URAP

Clair Brown - Professor, Economics

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

This project focuses on the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act, which is currently a bill being considered by the California legislature. Students will learn about the bill, and add to the economic analysis of the bill that earlier URAP teams did. Here is a report on the Economic Analysis of...

Tamma Carleton - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

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

We are looking for highly motivated students interested in conducting research and analyses on a project investigating the impacts of climate change on human migration at global scale. This research initiative aims to leverage large historical datasets to empirically quantify how human migration responds to climate change, both within and...

Yu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) is a welfare-to-work (WTW) program that provides cash aid and services to needy families with children in California. In order to receive cash aid, adult enrollees are required to participate in work-related activities. Non-compliance will cause a...

Yu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project aims to investigate the features of global welfare regimes with a focus on social protection systems. Dr. Yu-Ling Chang is collaborating with Dr. Julia Shu-Huah Wang at the National Taiwan University and social policy scholars from 20+ countries on this project. We use the model family...

Yu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Paid family leave benefits the well-being of workers and their family members (including newborns, adopted children, and ill family members) by offering partially or fully compensated time away from work for family caregiving. However, the U.S. is exceptional because it is the only wealthy country without a national-level...

Emmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Medicaid is a public health insurance that in California, covers more than one in three Californians. CalAIM is a multiyear plan to transform California's Medicaid program (known as "Medi-Cal"). This project focuses on evaluating implementation of new Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports benefits in California's Medicaid program, and...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

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

Computational cognitive models are mathematical tools that help us understand the underlying processes of human cognition. Researchers use these models to test different hypotheses about how the mind works. Traditionally, selecting the best model to explain human behavior relies on standard statistical techniques like maximum likelihood estimation. However, these methods...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Habits are inflexible patterns of behavior that have become deeply ingrained through repetition. When it comes to situations we are likely to encounter often, habitual control can be effective and efficient. When passing by the Campanile en route to class, you might turn left automatically, and eventually arrive at your...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

From founding a startup to climbing the tallest peaks, people set a wide range of objectives for themselves. How do people decide which goals to set? How do they manage progress towards different – and perhaps competing – objectives? The proposed research plans to investigate goal setting in a range of naturalistic...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Navigating complex natural environments presents a robust challenge to even the most advanced artificial systems, yet humans can often handle these same challenges effortlessly. What algorithms underly these human capabilities to learn and generalize so efficiently? My research investigates the learning algorithms implemented by the human brain to efficiently act...

Meg Conkey - Professor, Anthropology

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

This project involves developing a historical account of the women's sports at Cal in the years prior to the passage of Title-IX ( 1979) given that there were quite a few active teams and women student-athletes...

Marianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric

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

Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law is a book-length manuscript concerned with a particular defense known as the new unwritten law, which supposedly exonerated women accused of killing their husbands in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. The point of the book is to explore...

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This is an archival project on the history of the printing press and development of print culture in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This is an archival project on the history of the circulation of books in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents and books that circulated in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

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

How can we write a history of Latine feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? Knowing more about this can give us a better sense of two things: how have Latine communities expressed...

Clayton Critcher - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

In my lab, we work on a variety of topics at the intersection of social psychology, judgment and decision making, and consumer behavior. Almost all questions are addressed with the use of behavioral experiments. At present, we are answering questions like the following: *When do consumers defer to product-review...

Sean Darling-Hammond - Professor, Public Health

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

Sean Darling-Hammond is an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and the PI for the THESIS lab which stands for Thriving and Health Equity through Social Inclusion in Schools Dr. Darling-Hammond, and the THESIS team, conduct research to ascertain how k-12 school practices...

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Project Overview This research bridges machine learning with behavioral science, finance, and law to study how algorithms can model human interaction and predict institutional outcomes. Illustrative Studies Team Performance: Train ML models on recordings of group collaboration to identify behavioral patterns predictive of team success. Startup Success: Use profiles of...

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project focuses on designing and launching behavioral experiments to understand decision-making and social behavior in various contexts, including social media, taxes, and online dating. By setting up controlled field and lab studies, the research team aims to capture real-world behavioral data that can provide insights into how...

