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 will join Berkeley’s Economics Department as an Assistant Professor in 2023, after spending the 2022-2023 academic year as a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Stone Center. Mathilde works on 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 George Pardee Jr. Professor of International Sustainable Development and Associate Dean in the Division of Social Sciences at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics, and applied econometrics.

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.

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.

Reed Walker

Reed Walker

Associate 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.

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.

Supreet Kaur

Supreet Kaur

Associate Professor, Economics

Supreet Kaur is Assistant 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