). Miguel's other writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Forbes, and the New York Times.

Emmanuel Saez

Emmanuel Saez

Chancellor's Professorship of Tax Policy and Public Finance

Emmanuel Saez is the Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his PhD in Economics from MIT in 1999. He was Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University from 1999 to 2002, before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2002. He is currently editor of the Journal of Public Economics and co-director of the Public Policy Program at CEPR. He was awarded the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association in 2009. His main areas of research are centered around taxation, redistribution, and inequality, both from a theoretical and empirical perspective.

Enrico Moretti

Enrico Moretti

Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics; Professor, Haas School of Business

Enrico Moretti is the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives and is a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London) and the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn).

Professor Moretti’s research covers the fields of labor economics, urban economics and regional economics. His book, “The New Geography of Jobs” was awarded the William Bowen Prize by Princeton University for the most important contribution toward understanding public policy and the labor market.