Elif Taşar
Ph.D., Agricultural & Resource Economics
Elif Taşar is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are in labor, urban, and public economics.
Emily Martell
Emily Martell
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.
Emily Eisner
Emily Eisner
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.
Eric Koepcke
Eric Koepcke
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.
Eva Lyubich
Eva Lyubich
Ph.D., Economics
Lyubich is a PhD student in the Economics Department and a Graduate Student Researcher at the Energy Institute at Haas. Her research examines the relationship between inequality, local public goods, and greenhouse gas emissions.
Felipe Lobel
Felipe Lobel
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.
Germán Reyes
Germán Reyes
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.
Gwyneth Miner
Gwyneth Miner
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.
Hadar Avivi
Hadar Avivi
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
Harrison Wheeler
Harrison Wheeler
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.
Hikari Murayama
Hikari Murayama
Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group
Hikari Murayama is a PhD Candidate in the Energy and Resources Group. Her research combines remote sensing and machine learning to understand the carbon budget. This work spans the past and present: she is quantifying land cover changes in Africa using historical aerial photos and using modern-day satellites to study emissions from power plants.
Ingrid Haegele
Ingrid Haegele
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.
Isabel Hincapie
Isabel Hincapie
Ph.D., Economics
Isabel is a PhD Candidate in the Economics department interested in spatial and development economics. Many of Isabel’s projects also intersect with gender economics, aiming to provide evidence-based solutions to incorporate women in the labor markets of rapidly growing cities.
Isabela Manelici
Isabela Manelici
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.
Ini Umosen
Ini Umosen
Ph.D., Economics
Ini Umosen is a PhD Candidate in the Economics department at UC Berkeley with research interests in the economics of education and place-based policies. She has previously been a research affiliate at the RAND Corporation, the California Policy Lab, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She received undergraduate degrees in economics and statistics from Case Western Reserve University.
Javier Feinmann
Javier Feinmann
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.
Jesse Buchsbaum
Jesse Buchsbaum
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.
Jesse Strecker
Jesse Strecker
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.
Jessica Lasky-Fink
Jessica Lasky-Fink
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.
Joan Martinez
Joan Martinez
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.