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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Wilbur Townsend

Dept of Economics

labor economics, government policy

Benjamin Schoefer

Benjamin Schoefer

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, labor economics, corporate finance

Dept of Economics

inequality, place based policies, firm wage setting policies, employment discrimination, econometrics, discrimination

Haas School of Business

labor markets, human resources, data analysis and statistical methods

Na’ama Shenhav

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, economic policy, education

Haas School of Business

labor economics, worker-firm matching, discrimination

Jesse Rothstein

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor economics, inequality, education policy, unemployment, tax policy, local public finance, teacher quality, segregation, economics of education, labor market, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, partnership research, higher education

Dept of Economics

minimum wage, living wages, labor market segmentation, low wage labor markets

Supreet Kaur in office with textile in background

Dept of Economics

development economics, behavioral economics, labor economics

Dept of Economics

labor economics, urban economics

Reed Walker with arms crossed and natural background setting

Reed Walker

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

environmental economics, public economics, labor economics

Christopher Walters

Christopher Walters

Dept of Economics

labor economics, applied econometrics, economics of education

David Chan

Haas School of Business

health economics, labor economics, Organizational Economics

Alain de Janvry

Alain De Janvry

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, labor management and policy

Jeffrey Perloff

Jeffrey M. Perloff

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, labor, industrial organization, antitrust, econometrics, agricultural economics, trade, marketing

Laura Weiwu

Haas School of Business

urban economics, labor economics, economic history, inequality

Sydnee Caldwell

Sydnee Caldwell

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

personnel economics, labor economics, gender wage gap, applied microeconomics

Goldman School of Public Policy

crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, criminal justice policy

Haas School of Business

economic development, labor and organizational economics, health economics, wage determination, corporate social responsibility

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

poverty, inequality, economic policy, Social Safety Net, labor economics, public economics, Food Insecurity, COVID-19

Jeremy Magruder

Jeremy Magruder

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

development economics, agriculture in developing countries, labor markets, social networks in developing countries

Anastassia Fedyk

Anastassia Fedyk

Haas School of Business

finance, behavioral economics, labor and finance, role of information technology in financial markets

George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy

Katherine Newman

Dept of Sociology

Goldman School of Public Policy

low wage labor markets, social mobility, inequality