Principal Investigators

Dr. Réka Juhász
Assistant Professor, Economics
University of British Columbia

Prior to UBC, Dr. Juhász was an economics professor at Columbia University. Previously, she was postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. She holds affiliations with the NBER and CEPR.

Contacts: Webpage and Email

Dr. Nathan Lane
Associate Professor, Economics
University of Oxford

Prior to Oxford, Dr. Lane was an economics professor at Monash University where he was cofounder of SodaLabs.io. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the Roosevelt Institute.

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Board of Advisors

Nancy Gallini

Professor Emeritus

Vancouver School of Economics

The University of British Columbia

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Ann E. Harrison

Dean and Bank of America Chair

Haas School of Business

University of California, Berkeley

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Dani Rodrik

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy

John F. Kennedy School of Government

Harvard University

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Henry Siu

Professor

Vancouver School of Economics

The University of British Columbia

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Research Team

Verónica Pérez
Lab Manager/Co-Author

PhD Student in Economics at Boston University. Previously, she was a Predoctoral Fellow at Columbia University, and a Graduate Research Assistant at Universidad de los Andes, where she earned her BSc and MA in economics.

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Emily Oehlsen
PhD Student/Co-Author

PhD Student in Economics at the University of Oxford and Senior Program Officer at Open Philanthropy. Previously, she worked at DeepMind, Uber, and TGG Group. She has a BSFS in International Political Economy from Georgetown University and an MPhil in Economics from Oxford.

Max Marczinek
PhD Student/Co-Author

PhD student in Economics at the University of Oxford, working on Trade, Development, and Economic History

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Esha Vaze
Research Assistant

Esha is a Bachelor of International Economics student at the University of British Columbia. Previously she worked as a research assistant at Krea University and the Delhi School of Economics.

Pablo Valenzuela C
PhD Student

Pablo is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at The University of British Columbia. He is interested in urban economics and its intersection with race and immigration. He holds a BA in business and economics and MA in economics from PUC-Chile.

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Dilan Yang
MPhil Student/Co-Author

Dilan (also goes by Kristen) is an MPhil in Economics student at Oxford. She holds a BA in Economics from University of Cambridge, and a Masters in Global Affairs from Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, China.

Giulia Lo Forte
PhD Student/Co-Author

Giulia is a PhD candidate in economics at The University of British Columbia. Her research interests lie in International Trade, Innovation, and Spatial Economics with a particular focus on product innovation and the diffusion of intangible capital.

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Lottie Field
Research Assistant

Lottie is studying for an MSc in Economics for Development at the University of Oxford, where she gained her BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Her current research focuses on the political economy of industrial policy.

Mikhael Gaster
Research Assistant

Mikhael [mi: kaI: jɛl] holds a MA in Economics and a BA in Economics & Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. He also works as a Data Science Research Fellow at the Jain Family Institute.

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Saumya Joshi
Research Assistant

PhD student in Food and Resource Economics, University of British Columbia, working on land markets and structural transformation in developing countries.

Aswin Chansrichawla
Research Assistant

Aswin (also goes by Gian) is an MPhil student in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford. He holds a BA in International Development from King's College London. His primary research interests are industrial policy and economic development in Thailand.