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
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
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