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: economics of education, economics of crime, public economics

Research interests: economic insecurity, computational demography, social media and elections

Research interests: health economics, behavioral economics, and environmental economics

Research interests: health economics, social insurance, long-term care

Research interests: education, consumer finance and public economics

Research interests: health economics, labor economics, public economics, and industrial organization

Research interests: applied microeconomics with applications to environmental and health policy

Research interests: applied microeconomics, labor, crime, and education

Research interests: education, immigration, family, labor economics

Research areas: health economics

Research interests: behavioral science, data science, and public policy

Research interests: health economics, economics of crime, environmental regulation

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: public economics, health economics, development

Meredith Welch
Research interests: labor economics, economics of education (higher education), social policy
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: poverty, safety net programs, low-wage labor market

Research interests: public economics, labor economics, urban economics

Research interests: health economics, health policy, aging, subjective well-being

Research interests: education, health, Labor economics, development economics

Research interests: labor economics, public economics, family

Research interests: macroeconomics, labor economics, industry dynamics

Research interests: labor economics, public economics

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: social determinants of health/health inequities

Research interests: emotions and therapeutic culture, gender, intimate relationships, inequality

Research interests: poverty and inequality, gender, race and ethnicity