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Creating a Modern, Sustainable, Caring Economy

Clair Brown - Professor, Economics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

URAP team focuses on the Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Policy Index (SSPI), which is a dynamic composite metric tracking 57 indicators of global public policy to evaluate how well countries support people and the planet, encompassing more than 66 countries with data pulled from major institutional databases such as the World...

 Social Sciences

Economic Analysis of California Climate-Justice Bills and Policies

Clair Brown - Professor, Economics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

The URAP-Climate Economics team will evaluate a few major climate equity bills being considered by California Legislature. At the beginning of the fall term, the team will focus on analyzing the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act, which is a bill that has been considered by the California legislature for...

 Social Sciences

Early-Stage Research in Behavioral Economics and Applied Micro

Stefano DellaVigna - Professor, Economics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This URAP project exposes the students to 2-3 ongoing projects that the professor (Stefano) is working on. The idea of this URAP group is to provide a sampling of research at the frontier in applied behavioral economics and in other areas of applied microeconomics that Stefano works on. As such...

 Social Sciences

Building Infrastructure for Undergraduate Sports Analytics Instruction at Cal

Bryan Graham - Professor, Economics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Sports analytics involves the use of data to improve training, performance and in-competition decision-making. The field has grown tremendously over the past 25+ years. Many professional and collegiate teams rely on analytics professionals for scouting, recruitment and athlete retention. Sports analytics also influences current practice in sports journalism...

 Social Sciences

Research in Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Finance: The Experience Effects Book

Ulrike Malmendier - Professor, Economics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are looking for highly motivated apprentices interested in behavioral economics or behavioral finance research for the 2026 fall semester. The Experience Effects Book Professor Malmendier’s upcoming book combines all the insights she has gained through her extensive research on “experience effects” in economics. Experience effects refer to the ways...

 Social Sciences

(Ancient) Law and its Role for Financial and Economic Development (Or: Business Corporations in the Roman Republic)

Ulrike Malmendier - Professor, Economics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

One of the most exciting areas of research in economics is “Law and Economics/Finance." This research starts from a central question in economics: What are the causes of financial development and economic growth? Why do some countries flourish while others do not? The “Law and Finance” literature suggests that...

 Social Sciences

Stress and Economics: Exploring the Alleviating Role of Predictability and Controllability

Ulrike Malmendier - Professor, Economics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project studies how predictability and control shape workers' response to economic stress. The project builds on a growing body of neuroscience research showing that the same stressful event — a job loss, a pay cut, an unpredictable schedule — can have very different effects on a person's mental health and long...

 Social Sciences

Can Generative AI Help UC Berkeley Students Get the Support They Need? Testing an AI Companion and Digital Navigator for Students.

Gautam Rao - Professor, Economics

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     

Interested in field experiments, primary data collection, and research management? Join a research team at UC Berkeley studying how to support student mental health at scale. Laura Chioda, Paul Gertler, and Gautam Rao are leading a randomized evaluation of a new approach to wellness support for students at UC Berkeley...

 Social Sciences

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