Our Experts

Catherine Albiston

Jackson H. Ralston Professor of Law, Professor of Sociology, & Faculty Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society

Law

Race & Ethnicity

Michael Anderson

Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Early Childhood Education • Health Care • Public Policy

Abhay Aneja

Professor

Law

Criminal Justice • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Sarah F. Anzia

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy & Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy, Political Science

Public Policy • Unions

Francisco Arzu

Co-Director, Green Economy Program

Labor Center

Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Unions

Maximilian Auffhammer

Avice M. Saint Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics, Political Economy

California State Policy • Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change

Lea J.E. Austin

Executive Director

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education • Race & Ethnicity

Andrew Baker

Assistant Professor

Law

Firms and Organizations

Sanchita Banerjee Saxena

Professional Faculty

Haas School of Business

Gender • Global Labor • Low-Wage Work • Poverty & Inequality • Unions • Workers’ Rights

Cristina Banks

Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces & Senior Lecturer

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations

Annette Bernhardt

Director, Technology and Work Program

Labor Center

Gig Economy • Global Labor • Immigration • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Minimum Wage & Living Wage • Poverty & Inequality • Work & Technology

Arabella Bloom

Associate Director of Technical Assistance

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education

Travis J. Bristol

Associate Professor

School of Education

Education • Gender • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Tolani Britton

Associate Professor

School of Education

Criminal Justice • Early Childhood Education • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Clair Brown

Professor Emerita of Economics & Coordinator of the Climate and Society Center

Climate and Society Center

California State Policy • Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Labor Markets • Public Policy • Work & Technology

Erika Brown

Researcher

California Policy Lab

Health Care • Methods • Social Safety Net

Max Buchholz

Assistant Professor

City & Regional Planning

California State Policy • Gender • Housing • Labor Markets • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Sydnee Caldwell

Assistant Professor

Economics, Haas School of Business

Gender • Gig Economy • Labor Markets

David Card

Class of 1950 Professor of Economics

Economics

Education • Labor Markets

Federico Castillo

CES/Lecturer

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Education • Immigration • Labor Markets • Work & Technology

Karen Chapple

Professor Emerita

City & Regional Planning

California State Policy • Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Housing • Labor Markets • Poverty & Inequality

Jennifer A. Chatman

Dean

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Gender

Abby Copeman Petig

Research Director

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education • Methods

Mathijs de Vaan

Associate Professor, Haas School of Business

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Gender • Health Care • Labor Markets • Poverty & Inequality

Miranda Dietz

Director, Health Care Program

Labor Center

Health Care

William H. Dow

Kaiser Permanente Endowed Chair in Health Policy Management

Public Health

Health Care • Social Safety Net

Pamela Egan

Director, Labor-Management Partnerships Program

Labor Center

Peter Evans

Professor Emeritus

Sociology

Global Labor

Avi Feller

Associate Professor

Goldman School of Public Policy, Statistics

Criminal Justice • Education

Anibel Ferus-Comelo

Director of Community-Engaged Academic Initiatives

Labor Center

Global Labor

Catherine Fisk

Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law & Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Work & the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology

Law

Gig Economy • Low-Wage Work • Minimum Wage & Living Wage • Poverty & Inequality • Unemployment • Unions • Workers’ Rights

Neil Fligstein

Class of 1939 Professor & Director of the Center for Culture, Organization, and Politics

Sociology

Firms and Organizations • Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change

Marion Fourcade

Professor of Sociology & Director of Social Science Matrix

Sociology

Education • Finance & Financial Reform • Work & Technology

Cybelle Fox

Professor

Sociology

Immigration • Public Policy • Race & Ethnicity • Social Safety Net

Paul J. Gertler

Li Ka Shing Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Faculty Director, Institute of Business and Social Impact, & UC Berkeley Scientific Director, Center for Evaluation and Global Impact, UC Berkeley

Haas School of Business

Early Childhood Education • Education • Firms and Organizations • Health Care • Housing • Labor Markets • Public Finance • Public Policy • Retirement Security

