Past Funded Researchers

Ariel Zucker

Ariel Zucker

  • PhD Candidate (During Grant Period)
  • Department of Economics

Ariel Zucker is a development economist specializing in policy interventions for behavioral change. Much of her work aims to understand how to effectively design and target incentive programs, and she has designed randomized controlled trials to evaluate programs to encourage a wide range of behaviors, from water and energy conservation to health improvements among diabetics and people with substance use disorders. She is currently a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UC Berkeley, and she received her Ph.D. from MIT in 2018.

J-WAFS-funded projects