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. 

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Rucker C. Johnson

Rucker C. Johnson

Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy

Rucker C. Johnson is the Chancellor's Professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy and a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. As a labor and health economist, his work considers the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances. He has focused on such topics as the long-run impacts of school quality on educational attainment and socioeconomic success, including the effects of desegregation, school finance reform, and Head Start. He has investigated the determinants of intergenerational mobility; the societal consequences of incarceration; effects of maternal employment patterns on child well-being; and the socioeconomic determinants of health disparities over the life course, including the roles of childhood neighborhood conditions and residential segregation.

Steven Raphael

Steven Raphael

Professor, James T. Marver Chair, Goldman School of Public Policy

Steven Raphael is a Professor and James T. Marver Chair of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His research focuses on the economics of low-wage labor markets, housing, and the economics of crime and corrections. His most recent research focuses on the social consequences of the large increases in U.S. incarceration rates. Raphael also works on immigration policy, research questions pertaining to various aspects of racial inequality, the economics of labor unions, social insurance policies, homelessness, and low-income housing. Raphael is the author (with Michael Stoll) of Why Are so Many Americans in Prison? (published by the Russell Sage Foundation Press) and The New Scarlet Letter? Negotiating the U.S. Labor Market with a Criminal Record (published by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research).