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project investigates how cultural factors influence individual motivation, focusing on a field experiment conducted in Kenya. By examining how local cultural values, beliefs, and social norms impact motivation, the study aims to provide deeper insights into the relationship between culture and economic behaviors. The research assistant will support the...

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Guns and power go together. Like today, most forms of inequality in the global 19th century depended on a weapons gap. The unequal distribution of firearms helped determine power relations both between countries and within countries. Where did all those guns come from? And why did some have so many...

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Are you interested in history? Intrigued by the secrets locked away in old, handwritten letters? Do you want to help create new knowledge about the past through archival research? Or put technical skills to work understanding the past? If so, here’s your chance. Brian DeLay (Professor of History) and Julia...

Brian DeLay - Professor, History

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

None of the revolutionaries who transformed the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries could mass-produce their own guns and ammunition. They had to rely on the international arms trade. Aim at Empire is the first book to explore how access to weapons (or lack thereof) shaped...

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...

William Dow, Public Health

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Mexico’s public healthcare system has faced underfunding, leading to saturation of primary services and reducing the quality and accessibility for the population. Moreover, there is still a large population that remains uninsured. As a response, people have sought private services to cover their demands. In the last 20 years, Pharmacy...

Arianne Eason - Professor, Psychology

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

If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at ucdreamslabmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "UC DREAMS Lab Fall 2025 Research Assistant Interest". Special instructions for this project: Please upload a pdf of your resume to a google form for which you will receive the...

Arianne Eason - Professor, Psychology

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

If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at ucdreamslabmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "UC DREAMS Lab Fall 2025 Research Assistant Interest". Special instructions for this project: Please upload a pdf of your resume to a google form for which you will receive the...

Robert Edelstein - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

URAP participants are expected to work between 9 and 12 hours per week (pursuant to the mutually agreed upon contract between the student and Professor Edelstein). Usually, the URAP team will meet with Professor Edelstein on an as needed basis to discuss assignments, provide findings as well as interact about...

Ofer Eldar - Professor, Law

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

I am seeking a Research Assistant to support a law and finance project under my supervision at Berkeley Law. The work will involve scraping and analyzing corporate filings from the SEC website. The position requires strong proficiency in Python, including web scraping and data processing, and experience with large language...

Jan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology

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

To apply, please fill out this Google form: https://forms.gle/hcSRC3KKoLkLJyWv5 We address questions about the evolution and development of socio-cognitive skills by comparing humans to other animals (mostly chimpanzees, our closest living relatives) and by studying how children develop. How do children reason? How strongly is reasoning embedded...

Ellen Evers - Professor, Marketing

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

Our lab's research combines cognitive/social psychology, behavioral economics, and judgment and decision making research. Most of our research involves carrying out online or in-person experiments designed to test a hypothesis about human decision-making. Accepted students will work on a variety of projects within this area. Attendance at...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This is an opportunity to work on technical projects involving ML/AI. The projects include: (i) working with a large dataset of over 400 million employment profiles (resumes) in order to understand global employment dynamics and firm performance by structuring and analyze the large textual data; (ii) building custom large...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This project supports Professor Anastassia Fedyk’s research and policy work with web development and graphic design. The project involves maintaining and improving policy-related web resources such as Econ4UA.org, as well as designing and running experimental RCTs and surveys (sometimes involving new websites, sometimes executing simple Qualtrics surveys). Finally, the...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This project assists in Professor Fedyk's more practical research, including not only her research papers but also frequent media interviews and the op-eds she writes for outlets such as Washington Post and LA Times. Example topics covered in this project include: Macroeconomic policies in the US and abroad; Measuring...

Anastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

This project focuses on data: hand-collecting new data, improving existing data, and structuring large messy data. Today, very large data sets are often at the heart of many social science research questions. However, those data sets can be plagued by big data problems: missing data, bad data, duplicate data...

