Our PhD in Public Policy (PPOL) doctoral students are registered at the (Harvard Griffin GSAS) and delve into a range of research areas during their time at Harvard.
Our current PPOL students and their areas of interest are listed below.
Aishani Aetresh
Science, Technology and Society (STS).
Development economics and political economy.
Francesca Arruda de Amaral
Criminal organizations, spatial analysis of crime, computational social science, comparative criminology.
Sachet Bangia
Development economics, industrial organization, and labor economics.
Anwesha Bhattacharya
Development economics and political economy with a focus on gender and governance.
Labor economics (gender), development economics (social norms, inequality).
David Bodovski
Labor economics, educational and social policy, economics history.
Science, Technology and Society (STS); critical legal studies; law and political economy; digital technology.
Patton Chen
Economics of crime, law and economics, and political economy.
Sarah Chen
Judgment and decision making and social psychology with a particular interest in emotions, health/medical decision making, and behavioral policies.
Tianlan Chen
Bureaucratic politics, authoritarian politics, political economy of development, quantitative methods.
Algorithmic fairness, discrimination, and computational social science.
Alice Danon
Labor economics, economics of education, and behavioral economics.
Pedro de Souza Ferreira
Development economics, labor economics, political economy.
The empirics of law and judicial politics.
Audrey Feldman
Policy implementation, trust and delivery of government services, and early childhood education.
Development and health economics with a focus on nutrition and WASH in developing countries, and the relationship between discrimination/identity and health behaviors and outcomes.
Jun Gao
Environmental economics and urban and spatial economics with a focus on the distributional and efficiency consequences of environmental policy.
Labor economics, behavioral science, and machine learning.
Sara Gong
Applied microeconomics, particularly topics related to inequality, American politics, and the media.
Joshua Henderson
U.S.-China relations; international relations; foreign policy; security studies; bureaucratic politics.
Calvin Isley
Economic and social impacts of artificial intelligence; algorithmic fairness, bias, and trust; social media; political polarization.
Public and labor economics with a focus on intergenerational mobility, social capital, and low-income housing.
Applied microeconomics with a focus on labor, health, and wellbeing.
Minsoo Kang
Political economy, international trade, industrial policy.
Health economics, prescription drugs, industrial organization, public economics, opioid crisis, applied microeconomics, consumer/household finance, social insurance, data science.
jack keating
International relations, security studies, political violence.
Climate adaptation, indirect effects of climate policy.
Laura-Thorne Kincaide
Applied microeconomics, political economy, and labor economics.
Education, migration and economic development; political economy and state capacity in developing countries; urban and regional economics.
Political economy of social movements and collective action. Representation of women and minorities in the economy and the public sphere.
Irene Lee
Judgement and decision-making, risk communication, emotions.
Lou Lennad
Science and technology studies, bioethics governance, and policy analysis with a current focus on human genetics and neuroscience.
Workforce dynamics (social capital, occupational change, technology), antitrust and monopsony power, regional/spatial economics.
Michelle Li
Applied microeconomics, environmental economics, urban economics.
Paichen Li
Energy/resource/environmental economics, public economics, and industrial organization, particularly how government programs can help to build efficiency and resilience in the electricity market (production, transmission, distribution, and consumption) and enhance reliability, affordability, and sustainability of power supply.
Sylvia Lin
Health care operations research, stochastic decision making, and operations management.
Trade, labor economics, and development.
Analyzing and addressing the drivers of inequality and discrimination faced by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities using tools from labor economics, public economics, and industrial organization.
Conor McGlynn
Science and Technology Studies (STS), standard setting, and AI governance.
Joseph Melkonian
Development economics and immigration.
Grace Michel
Development economics and industrial organization with a focus on the role of firms in developing economies.
Sho miyazaki
Political economy, legislative redistricting, liquid democracy, quantitative methodologies.
Labor economics, political economy, economic history.
Sivan Myers
Behavioral economics, judgement and decision-making, technology policy, social media and misinformation.
Summiya Najam
Development and behavioral economics.
Political violence, civil wars, political methodologies.
Yousra Neberai
Development, health, and environmental economics.
Khadidja Ngom
Environmental and energy economics, development economics.
Karen Ni
Labor and education economics with particular interest in policy interventions to reduce gender and racial inequalities in higher education.
Seokmin Oh
Labor and public economics.
Germán David Orbegozo-RodrÃguez
Behavioral economics, political economy and development.
Pariroo Rattan
Political economy of development and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
John Reynolds
American politics, civil service, public leadership, ethics in government.
Francesca Rinaldi
Economics of education and gender.
Asa Royal
Applied microeconomics, especially media economics and labor economics.
Solange Melissa Severino de Oliveira
Gender-based violence, criminal governance, penal populism, political economy, and comparative politics.
Behavioral economics, political behavior, and behavioral public policy. Interested in political and economic beliefs.
Erica Sprott
Environmental regulation, climate change, renewable energy, auction design, housing, transportation, urban planning, public choice.
Development economics, labor economics, and political economy.
Joshua Stinson
Complex social systems, systems dynamics, organizational behavior, organizational change, decision science, data science, international relations, warfare, decision making, risk assessment, strategic empathy, collective decision making, emotion and decision making, strategic judgement, forecasting, investing, and approaches to radical uncertainty.
Chloe Tanaka
Environmental/natural resource economics, labor economics, applied microeconomics, and sustainable development.
Katie Tucker
Homeland security and international conflict, specifically as it relates to terrorism and nuclear weapons.
Dilan Tulan
Judgment and decision making, conflict and collaboration, interpersonal relations, psychology of technology.
Jessica Van Meir
Comparative politics and sociology with a regional focus on Latin America. Interested in informal labor, urban politics, social movements, and gender and sexuality.
Development, behavioral, and labor economics, particularly in the context of education and the psychology of poverty.
Eric Wert
Public and labor economics.
Joe Winkelmann
Economics of inequality, education, and labor markets.
Justin Wong
Science, Technology and Policy Studies (STS), critical legal studies, global ordering and politics.
Yixian Xu
Organizational behavior, artificial intelligence, judgment and decision making.
Duo Yi
Foreign policy and strategic narratives in geopolitics, with a focus on China and U.S.–China relations.
Katie Zhang
Environmental, urban, and development economics.
Tracy Zhou
Environmental and natural resource economics, economic history, health economics, food systems.