School of Humanities and Sciences
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Boya Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioBoya Wang is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, specializing in the field of early childhood development. Her research is dedicated to identifying and implementing effective programs and policies aimed at enhancing the well-being of children in rural China. With a wealth of field experience, she has a keen interest in promoting early human capital formation. Through large-scale randomized controlled trials, she evaluates the profound impact of parenting interventions on enhancing parenting practices, improving caregiver mental health, and fostering early childhood development.
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Chagai Weiss
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioChagai M. Weiss is a postdoctoral fellow at the Conflict and Polarization Lab at Stanford University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2022 after spending two years as a Middle East Initiative predoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Chagai's core interest is in examining how institutions and the people within them shape intergroup relations in divided societies. He is also working on several projects examining the effects of scalable interventions for prejudice reduction, the electoral effects of conflict, the institutional origins of partisan polarization, and experimental methods. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Cambridge University Press, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and other journals.
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Eleanor Wiseman
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioPersonal website: www.eleanorwiseman.com
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Frank Wolak
Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
BioFrank A. Wolak is the Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Department of Economics and the Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University. His research and teaching focuses on design, performance, and monitoring of energy and environmental markets. He served as Chair of the Market Surveillance Committee (MSC) of the California Independent System Operator and was a member of the Emissions Market Advisory Committee (EMAC) for California’s Market for Greenhouse Gas Emissions allowances.
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Gavin Wright
William Robertson Coe Professor in American Economic History, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProfessor Wright is now studying the economic implications of voting rights and vote suppression in the American South. He is also revisiting the relationship between slavery and Anglo-American capitalism.
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Dan Zeltzer
Visiting Assistant Professor
BioDan Zeltzer is a tenured faculty member at the Tel Aviv University Berglas School of Economics and an affiliate of both IZA and CESifo. An applied microeconomist, he earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and specializes in Health Economics. For the academic year 2023/4, Dan is a visiting assistant professor at Stanford's Economics Department. His research is currently directed towards understanding the transformation in healthcare driven by advancements in digitization, emerging care models such as urgent care centers and telemedicine, and the innovative applications of predictive modeling and artificial intelligence.
