Doctoral Fellows

The Global Policy Laboratory hosts Doctoral Fellows working towards their PhD in any program at UC Berkeley. Fellows become members of the interdisciplinary and collaborative research community at GPL, contributing to and benefiting from an exciting and diverse intellectual environment.

Fellows participate in the community of the lab and have the opportunity to contribute to collaborative research projects. Fellows also participate in a structured mentorship program designed to support their development as effective researchers able to design, execute, and communicate impactful research in the global public interest.

• Selected Research by Doctoral Fellows

• Awards

• Current Doctoral Fellows

• Fellows in the media

• Alumni

New applications will be considered on a rolling basis, although interested applicants are strongly advised to apply by September 1 each year. Applicants should already be admitted to and attending (or have accepted admission to) a doctoral program at UC Berkeley. Applications from all departments are accepted. You must be logged in to your berkeley.edu account to access the application.

• Tamma Carleton, Andrew Hultgren: Valuing the global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits, NBER (2020)

• Sébastien Annan-Phan, Ian Bolliger, Hannah Druckenmiller, Andrew Hultgren, Luna Huang, Peiley Lau, Jaecheol Lee, Esther Rolf: The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic, Nature (2020)

• Felipe González: Collective Action in Networks: Evidence from the Chilean Student Movement J. of Public Economics (2020)

• Jonathan Proctor, Tamma Carleton: Evidence for Ultraviolet Radiation Decreasing COVID-19 Growth Rates: Global Estimates and Seasonal Implications SSRN (2020)

• Esther Rolf: Balancing Competing Objectives with Noisy Data: Score-Based Classifiers for Welfare-Aware Machine Learning, arXiv (2020)

• Ian Bolliger: Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress, NBER (2019)

• Gabriel Englander: Enforcing sovereign property rights reduces unauthorized fishing, Nature Sustainability (2019)

• Luna Huang: Using Randomized Controlled Trials to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics, Annual Review of Economics (2019)

• Jonathan Proctor: Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions, Nature (2018)

• Felipe González, Patrick Baylis: Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico, Nature Climate Change (2018)

• Hannah Druckenmiller: Accounting for Unobservable Heterogeneity in Cross Section Using Spatial First Differences, NBER (2018)

• Esther Rolf: Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (2018)

• Tamma Carleton: Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India, PNAS (2017)

• Tamma Carleton: Social and economic impacts of climate, Science (2016)

Previous awards and fellowships granted to our fellows include:

• Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)

• Fulbright Scholarship

• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

• The Harvard Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Harvard Center for the Environment Fellowship

• Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment Fellowship

• NOAA Sea Grant Fellowship

• Rutherford Foundation Fellowship

• Fisher Center Research for Urban Economics Grant

• Environmental Protection Agency Science to Achieve Results Fellowship

• Center for Korean Studies Grant

• Sidney Hoos Award For Best Second-Year Econometrics Paper

• NSF DS421 Fellowship

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

• UC Berkeley Graduate Fellowship

• UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship

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