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Income Dynamics Lab

Raj Arunachalam and I created the Income Dynamics Lab in 2012 to study household income and other outcomes over the long run. After I left Michigan the main branch of the lab moved to U.C. Santa Cruz. The lab creates and analyzes data to understand long-run growth, political corruption, and why poor countries are poor.

Research in Progress

Current Projects
  • Measuring and Transferring Retail Productivity (with Heather Huntington and Brenda Samaniego de la Parra)
  • The Cost of Political Misallocation: The Case of Electricity in India
Past Projects/Papers

Research Teams

Winter 2023
  • Janet Flores
  • Max Landesz
  • Skyler Scheetz
Fall 2022
  • Janet Flores
  • Max Landesz
Summer 2022
  • Janet Flores
  • Max Landesz
  • Cheryl Wu
  • Kayla Zheng

From left to right: Kayla, Janet, Ajay, Cheryl

Spring 2022
  • Janet Flores
  • Max Landesz
  • Kayla Zheng
Winter 2022
  • Janet Flores
  • Max Landesz
  • Kayla Zheng

From left to right: Max, Ajay, Kayla, Janet

Summer 2021
  • Alexandra Nava
  • Kaylee Garcia
  • Cheryl Wu
Spring 2021
  • Alexandra Nava
  • Kaylee Garcia
  • Yiyun Zheng
Winter 2021
  • Alexandra Nava
  • Kaylee Garcia
  • Kabir Kapur
  • Yiyun Zheng
Fall 2020
  • Alexandra Nava
  • Kaylee Garcia
  • Kabir Kapur
Summer 2020
  • Alexandra Nava
  • Kaylee Garcia
  • Kabir Kapur
Spring 2020
  • Oliver Nystroem
  • Neharika Salhotra
  • Kabir Kapur
  • Kate Woodcraft
  • Yiyun Zheng
Winter 2020
  • Oliver Nystroem
  • Kabir Kapur
  • Kenneth Perera
  • Kate Woodcraft
  • Yiyun Zheng
Fall 2019
  • Eric Flores
  • Kabir Kapur
  • Kenneth Perera
  • Kate Woodcraft
  • Yiyun Zheng

From left to right: Yiyun, Kabir, Kenneth, Kate

Summer 2019
  • Eric Flores
  • Kabir Kapur
  • Kenneth Perera
  • Kate Woodcraft
Spring 2019
  • Eric Flores
  • Jeannette Hooke
  • Kate Woodcraft
  • Yiyun Zheng

From left to right: Yiyun, Eric, Ajay, Jeannette, Kate

Fall 2018-Winter 2019
  • Shihui Feng
  • Eric Flores
  • Felicia Gee
  • Qi Hua
  • Asher Mccormick
  • Daniel Perez
  • Edward Tian
Spring 2018
  • Tony Evans
  • Ayushi Parmar
  • Daniel Perez
  • Jett Pettus

From left to right: Jett, Ayushi, Daniel


From left to right: Gianluca, Anuja, Jett


From left to right: Marissa, Anuja, Gianluca, Vivienne, Cyrus, Ravija, Jett

Fall 2017 to Winter, 2018
  • Ravija Amlani
  • Gianluca Caspietra
  • Anuja Patel
  • Jett Pettus
Winter to Spring 2017
  • Ravija Amlani
  • Gianluca Caspietra
  • Vivienne Chen
  • Cyrus Farsoudi
  • Marissa Lee
  • Anuja Patel
  • Jett Pettus
Fall to Spring, 2015-2016 Team Hack:
  • Coordinators: Benjamin Ewing, Christina Louie
  • Gianluca Casapietra
  • Minsu O
  • Alexander Ou
  • Ran Xu
Team _merge:
  • Coordinator: Afroviti ``Jessica'' Demolli
  • Emily Buczko
  • Samantha Hamilton
  • Nicole Kinney
  • Iason ``Jason'' Kleideris
  • Lindsey Newman
  • Erica Pohler-Chapman
  • Abir Rashid
  • Auralee Walmer
  • Christina Wong

From left to right: Aura, Ajay, Alex, Ran, Ben, Lindsey, Afroviti, Nicole [Christina L. took the photo]

Summer 2015
  • Emma Castanedo
  • Benjamin Ewing
  • Dixuan Feng
  • Christina Louie
  • Rashmi Nandagudi
  • Alexander Ou
  • Ran Xu
Spring 2015
  • Dar Bareket-Shavit
  • Afroviti ``Jessica'' Demolli
  • Benjamin Ewing
  • Christina Louie
  • Manon Ozanne
  • Auralee Walmer
  • Christina Wong
Winter 2015
  • Santa Cruz Branch
    • Afroviti ``Jessica'' Demolli
    • Benjamin Ewing
    • James Lamb
    • Manon Ozanne
    • Kevin Troxell
    • Matthew Krupoff


  • Ann Arbor Branch
    Lab Managers: Gaurav Khanna, Alexander Persuad
    • Becca Liebschutz
    • Boshen Wu
    • Eric Smith
    • Jay Woods
    • Jeff Bumbales
    • Jing Ping
    • Matthew Pesavento
    • Rami Krispin
    • Roman Klimke
    • Varsha Swamy
    • Wei-Chen Huang
    • Yida Li
    • Yunxuan Wang
    • Zoha Momin

Fall 2014
  • Benjamin Ewing
  • Franchesca Finnigan
  • James Lamb
  • Jocelin Padilla
  • Kevin Troxell
  • Matthew Krupoff
Spring/Summer 2014
  • Bohan Huang
  • Boshen Wu
  • Eric Kinnaman
  • Eric Smith
  • Kun Yu
  • Matthew Johnston
  • Pritam Mishra
  • Runyu (Renee) Gu
  • Zijiang Yang
Fall 2013-Winter 2014
  • Tyler Belyea
  • Loritta Chan
  • Kyutae Cho
  • Adam Davidson
  • Kayla Gawlik
  • Jessica Goodman
  • Nina Lu
  • Max Miller
  • Xuequan (Elsie) Peng
  • Max Salvatore
  • Valerie Schroder
  • Cindy Xi
Spring/Summer 2013
  • Ron Amchin
  • Tyler Belyea
  • Seungmin "Min" Lee
  • Jia De "Gedeon" Lim
  • Asra Najam (Federal Trade Commission)
  • Xuequan "Elsie" Peng
  • Shalini Subbiah


From left to right: Raj, Nikhil (down below), Elsie, Linfeng, Leah, Kayla, Tyler, Min


From left to right: Raj, Elsie, Asra, Ron, Linfeng, Ajay, Tyler, Alexander

Fall 2012-Winter 2013
  • Alex Hill
  • Martha Johnson
  • Jun Jie "Eugene" Tan (PhD Program, Duke)
  • Wenwen Ying

From left to right: Martha, Shalini, Eugene, Raj, Ajay

Winter 2012
  • Charles "Bill" Coop
  • Hugo Le Du
  • Nana Kikuchi
















Last Updated: 25 February 2023