Research interests: Economist. Causes and consequences of poverty in the US; racial bias in the criminal justice system; the labor market consequences of bad credit reports; and the long-run effects of charter schools.
Assistant Professor of Economics...
Research interests: Empirical law and economics, particularly in the areas of criminal justice and consumer bankruptcy.
Olin Fellow and Instructor of Law, University of Chicago Law School, 2013-2014.
Winner John M. Olin Prize for best paper in law and...
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, 2013-2016.
Miya Woolfalk leads a team of research managers and analysts who design, implement and analyze research projects on a wide range of topics. Her substantive expertise and primary...
Congressional Fellow, American Sociological Association, 2013-2014.
Global Fellow, The Mexico Institute, 2016-present.
Fellow, The Wilson Center for International Scholars, 2015-2016.
CEO of México ¿Cómo vamos?, a Mexican think tank that studies economic development, 2014-2015.
Selected as a Young Global Leader 2020 by...
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago Crime Lab, 2013-2017.
Winner of the first annual Economics of Crime prize at the 6th Economics of Crime Transatlantic Workshop at Bocconi University in Milan, 2014.
Named a Greenwall Faculty Scholar, a career development award to enable junior facuolty to carry out innovative bioethics research. The Greenwall Foundation, 2017.
Amanda Garrett's PhD dissertation, When Cities Fight Back: Minorities, Local Politics and Conflict, received the Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in European politics from the American Political Science Association's...
Bernard Fraga's first book, The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America, examines the causes and consequences of racial/ethnic disparities in voter turnout. Cambridge University Press (2018).
Winner of the...