Dennis Feehan - Professor, Demography

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

Big historical datasets have set off an exciting wave of discoveries throughout the social sciences. These datasets have hundreds of millions of rows with rich information about historical populations, such as the complete set of responses to the 1940 US census and the record of all Social Security enrollments. They...

Lia Fernald - Professor, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Around one third of young children in Latin America co-reside with a grandparent. Unlike other regions, intergenerational cohabitation has remained common even with increasing economic prosperity. Grandparents may provide additional care for children with time or financial resources, yet they may also be a burden on parents if the...

Lia Fernald - Professor, Public Health

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

Over 250 million children under five years in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been estimated to be at risk of poor development, accounting for 43% of young children living in those countries (Lu et al., 2016). There are many reasons that children are at risk for poor development...

Lia Fernald - Professor, Public Health

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

Numerous studies have shown that early childhood development (ECD) interventions, including psychosocial stimulation, are effective in promoting disadvantaged children’s short-term cognitive and socioemotional outcomes, as well as their long-term educational attainment, earnings, and health. One proposed strategy for “scaling up” these interventions to achieve greater coverage in LMICs...

Lia Fernald - Professor, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Background: Every seven minutes a woman is a victim of domestic violence in Brazil. Research on intimate partner violence shows that victimization is not an isolated incident. Because of the repetition of abuse, it’s possible that some women seek assistance from multiple sectors over the course of their victimization. Other...

Meredith Fowlie - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

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

As global temperatures rise, more and more people are being exposed to extreme heat. Coping with heat-related risks is particularly stressful for households with limited access to cooling technologies such as fans and air conditioners. We have been working in India where it's estimated that over 300...

Meredith Fowlie - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

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

As the climate changes, households are increasingly exposed to both physical and financial risks. From a homeowner’s perspective, one of the clearest manifestations of this shift is the rising cost of property insurance in high-hazard areas. Insurance premium increases can convey important information about risk exposure and create incentives...

Emma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

OSKI Tech is a program that introduces new technology to a range of students. It is designed to work as a portable technology instruction lab, with a focus on expanding participation in technology for students in media studies, new media, arts and social sciences. The core of OSKI Tech is...

Emma Fraser - Professor, New Media, Center for

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

Choosing your Major” is a Digital game competition aimed at undergraduate clubs and students with experience in making games, which will be launched this Fall. We are seeking two URAP students to help support the pedagogical and student-centered aspects of this project. The project is driven by a dedicated...

Mia Fuller - Professor, Institute of European Studies

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This is the ideal URAP for students interested in a career in international diplomacy and/or foreign affairs. The Institute of European Studies seeks to enrich America's understanding of Europe -- its people, culture, languages, and politics -- through the generation and dissemination of distinguished scholarship. As the University's focal point for...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

AI technology and AI tools will change the healthcare landscape. The purpose of this project is two-fold. First, the project aims to understand AI technology's impact on the broader economy coupled with a focus on healthcare, including diagnostics, treatments, drug development and workflow processes. Second, the project...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

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

Healthcare providers and insurers have consolidated in the past decade, leading to higher prices without a commensurate increase in quality. The study will extend the evidence base on the effects of healthcare consolidation, including understanding the impacts of hospital-to-hospital affiliations and the impacts of private equity firms acquiring...

Brent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health

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

In the United States, government spending on programs (excluding health programs) targeting low-income populations total about $450 billion per year, whereas personal savings in the U.S. totals about $1 trillion per year. Hence, the potential for private investment to improve equity is significant, but would be the rate of...

Lupe Gallegos-Diaz - Lecturer, Chicanx Latinx Academic Student Development Office

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

This project will be researching the various roles that Chicanxs and Latinxs alumni have played on the UC Berkeley campus. The research project will uplift, highlight and recognize 1) Chicanx Latinx alumni 2) their various intersectional identities focusing on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, class and regionality 3)and generational...

Paul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School

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

Passionated and interested applied econometrics, statistics, data analysis, and economic development ? Join us. *** Project 1: Hard and Soft Skills for Youth in Uganda 4y and 9y follow-ups*** Data has been collected, now we study the medium and long term impacts (4y and 9y) of two exciting youth entrepreneurship and...