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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
