Umberto Muratori was a Dissertation Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2019 – 2020.
Umberto Muratori is a Max Weber Post-doctoral Fellow at European University Institute with interests in macroeconomics and firm dynamics. He is a former dissertation scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University, an M.Sc. in quantitative economics from Bonn University in Germany, and a B.Sc. in European economics from Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata.
Lauren Russell was a Dissertation Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2021–2022.
Lauren Russell is a Ph.D. candidate in public policy at Harvard University. Her research interests lie in labor economics and public finance, with a focus on the intersections of poverty, race, and inequality. She is specifically interested in the intersections of neighborhood sorting, residential segregation, U.S housing policy, and the U.S. criminal legal system. She earned an M.A. in economics from Duke University and a B.A. in classics with a minor in economics from Harvard University. In addition to her passion for research, Russell is passionate about teaching economics to students who are historically underrepresented in the economics field. She has served as a teaching fellow for advanced econometrics for the American Economics Association’s Summer Pipeline program, and she has served as a teaching fellow for numerous undergraduate econometrics courses at Harvard University.
Angela Lee was a Dissertation Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2019–2021.
Angela Lee is a Research Scientist at Facebook specializing in quantitative research methods, including survey methodology and causal inference. She is a former dissertation scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her dissertation examines how gender and parenthood shape the accumulation of wealth in the United States. Other portions of her work focus on crime and criminal justice and have been published in Social Science Research and the Journal of Drug Issues. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard University. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University and a B.A. in sociology from Yale University.
Kyle Moore was a Dissertation Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2018 – 2019.
Kyle K. Moore is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. He was previously a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. Moore is pursuing a Ph.D. in economics at The New School for Social Research, studying racial economic disparities and the effects of poorly designed economic policy on marginalized groups. His goal is to conduct interdisciplinary, historically contextualized, and policy-oriented economic research directed at explaining and reducing racial inequality in the United States. His current research focuses on the effects of disparities in income, wealth, and exposure to stressful events on racial disparities in health.
Matthew Staiger was a Dissertation Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2020 – 2021.
Matthew Staiger earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Maryland. He is a former dissertation scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. His primary field is labor economics, with a particular interest in studying issues related to inequality and economic mobility. His dissertation combines administrative and survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau to study how the career paths of young workers are shaped by the resources of their parents. Prior to starting graduate school, Matthew worked in South Africa as a research fellow with the Economic Policy Research Institute.
Robert Lynch was a Visiting Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2014 – 2015.
Robert G. Lynch is the Young Ja Lim professor in economics at Washington College, where he has taught since the fall of 1998. From 1983 to 1998, he taught at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he served as chair of the Department of Economics between 1991 and 1993. He also taught at Huanghe University (1985–86) in the People’s Republic of China. His areas of specialization include international economics, public policy, public finance, economic development, and comparative economics. Lynch earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his bachelor of arts degree in international and development economics from Georgetown University.
Jacob Robbins was a Dissertation Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2017 – 2018.
Jacob Robbins is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in inequality and macroeconomics. His research uses theory and data to understand key economic trends in the U.S. economy, such as changes in inequality, the rise of monopoly power, and secular stagnation. His research on secular stagnation was awarded the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics best paper of the year in 2020. He received a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Dartmouth College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.
Christina Patterson was a Dissertation Scholar at Equitable Growth from 2018 – 2019.
Christina Patterson is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. She got her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019 with a focus in macroeconomics and labor. Prior to MIT, she worked in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was a 2018 Dissertation Scholar at Equitable Growth. She also holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where she majored in economics and mathematics. Her research explores how individuals search for jobs during recessions, how workers select occupations, and how these individual decisions affect the aggregate labor market’s response to economic downturns.
