People in Population Sciences at Berkeley
High-calibre research is conducted on campus by established faculty researchers and postdoctoral scholars, supported by research programs within our Schools, Colleges, and Centers. Almost one hundred faculty and researchers from a range of academic disciplines are engaged in population research at UC Berkeley. Search researchers below by Center Affiliation, Research Theme, or Academic Department.
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Michael Anderson |
Agricultural & Resource Economics Keywords: environmental economics, health economics, applied econometrics, transportation |
mlanderson@berkeley.edu |
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J. Keith Gilless |
Agricultural & Resource Economics Keywords: Economic analysis and operations research modeling techniques to address forest resource management issues, including market forecasting, resource-dependent local economies, the role of forestry in international development, protected area management |
gilless@berkeley.edu |
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Ethan Ligon |
Agricultural & Resource Economics Keywords: applied econometrics, development economics, household allocations |
ligon@are.berkeley.edu |
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Jeremy Magruder |
Agricultural & Resource Economics Keywords: unemployment, networks, HIV/AIDS |
jmagruder@berkeley.edu |
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Jonathan Simon |
Berkeley Law Keywords: sociology of law, mass incarceration |
jsimon@law.berkeley.edu |
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Jason Corburn |
City and Regional Planning Keywords: environmental economics, health economics, climtae change |
jcorburn@berkeley.edu |
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Magali Barbieri |
Demography Keywords: mortality, formal demography |
magali@demog.berkeley.edu |
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Carl Boe |
Demography Keywords: mortality, formal demography, biodemography |
boe@demog.berkeley.edu |
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Gretchen Donehower |
Demography Keywords: microsimulation, intergenerational transfers, time-use |
gretchen@demog.berkeley.edu |
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Dennis Feehan |
Demography Keywords: sampling, mortality, migration, computational social science |
feehan@berkeley.edu |
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Joshua Goldstein |
Demography Keywords: fertility, population aging, social demography, formal demography |
josh@demog.berkeley.edu |
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Eugene Hammel |
Demography Keywords: statistical and formal analysis, stratification, historical demography, microsimulation, anthropological demography |
gene@demog.berkeley.edu |
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Jennifer Johnson-Hanks |
Demography Keywords: kinship, reproduction, social practice |
Johnsonhanks@demog.berkeley.edu |
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Leora Lawton |
Demography Keywords: family demography, intergenerational relationships, social networks |
llawton@berkeley.edu |
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Ronald Lee |
Demography Keywords: mathematical demography, intergenerational transfers, economic demography |
rlee@demog.berkeley.edu |
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Carl Mason | Demography | cmason@berkeley.edu |
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Kenneth W. Wachter |
Demography Keywords: historical demography, mathematical demography |
wachter@demog.berkeley.edu |
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Alan Auerbach |
Economics Keywords: domestic and international tax policy; fiscal policy and demographic change; inequality and tax policy |
auerbach@econ.berkeley.edu |
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David Card |
Economics Keywords: economics, labor, welfare, affirmative action, minimum wages, race, uninsured, employment training |
card@econ.berkeley.edu |
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Stefano DellaVigna |
Economics Keywords: behavioral economics, experimental design |
sdellavi@econ.berkeley.edu |
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Ben Handel |
Economics Keywords: Health Insurance Markets, Decision-Making Under Uncertainty, Health Care Provision |
handel@berkeley.edu |
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Shachar Kariv |
Economics Keywords: Social networks, social learning, personal and social preferences |
kariv@econ.berkeley.edu |
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Ulrike M. Malmendier |
Economics Keywords: Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, Behavioral Economics, Economics of Organizations, Contract Theory, Law & Finance, Economics Of Institutions, Economics And Psychology |
ulrike@econ.berkeley.edu |
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Daniel McFadden |
Economics Keywords: Economics of aging: savings behavior, demographic trends, housing mobility, dynamics of health and mortality; consumer demand analysis using psychometric data; simulation methods in econometrics |
mcfadden@econ.berkeley.edu |
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Edward Miguel |
Economics Keywords: African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; and interactions between health, education, and productivity for the poor. |
emiguel@econ.berkeley.edu |
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Enrico Moretti |
Economics Keywords: labor and urban economics, wage inequality, local labor markets, cities |
moretti@berkeley.edu |
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Emmanuel Saez |
Economics Keywords: income and wealth inequality |
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Wayne Getz |
Environmental Science Policy and Management Keywords: population modeling epidemiology |
wgetz@berkeley.edu |
