CLASS OF
COMMENCEMENT
MAY 15, 2021 Land Acknowledgement
We recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of Huichin (Hoo- Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo Ohlone, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Ohlone people. We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from the use and occupation of this land, since the institution’s founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university’s relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold University of California Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.
We know that many of you are spread throughout the world on the land of other peoples and would like to take the time to acknowledge that ancestral history as well.
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Commencement Program May 15, 2021
Welcome Professor David Card Chair, Department of Economics
Department Awards
Degree Candidates
In Memoriam
Hail to California Welcome
Dear 2021 graduates,
Congratulations on graduating from the best department of the best university in the world! Although we are not able to celebrate this important accomplishment and milestone with you in person, please know that every one of us in the Economics Department is proud of what you have accomplished and thrilled on your behalf.
Founded in 1868—just eighteen years after California became a state— the University of California, Berkeley is one of California’s gems. It has been the source of fundamental contributions to knowledge, a vital vehicle for the transmission of knowledge to generations of students from California and around the world, and an unparalleled driver of opportunity and upward mobility. And throughout its history, it has shown, over and over again, that nothing could be more wrong than the idea that there is a tradeoff between diversity and excellence. On the contrary, inclusion, diversity, and equity are crucial sources of excellence.
Founded in 1902, the Department of Economics is one of Berkeley’s gems. Its exceptional combination of extraordinary research—including five Nobel Prizes—outstanding teaching—including five winners of the campus Distinguished Teaching Award currently on the faculty—and the most talented, dedicated, and passionate students anywhere make it truly unique. You are now a part of this history of excellence as a new alum of the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley.
Congratulations, best wishes, and take care—and Go Bears!
David Card Chair, Department of Economics Graduate Awards
Eliot J. Swan Prize Yuki Ito
The Eliot J. Swan Prize is awarded for the best performance in the first year of the Ph.D. program. It includes a cash component to recognize the discipline and dedication of this achievement. Eliot J. Swan was a graduate student, teaching assistant and instructor in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley from 1932-1941. He then went on to a career at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, where he eventually served as President. He retired from the bank in 1972, after 31 years of service.
George Break Prize in Public Finance Kai Zen
The George Break Prize in Public Finance is awarded to a student with outstanding performance in the Public Finance field courses. The prize was established in honor of George Break, a leading figure in public finance and a professor in the Economics Department for 40 years.
Public Policy Research Award Nina Roussille
The Public Policy Prize is awarded to a student performing research in Economics relating directly to issues of Public Policy. Typical subjects include (but are not limited to) Public Finance, Regulation, Health, Transportation and Education. The decision is made by the faculty members who specialize in Public Policy.
Journal of Development Economics Award Christina Brown
The Journal of Development Economics Prize is awarded in recognition of outstanding work or research in Development Economics completed during the academic year. Its goal is to support students in their thesis writing. The decision is made by the faculty members who specialize in Development Economics. 2021 Outstanding GSI Award Recipients Joshua Archer Kevin Dano Sreeraahul Kancherla Maximiliano Lauletta Michael Love Carl McPherson Aditi Ramakrishnan Somara Sabharwal Sushil Viswanathan John Wieselthier Chaoran Yu Luke Zhang Yipei Zhang Undergraduate Awards
Steve Goldman Memorial Prize and Departmental Citation Lila Rose Englander
The Steve Goldman Memorial Prize and Departmental Citation is awarded to the top undergraduate student in recognition of outstanding achievement in the Department of Economics. The Goldman Prize Fund was established in memory of Professor Goldman, who joined the Berkeley faculty in 1966. He was a micro-theorist, devoted mentor to many students, and strong supporter of academic excellence.
Thomas E. Bowman Award Manasi Hardikar
The Thomas E. Bowman Prize for Student Support in Economics is awarded to the student who has demonstrated not only academic excellence, but has shown an oustanding committment to contributing to the department, the university, and the community. The award was established in honor of Thomas E. Bowman, who graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1947. The award is funded by the Better Business Bureau of Oakland, in honor of Tom’s many years of service.