Jake Grumbach

Associate Professor

Goldman School of Public Policy

Public Policy • Race & Ethnicity

Jessie HF Hammerling

Co-Director, Green Economy Program

Labor Center

Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Low-Wage Work • Work & Technology

David Harding

Professor and Chair

Sociology

Criminal Justice • Education • Higher Education • Labor Markets • Poverty & Inequality

Heather A. Haveman

Professor

Sociology

Firms and Organizations • Gender • Labor Markets

Alexandra Hill

Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension

Economics

California State Policy • Immigration • Labor Markets • Work & Technology

Hidetaka Hirota

Associate Professor, Thomas Garden Barnes Chair in Canadian Studies Co-Director, Canadian Studies Program

History

Employment and Labor Law • Immigration • Poverty & Inequality • Public Policy • Race & Ethnicity

Seth M. Holmes

Chancellor's Professor in the Division of Society and Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Anthropology, Public Health

Global Labor • Health Care • Immigration • Low-Wage Work • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity • Workers’ Rights

Hilary Hoynes

Chancellor’s Professor of Economics and Public Policy

Economics, Goldman School of Public Policy

Poverty & Inequality • Public Finance • Public Policy • Social Safety Net • Tax Policy

Carly Hyland

Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension, Environmental Health Sciences

Public Health

California State Policy • Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Health Care • Immigration • Workers’ Rights

Supreet Kaur

Associate Professor

Economics

Labor Markets • Unemployment

Erin M. Kerrison

Assistant Professor

School of Social Welfare

Criminal Justice • Race & Ethnicity

Mishal Khan

Senior Researcher, Technology and Work Program

Labor Center

Global Labor • Work & Technology

Yoonjeon Kim

Lead Research Analyst

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education • Education • Immigration • Methods

Patrick Kline

Professor

Economics

Firms and Organizations • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Laura Kray

Professor, The Ned and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership, Chair, Management of Organizations Group, & Faculty Director, Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership

Haas School of Business

Education • Gender • Higher Education

Lisa Kresge

Senior Researcher, Technology and Work Program

Labor Center

Low-Wage Work • Unions • Work & Technology

Laura (Layla) Kwong

Assistant Professor

Public Health

Health Care

Johanna Lacoe

Research Director

California Policy Lab

Criminal Justice • Education • Housing • Methods • Public Policy

Danya Lagos

Assistant Professor

Sociology

Gender

Michel Laguerre

Professor, Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology

African American Studies & African Diaspora Studies

Global Labor • Work & Technology

Hyeonjeong Lee

Senior Research & Policy Associate

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education

Adam Leive

Assistant Professor

Goldman School of Public Policy

Health Care • Public Finance • Public Policy • Retirement Security • Social Safety Net

David I. Levine

Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Chair in Business Administration & Chair, Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Gender • Global Labor • Health Care • Work & Technology

Ethan A. Ligon

Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Poverty & Inequality

James R. Lincoln

Mitsubishi Chair in International Business and Finance Emeritus

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Work & Technology

Enrique Lopezlira

Director, Low-Wage Work Program

Labor Center

Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Poverty & Inequality

Laurel Lucia

Deputy Executive Director

Labor Center

Health Care • Immigration • Low-Wage Work • Unions

Jeremy R. Magruder

George W. and Elsie M. Robinson Professor of Food and Agricultural Resource Economics

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Global Labor • Minimum Wage & Living Wage

Aprajit Mahajan

Associate Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Firms and Organizations • Global Labor • Poverty & Inequality • Public Finance • Public Policy

Caitlin McLean

Director of Multi-State and International Programs

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education • Race & Ethnicity

Conrad Miller

Associate Professor

Haas School of Business

Criminal Justice • Firms and Organizations • Labor Markets • Race & Ethnicity

Elena Montoya

Associate Director, Research & Policy

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education

Enrico Moretti

Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics & Professor of Business Administration

