PhD Scholars

Austin Zheng is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Harvard economics department. His research interests include inequality, intergenerational mobility, and housing markets.

Maria Luisa Zeta is a PhD student in Education Policy studying inequality in educational opportunity. Her research focuses on post-secondary access, persistence and returns for low-income students and underrepresented minorities, and on how policy can...

I am a PhD student in economics at Harvard University. My research lies at the intersection of labor economics, public economics, and the economics of AI. Currently, I am most interested in the effects of AI on labor market outcomes and inequality. Prior...

Zehua Li is a Ph.D. student in Government and Social Policy. He studies American politics, with a focus on political discourse in local politics as well as how it affects education and housing policy. Zehua holds a B.S. in computer science with highest...

Alexandra Gibbons is a PhD student in Sociology. She uses demographic and computational methods to examine the relationship between incarceration and inequality in the United States. She is particularly interested in variation within categories often...

Forster-Benson's research investigates how various economic institutions exacerbate and mitigate inequality, with a particular focus on housing.

Marysol Fernández Harvey is a Ph.D. student in Government and Social Policy at Harvard University. Her research examines organizing and collective action as means for building durable civic power. She is particularly interested in how locally embedded...

Audrey Feldman is a PhD student in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School on the Judgement and Decision-Making track. She works on questions of civic health using behavioral and experimental methods. As a research fellow at The People Lab, she...

Eliana Buckner graduated from Northwestern University in 2021 with a BA in Economics. Her undergraduate honors thesis examined the impact of Medicaid Managed Care health insurance plan mergers on plan quality and market concentration. After graduating...

Francisca Afantchao Biakou is a PhD student in sociology and social policy, and a Presidential Scholar at Harvard University. Using theory, historical, and quantitative methods, she locates reproductive and domestic labor in larger social processes like...