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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics
Meredith Fowlie holds the Class of 1935 Endowed Chair in Energy and is an Associated Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a research associate at the Energy Institute at Haas and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her primary areas of interest include energy supply and demand, and the economic analysis of environmental policy outcomes.
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Michael Anderson is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include environmental economics, health economics, and applied econometrics, especially relating to questions of causal inference.
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.
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.
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.
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
Becky Staiger is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health. She is a health policy researcher whose work combines approaches from health economics and health services research to explore the behaviors of marginalized patient populations and the providers that treat them. In much of her research, she uses large Medicaid administrative claims databases to better understand how the relationships between patients and their providers affect Medicaid enrollees’ healthcare utilization, as well as how broader policy and clinical environments affect patient access to care. She also explores the impact of external influences (such as peers, policies, and practice environment) on provider behavior and provider participation in Medicaid.
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.
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.
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.
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).
