Ph.D., Economics
Joaquin is a PhD candidate in the Economics department at UC Berkeley. His fields of interest are Labor and Public Economics. His current research agenda focuses on the evaluation of public policy with a special interest in its impact on education outcomes. Before coming to UC Berkeley, he studied at PUC in Chile.
Ph.D., Sociology
LaBriola is a PhD candidate in Sociology. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he is studying the effects of land use regulations on housing supply throughout California and around the country.
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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
Vasquez is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he and his research partner Isabela Manelici 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
Kaleb is a PhD student in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department, a Filipino American, and a first generation college student. His research explores how firm and consumer behavior is adapting to climate change.
Ph.D., Public Policy
Danesh is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he is studying the effects of federal policies targeted at "Medically Underserved Areas." In particular, he will be examining how incentives to attract doctors and changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates have affected the supply of physicians in these areas, spending on healthcare, and the health outcomes of individuals living in these areas.
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., 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
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., Agricultural & Resource Economics
Paula Meloni is a PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are in industrial organization, environment and urban economics. Before starting at Berkeley, Paula worked at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT and the World Bank.
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.
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., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Ruth Kravis received her B.S degree in Systems Engineering from the Australian National University in 2021. She commenced her PhD in EECS at UC Berkeley in 2022. Ruth is interested in how the integration of renewable resources affects everything from grid stability to market operations and long-planning.
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Ph.D., Economics
Zarate is a PhD student in Economics. With support from the Opportunity Lab and the Smith Richardson Foundation, he is studying the relationship between public transit investments, commuting times, and labor power in Mexico City.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Sayantan (Sunny) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, with research interests that lie at the intersection of development, environmental and agricultural economics. Previously, Sunny worked as a Research Associate in India for Evidence for Policy Design at Harvard Kennedy School and received his B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from the College of Wooster.
Ph.D., Agriculture and Resource Economics
Shuo Yu is a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics. Her research focuses on agricultural policy and environmental economics, employing innovative econometric analysis and satellite-derived data.
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.
