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 and 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 Professor 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.

Frederico Finan

Frederico Finan

George Break and Helen Schnacke Break Distinguished Professor of Economics; Professor of Business Administration

Frederico Finan is a Professor of Economics and Business Administration. He is also an affiliate of Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development(BREAD), and a research fellow at IZA and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Guo Xu

Guo Xu

Associate Professor, Business & Public Policy

Guo Xu is Associate Professor at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, a Research Associate at the NBER and Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). He also serves as Co-Editor at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization and as Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy and Econometrica. He received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2017. His work is at the intersection between political economy, economic history, and organizational economics. 

Jesse Rothstein

Jesse Rothstein

Carmel P. Friesen Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics

Jesse Rothstein is a Professor of Public Policy and Economics and Director of the California Policy Lab. He joined the Berkeley faculty in 2009, and spent the 2009-10 academic year in public service, first as Senior Economist at the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers and then as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. Earlier, he was assistant professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University. His research focuses on education policy and the labor market, and particularly on the way that educational and other institutions promote or hinder opportunity for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Jonathan Kolstad

Jonathan Kolstad

Professor, Henry J. Kaiser Chair, Economic Analysis & Policy

Jonathan Kolstad is a Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an economist whose research interests lie at the intersection of health economics, industrial organization and public economics. His work has studied, amongst other things, the impact of quality information on demand as well as intrinsic surgeon incentives, the impact of the Massachusetts health insurance expansion on a variety of outcomes and consumer decision making in insurance markets. Kolstad was awarded the Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper in health economics in 2014. Professor Kolstad is also a co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at Picwell.

Joseph Shapiro

Joseph Shapiro

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics

Joseph S. Shapiro is Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in Agricultural & Resource Economics and the Department of Economics. He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Political Economy, Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Associate at the Energy Institute at Haas. He studies climate change, air pollution, clean energy, renewable and exhaustible natural resources, and especially water pollution, and his work has links to the economics of international trade, public finance, and health.

Joshua Blumenstock

Joshua Blumenstock

Chancellor’s Associate Professor, UC Berkeley School of Information, Goldman School of Public Policy

Joshua Blumenstock is an Associate Professor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information, the Director of the Data-Intensive Development Lab, and the Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA). His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and development economics, and focuses on using novel data and methods to better understand the causes and consequences of global poverty.

Lucas Davis

Lucas Davis

Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor, Haas School of Business; Chair, Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group

Lucas Davis is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. At Berkeley since 2009, Davis is an energy and environmental economist, with recent work on the U.S. clean energy tax credits, electric vehicle adoption, and the energy and environmental impacts of air conditioning. His 30+ peer-reviewed publications appear in top academic journals including the Journal of Political Economy and American Economic Review, and his research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, and Washington Post. 

Mathilde Muñoz

Mathilde Muñoz

Assistant Professor, Economics

Mathilde Muñoz is an Assistant Professor in the department of Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research explores topics in public economics and international trade, with a focus on the distributional effects of globalization and international tax competition in Europe.

Maximillian Auffhammer

Maximillian Auffhammer

Avice M. Saint Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics & Political Economy

Maximilian Auffhammer is the Avice M. Saint Professor at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics, and applied econometrics.

Meredith Fowlie

Meredith Fowlie

Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics

Meredith Fowlie is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. She holds the Class of 1935 Endowed Chair in Energy at UC Berkeley. She is a faculty director at the Energy Institute at Haas and a co-director of the Environment and Energy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson

Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

Michael Anderson is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include environmental economics, health economics, and applied econometrics, especially relating to questions of causal inference.

Michael Reich

Michael Reich

Professor, Economics

Michael Reich is Professor of Economics and Co-Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) of the University of California Berkeley, where he also served as director from 2004 to 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. Reich’s research areas include labor economics, political economy, living wages, and minimum wages.

Na'ama Shenhav

Na'ama Shenhav

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

Na’ama Shenhav is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy. She is an economist who studies labor market inequality, barriers to economic mobility, and policy solutions. Her current research focuses on quantifying the multigenerational benefits of education and the social costs of women’s work interruptions.

Nano Barahona

Nano Barahona

Assistant Professor, 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.

Patrick Kline

Patrick Kline

Professor, Economics

Patrick Kline is a Professor of Economics. He is the 2007 winner of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research dissertation prize and was chosen as a participant in the 2007 Review of Economic Studies European Tour and the 2008 Frontiers of Econometrics conference in Japan.

Rebecca Staiger

Rebecca Staiger

Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

Becky Staiger is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health. She is a health policy researcher whose work combines approaches from health economics and health services research to explore the behaviors of marginalized patient populations and the providers that treat them. In much of her research, she uses large Medicaid administrative claims databases to better understand how the relationships between patients and their providers affect Medicaid enrollees’ healthcare utilization, as well as how broader policy and clinical environments affect patient access to care. She also explores the impact of external influences (such as peers, policies, and practice environment) on provider behavior and provider participation in Medicaid.

Reed Walker

Reed Walker

Professor, Economics; Transamerica Chair in Business Strategy, Haas School of Business

Reed Walker is the Transamerica Associate Professor of Business Strategy and an Associate Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. His research explores the social costs of environmental externalities such as air pollution and how regulations to limit these externalities contribute to gains and/or losses to the economy. He is a research associate at the Energy Institute at Haas, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at IZA. He was a recipient of the 2017 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and the 2015 IZA Young Labor Economist Award. He received his PhD in economics from Columbia University in 2012 and was a postdoctoral researcher in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Scholars in Health Policy program from 2012-2014.