Mark A. Schimbor Award Anthony Swaminathan
The Mark A. Schimbor Prize in Economics was established in 2012 in memory of Mark A. Schimbor, who passed away in 2012. Mark earned a degree in Economics with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. The Mark A. Schimbor Prize in Economics enables the Department to celebrate excellence in the study of Economics, making note of Mark’s legacy as an honors student, and recognizing the spirit in which the prize was established. The prize is awarded to the honors student that demonstrates not only academic excellence but also exemplary research abilities. The winner is selected by the Economics Undergraduate Committee based on the outstanding nature of their honors thesis. Ph.D. CANDIDATES
Jun Aoyagi “Essays on Information and Financial Markets” Dissertation Advisors: Professor Nicolae Garleanu and Professor David Sraer
ChaeWon Baek “Essays in Macroeconomics” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Zachary Bleemer “Essays in Labor Economics, Economic Mobility, and Higher Education” Dissertation Advisor: Professor David Card
Christina Brown “Essays on Personnel Economics in Developing Countries” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Supreet Kaur
Christopher Campos “Essays in the economics of education” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Christopher Walters
Isabelle Cohen “Essays on Public Finance and Development” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Fred Finan
Marc Dordal Carreras “Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy: Theory, Evidence and Policy Prescriptions” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman “Multi-establishment Firms, Pricing and the Propagation of Local Shocks: Evidence from US Retail” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Benjamin Faber
Jonathan Holmes “Essays on Health Insurance Policy” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Ben Handel
Junyi Hou “Essays in Development Economics and Political Economy” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Gerard Roland Peter Jones “Essays in Psychology and Economics” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Stefano DellaVigna
Caitlin Kearns “Essays on School Choice” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Jesse Rothstein
Caroline Le Pennec “The Determinants and the Effects of Campaign Communication in Competitive Elections” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Frederico Finan
Samuel Leone “Essays on Economic Development” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Frederico Finan
Peter McCrory “Essays in Macroeconomics” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Todd Messer “Financial Institutions and the Real Economy ... and a COVID-19 Shock” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Fengshi Niu “Essays in Econometrics” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Bryan S. Graham
Piyush Paritosh Panigrahi “Essays on Spatial Production Networks” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Andres Rodriguez-Clare
Farzad Pourbabaee “Essays in Venture capital, Reputation and Learning” Dissertation Advisors: Professor Robert M. Anderson and Professor Chris Shannon
Nina Roussille “Essays in labor economics” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Patrick Kline Maxime Sauzet “Essays on Asset Pricing, Portfolio Choice, and International Finance” Dissertation Advisor: Professor Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
Dong Wei “Essays in Dynamic Games and Information Economics” Dissertation Advisors: Professor Chris Shannon and Professor Philipp Strack
Alexandra Steiny Wellsjo “Essays in Psychology and Economics” Dissertation Advisors: Professor Stefano DellaVigna and Professor Ulrike Malmendier B.A. HONORS CANDIDATES
Zoya Ali “Gender Equality and Economic Growth: Solving the Asian Puzzle” Thesis Advisor: Professor Alan Auerbach
Sarah Baig “Time Dependence in Okun’s Law at the State Level” Thesis Advisor: Professor Raymond Hawkins
Vatsal Bajaj “Labor Regulation and the Impact on Firm-Level Efficiency in India” Thesis Advisor: Professor Nick Tsivanidis
Oyundari Batbayar “Gender Representation in Academia: Evidence from the Italian Education System Reform” Thesis Advisor: Professor Martha Olney
