Adam Bieda
Adam is a graduate with a double major in Economics and English. Through the NLC Menino Fellowship, Adam spent the fall semester paired with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson and Professor of Economics Robert Margo in an on-campus Directed Study program. He spent the 2019 spring semester in Boston University’s (BU) Washington, DC study abroad program, where […]
Elizabeth Champion
Read more about Elizabeth’s experience as the 2018 Greater Manchester Combined Authority Fellow Elizabeth Champion studied economics in the College of Arts and Science. Avid about the economics and history of cities, she hopes to eventually pursue her Masters in City Planning. Last fall, she worked as a Community Planning Intern for the City of […]
Bahar Erbas
Urban H Interests: Heat, Health Bahar Erbas teaches various courses at the undergraduate and master’s level, including Environmental Economics and Public Economics. She works on empirical topics related to environmental, resource and energy economics and public economics. Her research mainly focuses on environmental regulations and climate change. She has public sector experience at the US Department […]
James Feigenbaum
James Feigenbaum studies economic history, labor economics, and political economy. His research interests include inequality, intergenerational mobility, health and mortality, and labor markets in the 19th and early 20th century US, spanning cities during the Age of Mass Migration and the epidemiological transition to the postbellum South. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at […]
Vijay Fisch
Vijay (he/him) is a sophomore in the Faculty of Computing and Data Science (CDS) pursuing a BS in Data Science and a minor in economics. He has been attending IOC events since his freshman year at BU and is excited about the opportunity to get more involved. He enjoys exploring interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving around […]
Martin Fiszbein
Martin Fiszbein’s research seeks to understand comparative paths of development in historical perspective, drawing on new empirical approaches and conceptual insights from growth theory, development economics, regional/urban economics, political economy, social psychology, and evolutionary approaches. Adopting a long-run perspective, my papers underscore how “initial conditions” shaping economies early in their history may influence subsequent development […]
Juliahna Green
Read more about Juliahna’s experience as the 2018 Greater Manchester Combined Authority Fellow Juliahna Green studied economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. She interned at Roca, a local not-for-profit aimed at combating cyclical poverty. In the past, she has interned in three different departments at the City of Boston, most recently in Intergovernmental […]
Dhruv Kapadia
Dhruv Kapadia graduated with a dual degree in Political Science and Economics and minoring in Statistics at the College of Arts and Sciences. Dhruv is from Pennington, New Jersey and before coming to Boston, spearheaded a number of feats of activism centered around racial and religious justice in his hometown. Since arriving on campus, Dhruv […]
Chenyue Lei
Chenyue is a PhD candidate in the Economics department. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of macroeconomics, with a focus on dynamism, productivity and growth. Her recent work studies the survival of indebted zombie firms and credit misallocation in Europe during the sovereign debt crisis. Currently, she is exploring how various credit policies would […]
Ariana Lim
Ari (she/her) is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences pursuing a BA in economics and a minor in French from Harrington Park, New Jersey. She joined the IOC as a research assistant! As an economics major, I’m passionate about learning about behavioral economics, a combination of economics and psychology that helps to […]