Fellowship received in 2018
Current affiliation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Nikhil Rao is a PhD candidate in Economics. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015 with a BA in Economics and Mathematics. He then worked a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston before joining the University of Michigan. Broad topics of interest involve human capital acquisition and the determinants of social mobility. Recent projects have focused on these topics as applied to gender differences, immigration enforcement and populations at risk of incarceration.
