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
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., 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
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
Emily is an Economics Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley, with research interests in macroeconomics, public finance, labor economics, and economic history. Eisner's research project evaluates the impact of large one-time payments from a lawsuit on discriminatory lending practices on individual economic outcomes and political economy outcomes.
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
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
Harrison Wheeler is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he and his research partner Patrick Kennedy are studying the impacts of "Opportunity Zones" created through the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In particular, they are looking into how the targeted tax incentives created through this program have affected local investment, employment, housing prices, and demographics in areas designated as underserved.
Ph.D., Economics
Manelici is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, she and her research partner Jose Vasquez are studying the effects of incentive policies designed to attract large multi-national corporations. In their current project, Isabela and Jose are looking into how these kinds of incentives are affecting firm productivity, employment rates, and economic activity in Costa Rica.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Jesse Buchsbaum is a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He studies energy and environmental economics, with a focus on energy bill affordability, consumer decision-making, energy poverty, and equity.
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Jesse Strecker completed his MPP at the Goldman School for Public Policy, and is currently a PhD student at the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) where he studies the political economy of sustainability transitions with a focus on the role of unions and social movements in the politics of climate change, energy, and decarbonization. He has worked in climate and labor advocacy for nearly fifteen years, serving as the Executive Director of Rhode Island Jobs with Justice, a Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator Ed Markey, and a Senior Fellow at Data For Progress. Jesse is the great-grandson of coal miners and a proud, resilient river rat, having grown up by the Russian River in Sonoma County, near the site of some of the most destructive wildfires in California's history.
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
Nick is a PhD student in the Economics department at UC Berkeley. His current research focuses on the impact of local labor demand shocks (i.e. large job losses) on the outcomes of children growing up in affected regions, and what kind of policy response achieves desired outcomes.
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.
