Benjamin Marx

Benjamin Marx is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University. His research interests are mainly in political economy and development. One strand of his research studies the determinants of political accountability, state capacity, and voting behavior in developing countries. He has worked in various countries including Kenya, Senegal, and Uganda as […]

Yuhei Miyauchi

Yuhei Miyauchi’s primary research interest is to understand how socio-economic activity is shaped within cities and across regions. Yuhei tackles these questions using a combination of theory and new sources of granular data, such as cell phone, smartphone transaction data and firm-level transaction data. Visit Department of Economics Profile

Avi Nguyen

Read more about Avi’s experience as the Summer 2021 MORRE Fellow Avi Mguyen majored in Political Science and Economics. He is from Boston and grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood. He is involved with grassroots organizing within Dorchester and is passionate about voter registration and police reform. Avi has volunteered and worked with The City […]

Deep Patel

Read more about Deep’s experience as the 2021 Mayor’s Office of Policy & Planning Summer Fellow Deep Patel was in BU’s Kilachand Honors College and College of Arts and Sciences double majoring in Economics and Political Science. Born and raised in New York City, Deep’s interactions with his local and city level officials in the […]

An Pham

Read more about An’s experience as the Summer 2021 City of Chelsea Open Data & Digital Communications Fellow An Pham majored in Economics & Mathematics. Born in Cambridge, An’s family moved back to Vietnam until raising him and his little sister in Toronto, Canada. He took early interests in writing, coding, and history that eventually […]

An Pham

An is a junior majoring in Economics and Mathematics and is interested in inequality, environmental policy, and urban economics. He hopes to pursue a career in policy analysis, where he can work with city governments, activists, and other academics to make a difference. An’s directed study will focus on the history of Boston housing policy. […]

Talal Rahim

Talal Rahim, a PhD candidate in Economics at the BU College of Arts and Sciences, is fulfilling his Summer Fellowship with the City of Providence, RI. Rahim is serving as Mayor Jorge Elorza‘s Data Science Fellow where he will be focused on projects that include building an energy efficiency database and a property inspections database.

Maya Terhune

Read more about Maya’s experience as the 2017 Greater Manchester Combined Authority Summer Fellow Maya graduated from Boston University in 2018 with a degree in Economics and Mathematics. Before her fellowship with GMCA, she has previously interned for WGBH and WNET New York Public Media.

Linh T. Tô

Linh Tô is a labor economist with a focus on topics including gender inequality and methodology for empirical work. Her recent work combines methods ranging from quasi-experimental to structural and experimental to analyze preferences of workers, employers, and consumers, and their consequences for public policy. Pronounce Linh the same as the English word ling. Pronounce […]