Patrick Kline is a Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley and a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  His research focuses on the determinants of wage inequality and the effectiveness of public policies designed to combat inequality.  Dr. Kline is a fellow of the Econometric Society and serves as foreign editor of the Review of Economic Studies and an associate editor at Econometrica and at the American Economic Journal: Applied. [Read More]

David Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley he taught at University of Chicago in 1982-83 and Princeton University from 1983 to 1996. He has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Harvard University, UCLA, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. From 2012 to 2017 he was Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[Read More]

Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 2000. He earned his B.S. degrees in both Economics and Mathematics from MIT, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. [Read More]

Emmanuel Saez is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on tax policy and inequality both from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Jointly with Thomas Piketty, he has constructed long-run historical series of income inequality in the United States that have been widely discussed in the public debate. [Read More]

Enrico Moretti is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley where he holds the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Career Development Chair in Labor Economics. He is the Director of the Urbanization Program at the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics) and Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. [Read More]

Frederico Finan joined the department in 2009 as an assistant professor. He received his PhD in Agriculture and Resource Economics from UC-Berkeley in 2006. Prior to joining the department, Professor Finan was an assistant professor of economics at UCLA. [Read More]

Jesse Rothstein is a public and labor economist. His research focuses on education and tax policy, and particularly on the way that public institutions ameliorate or reinforce the effects of children’s families on their academic and economic outcomes. Much of his research examines racial gaps in educational progress. [Read More]

Michael Reich is Professor of the Graduate School and Co-Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California at Berkeley. His research publications cover numerous areas of labor economics and political economy, including the economics of racial inequality, the analysis of labor market segmentation, historical stages in U.S. labor markets and social structures of accumulation, high performance workplaces, union-management cooperation and Japanese labor-management systems. His recent research focuses on minimum wages and pay in the gig economy. [Read More]

Stefano DellaVigna (2002 Ph.D., Harvard) is the Daniel Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in Behavioral Economics, including work on behavioral labor economics, for example on job search and on effort at the workplace. He has been an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2008-10), a Distinguished Teaching Award winner (2008), and a co-editor of the American Economic Review (2017 to the present).

Christopher Walters joined the Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor in 2013 after completing a PhD in economics at MIT. Walters is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Faculty Affiliate at the MIT School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII) and an affiliate of J-PAL North America. His research focuses on the topics in labor economics and the economics of education, including early childhood programs, school effectiveness, and labor market discrimination.

Hilary Hoynes is a Professor of Public Policy and Economics and holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities. She is the co-editor of the leading journal in economics, American Economic Review. Hoynes received her undergraduate degree from Colby College and her PhD from Stanford University. [Read More]

Conrad Miller joined the economics department as an assistant professor after receiving his PhD in economics from MIT in 2014. In 2009, he graduated with a BA in Economics and a BA in Math from Stanford. [Read More]

Supreet Kaur is a development economist, with overlap in work with behavioral and labor economics. The first strand of her research focuses on the functioning of labor markets in poor countries. [Read More]

Sydnee Caldwell is a labor and personnel economist. Professor Caldwell received her PhD from MIT in 2019 and her BA from UC Berkeley in 2012.