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Ran Abramitzky
Senior Associate Dean for Social Sciences, Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Economics, and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
BioRan Abramitzky is the Stanford Federal Credit Union Professor of Economics and Senior Associate Dean of the Social Sciences at Stanford University. His research in economic history and applied microeconomics focuses on immigration, social mobility, and inequality. An important strand of his research centers on constructing large-scale historical datasets to trace the long-run trajectories of immigrants and U.S.-born families, offering new perspectives on the American Dream.
His work has informed academic research, appeared in major media, and contributed to public discussions and policy debates on economic opportunity and immigration. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and previously served as co-editor of Explorations in Economic History.
His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, an honorary doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark, Stanford’s Economics Department and Dean’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching, and grants from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. He is the author of The Mystery of the Kibbutz (2018), which received the Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize, and coauthor, with Leah Boustan, of Streets of Gold (2022), named among the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Forbes, and Behavioral Scientist. He received his PhD in economics from Northwestern University. -
T. M. Jensen Ahokovi
Graduate, Economics
BioI’m a predoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the STAX Lab (Stanford Initiative on Business, Taxation, and Society) at the Graduate School of Business, where I work with Professors Ran Abramitzky and Rebecca Lester.
My interests lie at the intersection of labor and urban economics, public finance, and economic history. I'm particularly interested in how labor markets and cities evolve over time—and how government interventions through taxation, regulation, and social programs shape both individual trajectories and broader economic outcomes.
Previously, I was a research assistant in the Economic Policy Studies department at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where I primarily supported the work of PhD economists and Senior Fellows Stan Veuger, Vincent Smith, and Paul Kupiec.
I earned my BA in the Quantitative Economics Concentration from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in summer 2024. Before AEI, I held research roles at the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO), the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at Hawai‘i Pacific University, and the Grassroot Institute of Hawai‘i. I plan to pursue a PhD in economics and/or public policy in the near future. -
Itai Ashlagi
Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and, Professor, by courtesy, of Economics
BioItai Ashlagi is a Professor at the Management Science & Engineering Department.
He is interested in game theory and the design and analysis of marketplaces. He is especially interested in marketplaces, in which matching is an essential activity. markets, for which he developed mechanisms using tools from operations/cs and economics. His work influenced the practice of Kidney exchange, for which he has become a Franz Edelman Laureate. Ashlagi received his PhD in operations research from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Before coming to Stanford he was an assistant professor of Operations Management at Sloan, MIT and prior to that a postdoctoral researcher at HBS. He is the recipient of the outstanding paper award in the ACM conference of Electronic Commerce 2009. His research is supported by the NSF including an NSF-CAREER award.
