James Joseph Heckman is an American economist and Nobel laureate who serves as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago,where he is also a professor at the College,a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy,Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD),and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group. He is also a professor of law at the Law School,a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation,and a research associate at the NBER. He received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1983,and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2000,which he shared with Daniel McFadden. He is known principally for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics.
The Walter A. Haas School of Business is the business school of the University of California,Berkeley,a public research university in Berkeley,California. It was the first business school at a public university in the United States.
David Edward Card is a Canadian-American labour economist and the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California,Berkeley,where he has been since 1997. He was awarded half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirical contributions to labour economics",with Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens jointly awarded the other half.
David John Teece is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California,Berkeley.
Gordon Rausser is an American economist. He is currently the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor Emeritus,Dean Emeritus,at Rausser College of Natural Resources and more recently,a professor of the graduate school at the University of California,Berkeley. On three separate occasions,he served as chairman of the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics,served two terms as Dean of the Rausser College of Natural Resources,and has served on the board of trustees of public universities and one private university. Rausser has been appointed to more than 20 board of directors of both private and publicly traded companies,including chairman of several of such boards.
David Sparks Evans is an American economist specializing in antitrust and two-sided markets. He is the chairman of Global Economics,Inc.,and founding editor of Competition Policy International. He teaches at the University College London,where he is the co-executive director of the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics,and at the University of Chicago Law School.
The School of Social Welfare of the University of California,Berkeley,was established June 1,1944 and is located in Haviland Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Its focus is to prepare graduates to become agents of social change through direct practice,agency management,policymaking,and leading new discoveries that address the grand challenges confronting society. Berkeley Social Welfare offers the Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare through the College of Letters and Science (L&S),the M.S.W.,and the Ph.D. Haviland Hall includes its own library,The Social Research Library,which was founded in 1957 and contains approximately 34,400 volumes and 200 active serial titles. The library originally housed volumes specifically for the social work field and expanded in 2014 to include education,psychology,public policy. The library also maintains an Indigenous Social Work space.
Aaron S. Edlin is an American economist and lawyer specializing in antitrust and competition policy. In 1997–1998,he served in the Clinton White House as Senior Economist within the Council of Economic Advisers focusing on the areas of industrial organization,regulation and antitrust. In 1999,he co-founded the Berkeley Electronic Press,an electronic publishing company that assists with scholarly communication.
The Health Initiative of the Americas is a Latino program focusing mainly on migrant and immigrant health issues. It is part of the School of Public Health at the University of California,Berkeley (UCB).
The University of California,Berkeley School of Law is the law school of the University of California,Berkeley. The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years,although it was never the official name. This came from its initial building,the Boalt Memorial Hall of Law,named for John Henry Boalt. This name was transferred to an entirely new law school building in 1951 but was removed in 2020.
Nicholas Economides is an internationally recognized academic authority on network economics,electronic commerce and public policy. His fields of specialization and research include the economics of networks,especially of telecommunications,computers,and information,the economics of technical compatibility and standardization,industrial organization,the structure and organization of financial markets and payment systems,antitrust,application of public policy to network industries,strategic analysis of markets and law and economics.
The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA),earlier known as the Center of Evaluation for Global Action,is a research network based at the University of California that advances global health and development through impact evaluation and economic analysis. The Center's researchers use randomized controlled trials and other rigorous forms of evaluation to promote sustainable social and economic development around the world.
Edward "Ted" Andrew Miguel is an American development economist currently serving as the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California,Berkeley. He is the founder and faculty director of the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA),a Berkeley-based hub for research on development economics.
Joe Staten Bain was an American economist associated with the University of California,Berkeley. Bain was designated a Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association in 1982. An accompanying statement referred to him as "the undisputed father of modern Industrial Organization Economics."
Suzanne Scotchmer was an American professor of law,economics and public policy at the University of California,Berkeley,and a noted author on many economic subjects. She earned her B.A. from University of Washington magna cum laude in 1970,her M.A. in statistics from UC Berkeley in 1979,and her PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 1980.
Seth M. Holmes is Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Science,Policy and Management and Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. He also serves as founder and co-chair of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine,co-director of the MD/Ph.D. Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UCSF. A cultural anthropologist and physician,Holmes focuses on social inequalities,immigration,ethnic hierarchies,health and health care. His work has provided a particularly strong ethnographic critique of behaviorism in medicine.
Clair Brown is an American economist who is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work,Technology,and Society at the University of California,Berkeley. Brown is a past Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IRLE) at UC Berkeley. Brown has published research on many aspects of how economies function,including high-tech industries,development engineering,the standard of living,wage determination,poverty,and unemployment.
Stephen P. Hinshaw is an American psychologist whose contributions lie in the areas of developmental psychopathology and combating the stigma that surrounds mental illness. He has authored more than 325 scientific articles and chapters as well as 14 authored and edited books. Currently,he is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California,Berkeley,and Professor In Residence and Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California,San Francisco. His work focuses on child and adolescent mental disorders,clinical interventions,mechanisms of change in psychopathology,and stigma prevention efforts,with a specialization in ADHD and other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Richard J. Gilbert is an American Economist,professor at UC Berkeley from 1976 to 2000,and founder of LECG Corp.. Richard ('Rich') Gilbert served as Deputy Assistant General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in the White House from 1993 to 1995,and author of Innovation Matters:Competition Policy for the Knowledge Economy,published by M.I.T. Press. While serving for the United States Justice Department,Richard Gilbert led the development of Joint Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. Currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley,Richard Gilbert was president of the Industrial Organization Society at University of California,Berkeley during his tenure and from 2002 to 2005 the Chair of the Economics department there. Professor Gilbert has taken special interest in Innovation,Organizational behavior,and Energy economics. Richard J. Gilbert now works as Emeritus from the University,as a consultant for Compass Lexecon and was on the Board of the East Bay College Fund Oakland Promise Association.
Manisha Shah is an American economist who is the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California,Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. She is a development economist whose primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of applied microeconomics,health,and development. She is an editor at the Journal of Health Economics and an associate editor at The Review of Economics and Statistics as well as a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research,a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor,and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
