Research Expertise and Interest

labor economics, applied econometrics, economics of education

Research Description

Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on topics in labor economics, the economics of education, and applied econometrics, including work on school choice, early childhood programs, methods for evaluating school quality, experimental measurement of labor market discrimination, program evaluation, causal inference, and empirical Bayes methods. Dr. Walters is  a Research Associate in the NBER programs on education and labor studies, an IZA Research Fellow, an affiliate of JPAL-North America and MIT’s Blueprint Labs, and a co-editor at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.