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., 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., 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
Eric Koepcke is an Economics PhD candidate at UC Berkeley and a Graduate Research Fellow at the National Science Foundation. His research focuses on understanding self-control and savings issues, using insights gained to develop tools and promote policies that strengthen Americans' financial health. Eric holds a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and previously worked at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Ph.D., Economics
Hadar Avivi is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at UC Berkeley. Her main research interests are in labor economics and applied econometrics. Specifically, she is working on questions related to gender discrimination, and the effect of childhood location on long-run outcomes.
Project Title: Location Choice and Heterogenous Location Effects
Ph.D., Economics
Haegele is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on inequality in modern labor markets. For her dissertation, she has collected a novel dataset of personnel records from a large multinational company to study gender diversity. By combining insights from labor economics with data science tools, she aims to identify policies that can alleviate bottlenecks in women’s career trajectories.
Ph.D., Public Policy
Jessica is a PhD candidate in Public Policy. Her research focuses on leveraging insights from behavioral science and using experimental methods to improve social programs and policies.
Ph.D., Economics
Joan Martinez is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are at the intersection of labor, education, and applied econometrics. Her project work studies how teachers' gender bias affects adulthood outcomes, such as college attendance, career choices, employment, and wages. She uses panel information from Peruvian students in the Public School system nationwide, university enrollment information, and matched employer-employee records.
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Ph.D., Economics
Holmes is a PhD candidate in economics at UC Berkeley. His research interests lie in examining the causes and consequences of high premiums for health insurance in the United States, and how the cost of employer-sponsored health insurance affects hiring practices.
Ph.D., Economics
Nick Flamang is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He works on topics at the intersection of labor, macro, and behavioral economics, with a particular interest in questions of household finance like the ways households smooth out shocks to their income and wealth. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he worked as a pre-doctoral fellow for the Opportunity Insights Lab at Stanford University, and he holds an M.Sc. from Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.
Ph.D., Economics
Rousille is a PhD candidate in Economics at Berkeley. She is interested in labor market inequality and capital taxation. Her most recent project uses data from more than 100,000 candidates and 40,000 jobs on an online recruitment platform to explore the role of the gender ask gap - the fact that women with similar backgrounds and experience as men have lower salary expectations - in companies' hiring and wage setting decisions.
Ph.D., Economics
Kennedy is a PhD student in Economics at UC Berkeley, a Graduate Research Fellow at the National Science Foundation, and a Research Fellow with the California Policy Lab. He received his BA from Stanford University, and has worked at the Federal Reserve Board and Treasury Department in Washington, DC and at Columbia University in New York City. His research interests focus on the intersection of labor economics, public finance, and economic geography.
Ph.D., Economics
Rocha is a PhD student in the Economics department. Prior to coming to Berkeley, he obtained his master degree at PUC-Rio and a bachelor's degree from University of São Paulo. His research lies at the intersection of labor and development economics, in particular how firms shape labor markets in developing countries.
Ph.D., Economics
Sreeraahul Kancherla is a Ph.D. candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Economics and a Graduate Research Fellow at the National Science Foundation, with broad interests in public and labor economics. In his research, he explores various ways that the US tax and transfer system impacts labor markets.
Ph.D., Economics
Hinrichsen is a UC Berkeley PhD candidate interested in labor, education and health topics. She is currently working on the evaluation of an admission reform to universities and a major reform in terms of access and quality of the health system in Chile.
Ph.D., Economics
Zachary Bleemer is a labor economist and PhD candidate in economics at UC Berkeley. His research examines the long-run labor market and economic mobility consequences of young Americans' educational decisions using 'big' administrative data and transparent quasi-experimental research designs. Zachary is also a Research Associate at UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education.