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Leontine Alkema |
External Affiliates Keywords: Bayesian inference; Statistical demography, Family planning, Global health, child and maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, Fertility, Population projections, Urbanization, Poverty measurement. |
staal@nus.edu.sg |
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James Carey |
External Affiliates Keywords: longevity, biodemography |
jrcarey@ucdavis.edu |
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Eileen Crimmins |
External Affiliates Keywords: health and mortality; demography of older populations; socioeconomic differences in health; biological risk |
crimmin@usc.edu |
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Ryan Edwards |
External Affiliates Keywords: economics of aging and health, macroeconomics, public finance, economic demography, national security, immigration |
ryanedw@berkeley.edu |
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Andrew Mason |
External Affiliates Keywords: Population economics, macroeconomics, economic growth, intergenerational transfers |
amason@hawaii.edu |
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Luis Rosero-Bixby |
External Affiliates Keywords: longevity, fiscal impacts of aging, health in Latin America |
lrosero@me.com |
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David Steinsaltz |
External Affiliates Keywords: Stochastic processes, biodemography, mathematical biology |
steinsal@stats.ox.ac.uk |
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Shripad Tuljapurkar |
External Affiliates Keywords: stochastic dynamics of populations, senescence, aging and fiscal balance |
tulja@stanford.edu |
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John R. Wilmoth |
External Affiliates Keywords: morbidity and mortality, life expectancy, life span, forecasting, comparative studies, parametric models |
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Emilio Zagheni |
External Affiliates Keywords: Big data, migration, mathematical demography |
sekzagheni@demogr.mpg.de |
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Paul Gertler |
Haas School of Business Keywords: health economics, impact evaluation, development economics |
gertler@haas.berkeley.edu |
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Ming Hsu |
Haas School of Business Keywords: Cognitive Neuroscience, neural basis of economic and consumer decision-making |
mhsu@haas.berkeley.edu |
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Jonathan Kolstad |
Haas School of Business Keywords: health economics, applied microeconomics |
jkolstad@berkeley.edu |
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David Levine |
Haas School of Business Keywords: Economic decision-making and environmentally safe and sustainable behaviors, such as adoption of cookstoves, safe water methods |
levine@haas.berkeley.edu |
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Don Moore | Haas School of Business | dmoore@haas.berkeley.edu |
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Judith Campisi | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Jcampisi@lbl.gov |
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Richard Ivry | Psychology | ivry@berkeley.edu |
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Barbara Abrams |
Public Health Keywords: Weight and weight gain in women during pregnancy, postpartum and menopause, Maternal weight, nutrition, social factors and perinatal health outcomes, expressed and heat-treated breast milk and perinatal HIV transmission |
babrams@berkeley.edu |
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Jennifer Ahern |
Public Health Keywords: Social epidemiology, neighborhoods, substance use, risk factors |
jahern@berkeley.edu |
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Amani M. Allen |
Public Health Keywords: Race and socioeconomic health disparities,Biobehavioral and psychobiological pathways for health disparities, Stress and coping, Mixed methods research (quantitative and qualitative) |
amaniallen@berkeley.edu |
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Ralph Catalano |
Public Health Keywords: economics, health care, jobs, labor, unemployment on health, mortality |
rayc@berkeley.edu |
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Julianna Deardorff |
Public Health Keywords: Pubertal development; Adolescent sexuality and reproductive health; Promotion of positive mental health among children and adolescents; Latina families and health behaviors; Stress and coping |
jdeardorff@berkeley.edu |
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William Dow |
Public Health Keywords: health economics, global health, economic demography, health policy |
wdow@berkeley.edu |
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Brenda Eskenazi |
Public Health Keywords: pesticides, health behavior, social support, agriculture, morbidity, farm |
eskenazi@berkeley.edu |
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Lia Fernald |
Public Health Keywords: poverty, obesity, child development, public health nutrition,Latino health, Mexican-Americans and other immigrant groups |
fernald@berkeley.edu |
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Darlene Francis |
Public Health Keywords: biological basis of health disparities, stress |
darlenefrancis@berkeley.edu |
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Sylvia Guendelman |
Public Health Keywords: reproductive health of immigrant women, women's health, access to health care for disadvantaged populations, including the working poor, health along the U.S.-Mexico border |
sylviag@berkeley.edu |
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Denise Herd |
Public Health Keywords: health disparities, images of alcohol, drugs, and violence in rap music, activism in African American communities, Drinking and drug use patterns and problems, social movements, multicultural health |
tiara@berkeley.edu |
