Postdoctoral Fellows
Aging and Health Research
Supported by the National Institute on Aging and NBER
![Woojin Kim](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/kim240x256.png?itok=YUmCDF5e)
Woojin Kim is studying the political polarization in medical practice between Republican and Democratic physicians.
![Chika Okafor](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/ChikaOkafor240x256.jpg?itok=2tKForjN)
Chika Okafor studies how the criminal legal system impacts health outcomes and disparities
Agricultural Economics Supported by the USDA under agreement 59-1000-2-0076
![Sean Kiely](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/Sean%20Kiely240x256.jpg?itok=ZzkYFoQ2)
Sean Kiely, will be studying the impact of information and food labeling policies in affecting household demand for food products.
Diversity in Economics
Supported by NBER
![Michael Navarrete](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/Michael%20Navarrete240x256.jpg?itok=y6SETx7f)
Michael Navarrete is studying heterogenous inflation rates within the US and how these differences can exacerbate real income inequality.
Economics of an Aging Workforce
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
![Rainer Kotschy](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-07/Rainer%20Kotschy240x256.jpg?itok=azVk45u0)
Rainer Kotschy is an applied economist who researches the life cycle of economic activity with special emphasis on health and aging. His work spans topics in labor and demographic economics, health, and economic development at the micro and macro levels.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Economic Outcomes
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, grant G-2021-16980
![Brandon Enriquez](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-05/brandon-enriquez_240x256.jpg?itok=EpS7VwEo)
Brandon Enriquez is researching how labor market institutions and macroeconomic trade shocks shape the trajectory of racial inequality in the United States.
Retirement and Disability Policy Research
Supported by the US Social Security Administration
![Bahar Eftekhari](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/Bahar%20Eftekhari240x256.jpg?itok=-LDzgjtM)
Bahar Eftekhari is studying the impact of the Children’s Health Insurance Program on the financial well-being of Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries.
Graduate Fellows
Aging and Health Research
Supported by the National Institute on Aging and NBER
![Theodore L. Caputi Profile Photo](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/caputi240x256.jpg?itok=UtigACd2)
Theodore Caputi is studying behavioral aspects of public health, such as drug use, violence, and crime, and their effects on economic outcomes.
![Rebekah Dix](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/Rebekah%20Dix240x256.jpg?itok=jOsOAQQO)
Rebekah Dix is studying externalities in medical innovation and how interoperability and technological frictions affect patients and healthcare providers.
![Dean Li](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/li240x256.jpg?itok=pd97_iWc)
Dean Li is studying the effects of outsourcing, technological change, and consolidation on healthcare labor markets and healthcare delivery.
![Kelsey Moran](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/moran240x256.jpg?itok=UQCYTyoc)
Kelsey Moran is studying the factors influencing hospital provision of charity care as well as the effects of health information exchange on patients and organizations.
![Graeme Peterson](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/Graeme%20Peterson240x256.jpg?itok=AudN0o0K)
Graeme Peterson is studying health insurance markets, environmental health, and the causes and consequences of racial disparities in the US healthcare system.
Behavioral Macroeconomics
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
![Michael D. Cai](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/cai240x256.png?itok=ZDpDau2W)
Michael Cai is developing a semi-structural approach to estimating macroeconomic models, which accommodates wide classes of non-rational expectations.
![Matteo Saccarola](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/saccarola240x256.png?itok=BBWY1YAy)
Matteo Saccarola is doing research on belief formation over inflation, exchange rates, and prices, using a combination of survey experiments and applied microeconomics.
![Lingxuan Sean Wu](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-04/lingxuan_wu_240x256_0.jpg?itok=rq0nIpQn)
Lingxuan "Sean" Wu studies people’s (mis-)understanding of economic relations and its implications for shock transmission and stabilization policy, employing a combination of theoretical, empirical and survey methods.
Consumer Financial Management
Supported by the Institute of Consumer Money Management
![Justin Katz](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-04/Katz240x256.jpg?itok=qdq2gqra)
Justin Katz studies frictions in household debt repayment decisions to guide the design of government interventions in consumer credit markets, with a particular focus on the mortgage and housing sector.
![Grace Ortuzar](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-04/Grace%20Ortuzar240x256.jpg?itok=oJSkD_FF)
Grace Ortuzar is examining policies designed to benefit low-income tenants and reduce homelessness.
Retirement and Disability Policy Research
Supported by the US Social Security Administration
![Melissa Gentry](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/Melissa%20Gentry240x256.jpg?itok=Dgw0Joux)
Melissa Gentry is studying barriers to employment for people with disabilities, with a focus on access to transportation
![Sydney Gordon](/sites/default/files/styles/author_card/public/2024-08/Sydney%20Gordon240x256.jpg?itok=ZfUHg62R)
Sydney Gordon is researching the role that field office staffing plays in benefits enrollments at the Social Security Administration, with a focus on understanding the differing impacts of administrative burden across populations.