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
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., Economics
Germán is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Cornell University. He works on topics in behavioral and labor economics. Before attending Cornell, Germán worked as a research analyst at the World Bank in Washington D.C. and as an analyst at the Ministry of Economics in Buenos Aires. He holds a B.A. and a M.A. in Economics from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
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
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.
Ph.D., Public Policy
Raheem Chaudhry is a PhD student at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His research considers the role of public policy in inhibiting or improving access to opportunity for low-income communities and communities of color. Previously, he was a Research Associate at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he studied the relationship between federal fiscal policy and trends in income and poverty.