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Seth M. Holmes |
Public Health Keywords: Immigration, health effects, medical anthropology, HIV |
sethmholmes@berkeley.edu |
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Barbara Laraia |
Public Health Keywords: Household food insecurity, Food and social environment, Health disparities, Perinatal Epi, Obesity, Diabetes, Dietary assessment methods |
blaraia@berkeley.edu |
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Mahasin S. Mujahid |
Public Health Keywords: Multi-level determinants of racial/ethnic health disparities, Neighborhood environments and cardiovascular health, Breast cancer treatment and survivorship, Methods in social epidemiology, Population health |
mmujahid@berkeley.edu |
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Emily Ozer |
Public Health Keywords: School and community-based interventions, Promotion of mental and physical health among adolescents, Violence prevention, Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
eozer@berkeley.edu |
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Nancy Padian |
Public Health Keywords: Epidemiology and prevention of sexually transmitted infectionsincluding HIV, Reproductive health, Design of public health interventions, Impact evaluation |
npadian@berkeley.edu |
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Malcolm Potts |
Public Health Keywords: international family planning, Reducing barriers to contraception and safe abortion, Reducing maternal deaths, Biological origins of human warfare, AIDS prevention |
potts@berkeley.edu |
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Ndola Prata |
Public Health Keywords: Maternal mortality, Cost-effectiveness in family planning and abortion, Adolescent reproductive health services, Health care delivery systems, poverty and health |
ndola@berkeley.edu |
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Lee Riley |
Public Health Keywords: Field epidemiology, international health, slum health, Molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis |
lwriley@berkeley.edu |
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Claire Snell-Rood |
Public Health Keywords: qualitative methods, gender and health, social inequality |
clairesnellrood@berkeley.edu |
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Daniel Acland |
Public Policy Keywords: Benefit-Cost Analysis, Behavioral Economics, Behavior Change, Public Health |
acland@berkeley.edu |
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Hilary Hoynes |
Public Policy Keywords: Tax Policy, Labor and Employment, Poverty & Inequality, Children, Youth and Families, Government |
hoynes@berkeley.edu |
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Rucker Johnson |
Public Policy Keywords: health disparities, intergenerational mobility |
ruckerj@berkeley.edu |
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Jane Mauldon |
Public Policy Keywords: Demography, Children, Youth & Families, Program Evaluation, Race & Ethnicity, Quantitative Methods, Social Welfare, Health, Poverty |
jmauldon@berkeley.edu |
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Steven Raphael |
Public Policy Keywords: Labor & Employment, Criminal Justice, Quantitative Methods, Economic Policy, Housing & Urban Policy, Immigration, Poverty & Inequality, Employment Discrimination, Labor Economics, Racial Inequality, Urban Economics |
stevenraphael@berkeley.edu |
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Jesse Rothstein |
Public Policy Keywords: Tax Policy, Economic Policy, Education, Labor and Employment, Program Evaluation, Public Finance, Quantitative Methods |
rothstein@berkeley.edu |
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Anu Manchikanti Gomez |
Social Welfare Keywords: Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV Prevention, Gender Equit, Violence against Women, Transgender Health, Health Equity, Social Determinants of Health |
anugomez@berkeley.edu |
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Erin Kerrison |
Social Welfare Keywords: legal epidemiology, privatization of healthcare, criminal justice organization and policy |
kerrison@berkeley.edu |
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Irene Bloemraad |
Sociology Keywords: Immigration, political sociology, race & ethnicity, social movements, nationalism, research methods, Canada |
bloemr@berkeley.edu |
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Claude Fischer |
Sociology Keywords: Personal networks, social history, social psychology, urban, technology |
fischer1@berkeley.edu |
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David Harding |
Sociology Keywords: poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, incarceration and prisoner reentry, education, neighborhood effects, urban communities, adolescence |
dharding@berkeley.edu |
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Heather Haveman |
Sociology Keywords: Organizational theory, economic sociology, historical sociology, entrepreneurship, organizational demography, gender, careers and social mobility |
hoynes@berkeley.edu |
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Mara Loveman |
Sociology Keywords: Comparative and historical sociology, political sociology, ethnoracial politics, development, demography, Latin America |
mloveman@berkeley.edu |
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Trond Petersen |
Sociology Keywords: Organizations, social stratification, inequality, economic sociology, comparative studies, quantitative methods |
trond@haas.berkeley.edu |
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Daniel Schneider |
Sociology Keywords: Social Demography, Inequality, Family, Wealth and Household Finance |
djschneider@berkeley.edu |
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Ann Swidler |
Sociology Keywords: Culture, religion, theory, institutionalization, African responses to HIV/AIDS |
swidler@berkeley.edu |
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