Our Students
We feature a unique PhD program that allows students to be advised, mentored and funded by Brooks faculty whether the student is pursuing a PhD in Public Policy, Economics, or Sociology. Here is information about Brooks-funded PhD students in each of these areas:
PhD Students in the Field of Public Policy
Research interests: labor economics, incarceration, policing, poverty
Research interests: health economics and labor economics
Research interests: local government, political participation, and comparative politics
Research interests: policy analysis, social policy and inequality, political behavior, public opinion, racial and ethnic politics
Research interests: health economics, behavioral economics, and environmental economics
Research interests: applied microeconomics, development, behavioral and labor
Research interests: education, consumer finance and public economics
Research interests: urban and real estate economics
Research interests: health economics, labor economics, public economics, and industrial organization
Research interests: inequality, labor economics, health economics
Research interests: understanding the impacts of settler colonialism on immigration law and policy, social inequality in the legal system, and the decision-making practices of immigration judges.
Research interests: applied microeconomics with applications to environmental and health policy
Research interests: applied microeconomics, labor, crime, and education
Research interests: demography, disabilities policies, health inequality, evaluation
Research Interests: international development economics, health economics and policy
Research interests: education, immigration, family, labor economics
Research areas: health economics
Research interests: behavioral science, data science, and public policy
Research interests: emerging technology, national security, international politics
Research interests: labor economics, information science, educational interventions
Research interests: inequality, gender, and behavioral economics
Research interests: health inequality, family demography
Research interests: social inequity; family and youth policy; foster care and homelessness; mixed methods
Research Interests: applied econometrics with applications to labor, immigration, and criminal justice policy
Research interests: poverty, safety net programs
Research interests: labor economics, economics of education (higher education), social policy
Research interests: health policy, regulatory policy, american politics
Public Policy-based PhD Students in the Field of Economics
Research interests: household finance, wealth inequality, financial literacy
Research interests: inequality, occupational choice, and labor policy
Research interests: labor economics, public economics, policing & crime, industrial organization
Research interests: poverty, safety net programs, low-wage labor market
Research interests: health economics, health policy, aging, subjective well-being
Research interests: labor economics, applied econometrics
Research interests: inequality, education, microeconomics, labor economics, behavioral economics
Research interests: health economics and industrial organization
Public Policy-based PhD Students in the Field of Sociology
Research interests: social stratification
Research interests: demography, inequality, spatial analysis, quantitative methods, health and aging
Research interests: social determinants of health/health inequities
Research interests: poverty and inequality, gender, race and ethnicity