Lecture Title: Experimental Approaches to Measuring Labor Market Discrimination
Lecture Date: February 17, 2025 10:30 am
Lecture Location: Seminar Room 903/904, 55 Park Place NE
Affiliated Institution:
University of California, Berkeley
Education:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A., University of Virginia
Specializations:
Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Applied Econometrics
Christopher Walters
2024 W.J. Usery Lecturer
Biography
Christopher Walters is a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Berkley faculty in 2013 after completing a Ph.D. in economics at MIT. Walters is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a faculty affiliate at the MIT Blueprint Labs, an affiliate of J-PAL North America, a research fellow at IZA, and an Amazon Scholar. His research focuses on the topics in labor economics and the economics of education, including early childhood programs, school effectiveness, and labor market discrimination. He is the co-editor of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
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