Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Associate Professor, Economic Analysis & Policy; Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance, Haas School of Business

Ricardo Perez-Truglia is an Associate Professor at the Haas School of Business. His research lies at the intersection of behavioral economics, political economy and public economics. Perez-Truglia intends his research to inform firms and policy makers in the developed and developing world, leading to practical applications. One of his main research interests is how social image and social comparisons shape economic behavior. Perez-Truglia studies social incentives in contexts such as tax compliance, political participation and happiness.

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).

Supreet Kaur

Supreet Kaur

Associate Professor, Economics

Supreet Kaur is Associate Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Kaur's research is in development economics and behavioral economics, with a focus on labor markets.

Sydnee Caldwell

Sydnee Caldwell

Assistant Professor, Economic Analysis and Policy, Department of Economics and Haas School of Business

Sydnee Caldwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the Haas School of Business. Her research focuses on topics in labor and personnel economics.

William Dow

William Dow

Professor, Health Policy and Management; Department of Demography

William H. Dow is a health economics professor with appointments in the School of Public Health’s Division of Health Policy and Management and in the Department of Demography. His research analyzes economic aspects of health behaviors as well as health and demographic outcomes. Dow directs UC Berkeley’s NIA-funded Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging, and is founding Associate Director of the NICHD-funded Berkeley Population Center. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has previously served as Interim Dean of the School of Public Health, and as Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. Honors include the Kenneth J. Arrow Award given by the International Health Economics Association

Ziad Obermeyer

Ziad Obermeyer

Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management

Ziad Obermeyer is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Obermayer is a physician and researcher who works at the intersection of machine learning and health. His research seeks to understand and improve decision making in public policy and clinical medicine, and drive innovations in health research. His work has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The BMJ, and Health Affairs. He is the recipient of an Early Independence Award from the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.