Team

Project Director: Zachary Bleemer

Zachary Bleemer is the director of the University of California ClioMetric History Project and an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University. He is also a faculty associate of the Center for Studies in Higher Education at UC Berkeley and of Opportunity Insights. His research uses quasi-experimental research designs and longitudinal administrative data to study economic mobility, higher education, and the determinants of U.S. labor market outcomes.

Principal Investigator: John Douglass

John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow – Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at UC Berkeley. Current research interests are focused on comparative international higher education, including the influence of globalization, the role of universities in economic development, strategic issues related to developing mass higher education, and studies related the SERU Consortium survey data.

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Research Associate: Andrew Schwartz

Andrew Schwartz is an assistant professor of finance at Seton Hall University. Andrew’s research examines how students finance higher education, focusing on the student loan market and institutional financial aid allocations. He received his PhD in Finance from UC Berkeley in 2018.

Research Assistants:

David Bodovski, Yale University
Amelia Davidson, Yale University
Eve Grobman, Yale University
Aarjav Joshi, Yale University
Thomas Sweeney, Yale University

Previous Research Assistants¹:

Aslihan Akalin | MA in Computer Science, UC Berkeley
Akcan Balkir | RA, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (awarded Berkeley’s Schimbor Prize)
Margaret Chen | PhD in Economics, University of Chicago
Sahil Chinoy | PhD in Economics, Harvard University (awarded Berkeley’s Schimbor Prize)
Tomas Villena Concha | Analyst, Deloitte
Divya Dhar | Analyst, Nielsen
Matthew Forbes | MA in Public Policy, UCLA
Nicole Gandre | PhD in Economics, UC Berkeley
Crystal Guo | Master of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Joseph Hernandez | Analyst, Albourne Partners
Elizabeth Holland | Analyst, Mathematica Policy Research
Evey Huang | PhD in Computer Science, Northwestern
Yuri Jeon | Engineer, Epic
Hoyun Kim | PhD in Education, UC Berkeley
Marcus Wei Zhe Lee | Engineer, Amazon
Frankie Lin | PhD in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dan Ma | RA, Harvard University
Danny Miller | Marketing, Universal Music Group
Sakthi Ponnuswamy | Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
Diksha Radhakrishnan | Analyst, Cornerstone Research
Sowgandhi Rayapudi | Analyst, Facebook
Kendra Singh | MS In Data Science, NYU
Tiana Smith | Analyst, Adobe
Julie Song | Strategy, Ernst & Young
Jimmy Tran | Analyst, First Republic Bank
Mark Vandre | MA in Applied Economics, UCLA
Jiwook Yoo | PhD in Economics, Duke
Jae Ho Yoon