Meet the Current RAs

David Cai

Penn State University

David is interested in research topics related to environmental economics and industrial organization.

Anna Durall

Macalester College

Anna's research interests are still very broad. She enjoys the work she's doing in macroeconomics and monetary policy but also finds urban and health economics particularly interesting.

Caleb Fitzpatrick

Drexel University (M.S.), Liberty University (B.S.)

Caleb is interested in researching quality-of-life differences across the income and wealth spectrums. This includes questions about how quality of life is measured, how institutions can help mitigate inequalities in quality of life, and the willingness of individuals to participate in programs designed to help improve the quality of life of others.

Benjamin Grzyb

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Benjamin's research interests include monetary policy, the Phillips curve, and financial crises.

Maddie Haddix

Boston College

Maddie generally researches household finance.

Rees Hagler

Rutgers University

Rees' research interests include education, health, and immigration. She is particularly motived by the intersection of these topics with public policy and is excited by the opportunity to support research that contributes to informed policy decisions.

Nick Hall

University of Connecticut (M.P.P., B.A.)

Nick's research interests are applied microeconomics, labor economics, and industrial organization.

Insoo Kang

Boston University

Insoo is interested in using macroeconomics and finance to better understand how monetary and financial issues impact commercial lending across different financial institutions.

Caitlin Kawamura

College of the Holy Cross

Caitlin's broad research focuses include education and the environment, especially water rights. She is particularly interested in how economics can intersect with public policy to find solutions to political problems.

Cole Kurokawa

University of Connecticut

The areas that particularly interest Cole are macroeconomics, financial economics, monetary policy, financial stability and regulation, and economic history.

Annie (Nini) Liu

University of Edinburgh (M.A. Hons)

Annie's research interests lie in applied microeconomics, particularly labor, health, and urban economics. She firmly believes that economic research can be leveraged via policy to bridge the gap between academia and the real world and create meaningful change.

Alejandra Guadarrama-Mojica

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Alejandra's research interests lie at the intersection of environmental and development economics. She is also interested in labor economics with a concentration in gender and socioeconomic inequality.

Nathaniel Nelson

University of Minnesota

Nathaniel's research interests include applied microeconomics, labor economics, econometrics, and political economy.

Ara Patvakanian

University of Pennsylvania

Ara's research interests center on the intersection of macroeconomic modeling, financial economics, and monetary policy.

Kathryn Peaquin

London School of Economics (M.Sc.), Boston College (B.A.)

Kathryn's primary research interest centers on how the intersection of law, economics, and finance can be utilized to craft legislation and public policy focused on ensuring inclusive and sustainable economies.

Julian Perry

Tufts University

Julian is interested in applied econometrics, survey design, and other methodological tools that can be used to study the effects of public policy.

Lilia Qian

Duke University

Lilia's interests are in the philosophy of science and the history of economic thought.

John Saunders

University at Buffalo (SUNY)

John's research interests include inflation, currency, and inequality.

Ella Steciuk

Amherst College

Ella is most interested in studying how exogenous shocks affect the economic outcomes or other welfare-related outcomes of vulnerable communities, particularly the disabled community; studying other social phenomena through methods in applied microeconomics; and studying how econometric methods and machine-learning techniques can be extended to perform causal inference on new classes of economic questions.

Michael Wicklein

Boston College (M.S), Loyola University Maryland (B.B.A.)

Michael is interested in research on labor economics, public economics, and public policy.

Maximillian Worth

Grinnell College

Maximillian's research interests are causal inference and applied microeconomics with a focus toward public policy.