Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Eocnomics
Aaron grew up in Oregon, where he also received his undergraduate degree in physics and masters degree in Applied Economics. His research focuses on using ancillary datasets to estimate uncertainty and incorporating that information into economic analyses of pollution regulation. In his spare time, Aaron likes to hike, play board games, and work on home improvement projects.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Abdou is a 3rd year PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. He is interested in development economics with a focus on agriculture and energy in Sub-Saharan Africa. He completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University with a major in Economics and a minor in Mathematics. He is a native of Senegal.
Ph.D., Economics
Alice is a PhD student in the Economics department at UC Berkeley. Her research interests lie at the intersection of environment and economic geography. She is particularly interested in using spatial equilibrium models to understand changes in land use. Before starting at Berkeley, Alice worked as a research assistant at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago.
Ph.D., Economics
Cerrato is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics. He is interested in economic geography, macroeconomics and labor economics. Prior to coming to UC Berkeley, he studied at Bocconi University and the London School of Economics and worked as a Research Assistant at Chicago Booth.
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Ari Ball-Burack is a PhD student in the Energy and Resources Group, advised by Dr. Dan Kammen. His research focuses on decarbonization policy; specifically, he is interested in incorporating key complexities such as technological innovation, human behavior, and political economy into data-driven policy decision support tools. His current projects investigate the employment and macroeconomic impacts of the green energy transition, decarbonization policy interactions at the national and global levels, distributional equity in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, and representations of consumer adoption in multi-sector energy system models.
Ph.D., Economics
Guarin is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UC Berkeley. He has a B.A. in Economics and a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Universidad EAFIT in Colombia. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked for four years at the Applied Microeconomics Research Department of the Central Bank of Colombia. His fields of interest are Public Economics, Labor Economics and Development Economics. His current research agenda focuses on the evaluation of a place-based policy that randomly assigns physicians to medically underserved communities throughout Colombia.
Ph.D., Economics
Benjamin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics Department whose research focuses on labor economics, the economics of the criminal legal system, and econometrics. He graduated with an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College in 2014 and worked for two years as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Lab for Economic Applications and Policy at Harvard University before graduate school.
Ph.D., Economics
Caleb Wroblewski is a PhD student in Economics at U.C. Berkeley. His research interests are in macroeconomics, public finance, and labor markets. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago.
Ph.D., Economics
Charoo is an Economics PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. She is interested in segregation and inequality and, in particular, the historical institutions that shaped them. Her current research focuses on how US Interstate highways affected racial segregation. Charoo received her Bachelor's from LSE and, prior to joining Berkeley, worked as a research assistant at their Centre for Economic Performance.
Ph.D., Haas School of Business
Chiara is a Ph.D. student at the Haas School of Business. She works on topics at the intersection of labor economics, industrial organization, and spatial economics. Her current research employs quantitative models to assess the impact of government policies on labor markets. Chiara holds both a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Economics from Bocconi University.
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Cristina is a PhD student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, studying urban energy transitions, electrification policies, and technology uptake in the backdrop of an increasingly disrupted grid. She is a Fulbright scholar and a Research Affiliate in the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she works on modeling hybrid energy plants and battery degradation. She holds a Dual Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering in Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain) and École Centrale Paris (France).
Ph.D., Economics
Damián Vergara holds a BA and MA in Economics from the Universidad de Chile and is currently a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in economics at UC Berkeley. His main research interests are public and labor economics, in particular, topics related to inequality, taxation, labor market institutions, and discrimination.
Ph.D., Public Policy
Unrath is a PhD Candidate at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Research Fellow at the California Policy Lab. His current research focuses on take-up of income support programs.
Ph.D., Economics
Johnston is a PhD candidate in Economics. She is broadly interested in labor and education policy and, with the support of the Labor Science Initiative, she is studying teacher shortages, measured by the vacancy rates, and how shortages vary geographically and by subject.
Ph.D., School of Information
Chi is a PhD candidate at the School of Information. His research focuses on understanding how new sources of data and machine learning methods can be used to better understand physical and social mobility of marginalized populations. Much of his research to date has involved mining geospatial “big data” to better understand the interaction between individual activities and the larger geographical context.
Ph.D., Economics
Daniela is a Ph.D. student in Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are broad and include a variety of topics related to applied microeconomics. She’s passionate about food economics and how private and non-private-led initiatives can address certain food waste inefficiencies.
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Bruns-Smith is a PhD student in Computer Science. He is interested in applying methods from optimization, statistics, and control to problems in causal inference, labor, and social policy, with the hope that recent developments in computer science can help break new ground in inequality research.
Ph.D., Economics
Elaine Shen is a PhD student in the Economics department at UC Berkeley. Her research interests lie at the intersection of behavioral, labor, and public economics. Before coming to Berkeley, Elaine worked as a fixed income investment strategist at BlackRock.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Elena is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department. Her research focuses on the intersection between climate change and development. She is particularly interested in climate change adaptation and mitigation as it relates to natural disasters, extreme weather events, and temperature changes.
Ph.D., Economics
Elena is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Economics with a focus on macroeconomics and economic history. Her research interests can be broadly divided into three categories: understanding the macroeconomic consequences of changing U.S. demographics, exploring the role of monetary policy pass-through in shaping female and minoritized community outcomes in the United States, and investigating the effects of lifetime experiences of climate disasters on home ownership and wealth accumulation.
