Michael Reich is professor of economics and chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment of the University of California, Berkeley. He served as director of IRLE from 2004 to 2015. 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, Japanese labor-management systems, living wages, and minimum wages. Reich received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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Michael Carr
Michael Carr is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and research fellow at the Center for Social Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research focus is on the relationship between inequality, earnings dynamics, and public supports. His recent work focuses on the differential effects of minimum wage changes on individuals with and without public supports, and the relationship between rising inequality and trends in short-run earnings instability and long-run earnings mobility. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his B.A. in economics from Kalamazoo College.
Michael Barr
Michael S. Barr is a former member of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth’s Research Advisory Board. He took office as the vice chair for supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on July 19, 2022 for a four-year term. He also serves as a member of the Board of Governors for an unexpired term ending January 31, 2032. Prior to his appointment to the Board, Mr. Barr was the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, the Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and the founder and faculty director of the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law & Policy. At the University of Michigan Law School, Mr. Barr taught financial regulation and international finance and co-founded the International Transactions Clinic and the Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, his M.Phil. in international relations as a Rhodes Scholar from Magdalen College, Oxford University, and his B.A., summa cum laude, with honors in history, from Yale University.
Meredith Kleykamp
Meredith Kleykamp is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and director of the Center for Research on Military Organization. She is also a faculty associate of the Maryland Population Research Center. Prior to joining the UMD faculty in 2010, she was an assistant professor at the University of Kansas and previously taught at the United States Military Academy (West Point). Kleykamp’s research focuses on people’s work lives, their jobs, earnings, and careers. Her work has been published in journals such as American Sociological Review, Future of Children, Social Forces, and Armed Forces and Society. She received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2007, and a B.A. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Mi Luo
Mi Luo is an assistant professor of economics at Emory University. Her research interests include macroeconomics, labor economics, financial economics, and behavioral economics. She received her Ph.D. in economics from New York University in 2017, her M.A. in economics from Peking University in 2011, and her B.A. in economics and English literature from Peking University in 2008.
Maya Rossin-Slater
Maya Rossin-Slater is an associate professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics. Rossin-Slater’s research includes work in health, public, and labor economics. She focuses on issues in maternal and child well-being, family structure and behavior, and policies targeting disadvantaged populations in the United States and other developed countries. Previously, she was an assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics at Columbia University and her B.A. in economics and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Marta Lachowska
Marta Lachowska is a senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and an affiliated researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, or SOFI, at Stockholm University. Her area of interest is mainly in the field of economics of social insurance, with a focus on the impact of unemployment insurance on labor market outcomes. She is also interested in economic applications of survey-based measures such as consumer confidence and measures of subjective well-being. Prior to coming to the W.E. Upjohn Institute, she spent three semesters at Princeton University’s Industrial Relations Section as a visiting predoctoral researcher.
Marta Murray-Close
Marta Murray-Close is a research economist at the U.S. Census Bureau. Murray-Close received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan and a M.A. degree in public policy from the University of Minnesota. Murray-Close’s research focuses on the diversity of modern family arrangements with a special interest in the economics of gender and sexual orientation and the economics of nontraditional families. She explores the implications of work-family trade-offs for the personal and professional lives of men and women where heterosexual married couples.
Mariana Zerpa
Mariana Zerpa is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Leuven and a research affiliate at the Institute for the Study of Labor. Her research lies primarily in the intersection of labor and public economics, with applications in health, education, and development economics. One of her main areas of research is human capital accumulation during childhood, and it examines how parental decisions interact with family economic circumstances and welfare and social insurance programs to shape the production of human capital and health during childhood. Another focus of her research is the study of welfare programs and social insurance in developing countries. Zerpa received a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Arizona and a B.A. in economics at Universidad de la República in Uruguay.
Manasi Deshpande
Manasi Deshpande is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. Her research areas are empirical public finance and labor economics, with a focus on the effects of social insurance and public assistance programs and their interaction with labor markets. She holds a B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.