Andrei A Caprau “Reexamining Overreactions in the Stock Market” Thesis Advisor: Professor Stephen Bianchi
Matthew J Chang “Money & Marriage on the Elementary Mind -- A High-Level Analysis of Inequitable Child Development in LA County” Thesis Advisor: Professor David Levine
Cheng Chi “Unanticipated Unemployment Rate News on the Stock Market” Thesis Advisor: Professor Christopher Walters
Saif A Chowdhury “Should Physicians Be More Collaborative? Determining the Relationship Between Patient Participation and Treatment Plan Confidence Across a Spectrum of Illness Severity in the State of California” Thesis Advisor: Professor Benjamin Handel
Sin In Sabrina Chui “Modeling Optimal Greenhouse Gas Abatement and Investment in the Presence of Technology Spillovers” Thesis Advisor: Professor Robert Powell Daniel M Cohen “Understanding the Influence of Marginal Income Tax Rates on Retirement Investment Habits” Thesis Advisor: Professor Gabriel Zucman
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Lila Rose Englander “Do Eucalyptus Trees Increase Wildfires?” Thesis Advisor: Professor Meredith Fowlie
Jacob E Fajnor “Learning From Mistakes: Sentencing Experience and its Diminishing Effect on Judge Racial Bias” Thesis Advisor: Professor Conrad Miller
Kevin Fang “Understanding the Labor Outcomes of Hurricane Sandy” Thesis Advisor: Professor Emi Nakamura
Ekaterina Fedorova “Does TikTok Show Viewers the Content Relevant to Them?” Thesis Advisor: Professor Clair Brown
Anne W Fogarty “The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Care Provision on Long-term Young Adult Labor Market Choices” Thesis Advisor: Professor Benjamin Handel
Richard Gong “Orchestra Sex Disparity: Experimental Evidence from Audience Members” Thesis Advisor: Professor Sydnee Caldwell
Robert Hovakimyan “The Big Three Medical Price Indexes: A Comparative Review” Thesis Advisor: Professor Emi Nakamura
Antara Jha “The Effect of Gender of Leadership on Company Stock Performance in Response to Economic Shocks” Thesis Advisor: Professor Yuriy Gorodnichenko Yuxin Ji “The Role of Face Covering Mandates in the COVID-19 Job Market: An Analysis Based on Evidence from Twenty Industries” Thesis Advisor: Professor Demian Pouzo
Shankar Krishnan “Effect of Value-Added-Services on Customer Reviews in a Platform Marketplace” Thesis Advisor: Professor Steven Tadelis
Mary C Kruberg “Aggregate Spending Effects of the Expiration of the $600 per week CARES Act Unemployment Benefits” Thesis Advisor: Professor Jón Steinsson
Ember Hsia Jasmine Lin-Sperry “COVID19 Recession: Gender Layoff Gap Explodes” Thesis Advisor: Professor James Campbell
Tai B Lohrer “Do Marine Protected Areas Work As Intended? An Analysis of Bottom Trawling in New Zealand” Thesis Advisor: Professor Clair Brown
Donghe Lyu “The Gender Wage Gap in China: Learning from Recent Longitudinal Data” Thesis Advisor: Professor David Card
Jun Ru Lyu “Are Soccer Teams Being Inefficient? An Analysis of Sunk Cost Fallacy and Recency Bias Using Transfer Fee” Thesis Advisor: Professor Stefano DellaVigna
Dan Lam Ma “Local Graduation Policies as a Tool for Increasing College Eligibility: Evidence from Los Angeles” Thesis Advisor: Professor David Card
Charles Ian McMurry “Trust in Government and Lockdown Compliance in Sub-Saharan Africa” Thesis Advisor: Professor Edward Miguel Oliver Patrick McNeil “I Do (or Don’t): The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage Laws on International Tourism” Thesis Advisor: Professor Martha Olney
John Anders McInnis Melin “International Shipping Consequences of a Navigable Arctic” Thesis Advisor: Professor Barry Eichengreen
Aneesh Nathani “Investigating Dollar Invoicing Trends Using UK Trade Data” Thesis Advisor: Professor Maurice Obstfeld
Madhav R Nekkar “Quantifying Tradeoffs in and Optimizing COVID-19 Testing Protocols in California’s State Prison System” Thesis Advisor: Professor Stefano Bertozzi
Mina Nezam-Mafi “Micro-Level Impact of Initial Public Offerings on Bay Area Housing Inflation” Thesis Advisor: Professor Enrico Moretti
Nikolas J Osorio “Sort By Cost: Exploring the Effects of Transient Occupancy Taxes on Peer-to-Peer Home-Sharing Markets” Thesis Advisor: Professor Gabriel Zucman
Ruiwen Pan “Reward Dynamics and Effort Provision in Professional Tennis Tournaments” Thesis Advisor: Professor Benjamin Handel