Economics, Haas School of Business

Gig Economy • Global Labor • Housing • Labor Markets • Public Policy • Tax Policy

Brenda Muñoz

Executive Director

Labor Center

Unions

Wanzi Muruvi

Senior Research and Policy Associate

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education • Race & Ethnicity

Dara O’Rourke

Associate Professor

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Firms and Organizations • Global Labor • Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change

Eyitsyo Opabola

Assistant Professor

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Housing • Public Policy

Caitlin Patler

Associate Professor

Goldman School of Public Policy

Immigration • Poverty & Inequality • Public Policy

Jeffrey Perloff

Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Firms and Organizations • Immigration • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Work & Technology

Ajay Pillarisetti

Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Public Health

California State Policy • Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Poverty & Inequality • Public Policy

Anna Powell

Associate Director, Research and & Policy

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

California State Policy • Early Childhood Education • Gender

Aruna Ranganathan

Associate Professor

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Immigration • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Work & Technology

Steven Raphael

IRLE Director & Professor and James D. Marver Chair in Public Policy

Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Criminal Justice • Housing • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work

Michael Reich

Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics & Professor of Economics

Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics

Gig Economy • Global Labor • Minimum Wage & Living Wage • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Nari Rhee

Director, Retirement Security Program

Labor Center

Retirement Security

Danielle Rivera

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

College of Environmental Design

California State Policy • Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Poverty & Inequality • Race & Ethnicity

Victoria Robinson

Continuing Lecturer & American Cultures Program Director

Ethnic Studies

Criminal Justice • Education • Higher Education • Race & Ethnicity

Jesse Rothstein

California Policy Lab Faculty Director; Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy and David Pierpont Gardner Chair in Higher Education; Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education

California Policy Lab

Education • Finance & Financial Reform • Global Labor • Methods • Tax Policy • Unemployment

Emmanuel Saez

Professor of Economics & Director, Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality

Economics

Poverty & Inequality • Tax Policy

James Sallee

Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Public Finance • Public Policy

Carlos Schmidt-Padilla

Assistant Professor

Goldman School of Public Policy

Criminal Justice • Education • Global Labor • Immigration • Labor Markets • Public Policy

Benjamin Schoefer

Associate Professor

Economics

Firms and Organizations • Global Labor • Labor Markets • Low-Wage Work • Public Policy • Recession • Unemployment • Unions • Workers’ Rights

Juliana Schroeder

Harold Furst Chair in Management Philosophy and Values Professor

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Work & Technology

Joseph Shapiro

Associate Professor

Agricultural and Resource Economics, Economics

Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change

Alissa Skog

Researcher

California Policy Lab

Criminal Justice • Health Care • Methods • Social Safety Net

Sameer Srivastava

Ewald T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy; Chair, Management of Organizations; Co-Director, Computational Culture Lab; Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Work & Technology

Kim Voss

Professor

Sociology

Education • Higher Education • Immigration • Unions • Workers’ Rights

Julia Walsh

Climate and Society Center Coordinator and Senior Research Scientist, Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability

Climate and Society Center

Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Health Care

Margaret Weir

Professor of Sociology and Political Science & Avice M. Saint Chair in Public Policy

Sociology

Housing • Poverty & Inequality • Public Policy • Social Safety Net

Evan White

Executive Director

California Policy Lab

Finance & Financial Reform • Housing • Race & Ethnicity • Work & Technology

Marcy Whitebook

Director Emerita

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

Early Childhood Education

Guo Xu

Assistant Professor

Haas School of Business

Firms and Organizations • Labor Markets • Public Policy

Danny Yagan

Associate Professor

Economics

Public Finance • Tax Policy

Chunyan Yang

Associate Professor

School of Education

Early Childhood Education • Education

Carol Zabin

Senior Advisor on the Green Economy

Labor Center

Global Labor • Green Economy and Impacts of Climate Change • Labor Markets • Unions

J. Nicholas Ziegler

Professor Emeritus

Political Science

Work & Technology