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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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.

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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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.

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).

Gabriel Zucman

Gabriel Zucman

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Gabriel Zucman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the Goldman School of Public Policy. He earned a Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics in 2013. His research focuses on the accumulation and distribution of global wealth, from a public finance, international macro, and historical perspective. He has published on the dynamic of wealth held in offshore tax havens, on long-run patterns in capital accumulation, and on the trends in wealth inequality in the United States. His book, “the Hidden Wealth of Nations” (2015) published at the University of Chicago Press assesses the costs of Tax Havens to foreign nations, and provides an Action Plan to effectively fight offshore tax avoidance and evasion.

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 an Associate 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.