Serra Peker “Buyback Realities: Motives for Share Repurchases in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Era” Thesis Advisor: Professor Alan Auerbach
Odysseus Pyrinis “Examining the Effects of Minimum Wage Laws on Part-Time Employment” Thesis Advisor: Professor Christopher Walters Aditi Ramakrishnan “The Great Indian Identity Crisis? -- Exclusions & Intersectionality in the Indian Aadhaar System” Thesis Advisor: Professor Benjamin Faber
Marcus D Sander “The Effects of Access to Family Planning Facilities on Female Labor Market Outcomes” Thesis Advisor: Professor Christopher Walters
Can Sarioz “The ‘Clutch Gene’ Myth: An Analysis of Late-Game Shooting Performance in the NBA” Thesis Advisor: Professor Benjamin Handel
Sidharth Satya “Estimating the Impact of Artifical Intelligence on Jobs Within the Healthcare Industry” Thesis Advisor: Professor Enrico Moretti
Emily A Schultz “Factors Influencing Telehealth Utilization: Evidence from California” Thesis Advisor: Professor Ryan Edwards
Nachiket Shah “Cash and Conflict: Evidence from the Indian Banknote Demonetization” Thesis Advisor: Professor Edward Miguel
Nina Singiri “Determinants of the Number of Anti-Government Demonstrations: Evidence from OECD Countries” Thesis Advisor: Professor Nick Tsivanidis
Mandara Malika Sugathapala “Hygiene Heros: A Process Evaluation of Promoting Hygiene Practices in Tamil Nadu Schools” Thesis Advisor: Professor David Levine
Anthony Swaminathan “Macroeconomic Volatility at the Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from the OECD” Thesis Advisor: Professor Yuriy Gorodnichenko Chun Him To “How are Society’s Conditions and Demographics Related to the Popularity of Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the Hong Kong Government?” Thesis Advisor: Professor Gerard Roland
Renee Isabel Utter “Exploring the Labour Patterns of Women and Mothers Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of School Closures and a New Kind of Recession” Thesis Advisor: Professor Martha Olney
Haolin Wang “How Have Socioeconomic Achievement Determinants Changed in the Past Decade for First-Generation Chinese Immigrants in the U.S.” Thesis Advisor: Professor Michael Reich
Jessica D Wang “Measuring the Impact of Chapter 13 Bankruptcy on Foreclosure” Thesis Advisor: Professor Emmanuel Saez
David Wynne Willigrod “The Impact of Quarantines on School Enrollment in Developing Countries: Evidence from the Ebola Epidemic in Sierra Leone” Thesis Advisor: Professor Ulrike Malmendier
Kevin Woo “Weeding out Needy Households and Welcoming the Better Off? Impacts of Transactional Barriers on SNAP Participation Rates” Thesis Advisor: Professor David Card
Junjie Xiao “Do Workers Work More if Wages are High? Field Evidence from Full-Time Factory Workers in China” Thesis Advisor: Professor Stefano DellaVigna
Emily Gracheva Yen “Evaluating the Impact of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard on Transportation Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Econometric Approach” Thesis Advisor: Professor Fan Dai Luke Zhang “Understanding the Gender Gap in Property Returns in the San Francisco Bay Area” Thesis Advisor: Professor Enrico Moretti
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Zhong Jiaxin Yang Zihan Zhong Mingyue Yang Brian T Zhou Zeyi Yang Ivee Yangzi Zhou Alice Ting Yao Yingyu Zhou Rachel Ye Zixiang Zhou Emily Gracheva Yen Minwan Zhu Jiong Han Yeo Marek Zielinski Veronica T Yim Thomas Zohrabyan Hongbing Yin Britney Ka-Yun Yip Seungyub Yoo + Phi Beta Kappa Ethan Jiheon Yoon In Memoriam
“Those we love we never lose, For always they will be, Loved, remembered, treasured, Always in our memory.” - unknown In the Time of Pandemic
And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.
- Kitty O’Meara HAIL TO CALIFORNIA
Hail to California, Alma mater dear; Sing the joyful chorus, Sound it far and near. Rallying round her banner, We will never fail; California, alma mater, Hail! Hail! Hail!
Hail to California, Queen in whom we’re blest; Spreading light and goodness Over all the West. Fighting ‘neath her standard, We shall sure prevail; California, alma mater, Hail! Hail! Hail! “Hail to California,” composed by Clinton R. “Brick” Morse in 1896
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David Card
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