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., 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., 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
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
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., 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., 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.
Ph.D., Economics
Emily Martell is a second year economics PhD student with interests at the intersection of macroeconomics and environmental/energy economics. Previously, she worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and obtained her bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary.
Ph.D., Economics
Felipe is a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics Department at UC Berkeley, with research interests in public and labor economics. Prior to beginning his Ph.D., Felipe worked as an economist for the Brazilian federal government, concentrating on tax policies.
Ph.D., Economics
Gwyneth Miner is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at UC Berkeley, with research interests in labor, development, and spatial economics. Her current research examines how removing barriers to internal migration can decrease place-based inequality.
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
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
Javier is a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, whose research falls at the intersection of Public, Labor and Development Economics. He studies tax evasion in settings where employer-employee collusion is required and what are the limitations to it. Javier also studies disparities in property taxation in Brazil as well as startup responses to property taxes.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Kendra is a PhD student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests focus on the intersection of environmental economics and political economy. Kendra is particularly interested in understanding how political institutions affect the advancement of environmental policy.
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., Agricultural and Resource Economics
Max Snyder is a PhD student at UC Berkeley ARE interested in energy and environmental economics, climate adaptation, and inequality. His research explores how public policy can reduce climate risk and promote a clean energy transition.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Sheah is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department at UC Berkeley. Her primary interests are in political economy and development, with a focus on how institutions shape the long-run outcomes of vulnerable populations.
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., Agricultural and Resource Economics
Suvy Qin is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Her main research interests are at the intersection of environmental, urban economics, and public finance. Previously, Suvy worked as a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and received a B.A. in Economics from Brown University in 2019.
