Cameron Ricciardi and Kaan Cankat are both PHD students in the section.
Jessica Min is a PhD student in the Section.
Abstract:
Point-in-time" counts of those experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the United States are at their highest levels in over a decade. In response, some cities have undertaken “encampment closures” in which individuals…
Co-sponsored by Data Driven Social Science Initiative and the Industrial Relations Section
Co-sponsored by Data Driven Social Science Initiative and the Industrial Relations Section
Incumbent political leaders want to persuade voters of their skill, but are constrained by legislatures. Skilled leaders may be better at pushing more ambitious partisan reform, but such bills may still fail in a divided legislature. I study a model where the partisanship of a policy agenda generates different signals of ability. I show…
Christian Dustmann is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL). Professor Dustmann is a leading labor economist who has worked on topics such as migration, the economics of education, the economics of crime, social networks, technology, income mobility, wage dynamics, and inequality.
Professor Zimmerman studies labor economics and public finance, with a focus on the economics of education. His research examines the social, economic, and policy determinants of educational attainment and the returns to education, with an eye towards understanding how education systems contribute to upward mobility, income inequality, and…
Brandon Enriquez is a PhD student in Department of Economics at MIT. He graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2017 with a BA in mathematics and economics. His main research interests are in labor economics; he has ongoing research projects on racial inequality and on social insurance for low-wage workers.
Winnie van Dijk is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Yale. Her research seeks to inform the design and evaluation of economic policies aimed at improving the lives of low-income households. Her fields of study are labor, public, and urban economics.
Emi Nakamura is an empirical macroeconomist who has greatly increased our understanding of price-setting by firms and the effects of monetary and fiscal policies. Nakamura is best known for her use of microeconomic data on individual product prices to draw conclusions about the empirical validity of models of price-setting used in the…
