Our Team

Bruce D. Meyer

McCormick Foundation Professor, CID Project Founder

Bruce D. Meyer is the founder of the CID Project and serves as the McCormick Foundation Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His research focuses on poverty and inequality, tax policy, government safety net programs such as unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, food stamps, and Medicaid, and the accuracy of household surveys. Meyer received his BA and MA in economics from Northwestern University and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

bdmeyer@uchicago.edu

Derek Wu

Research Affiliate

Derek Wu is an Assistant Professor at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on poverty and inequality, the effects of government programs, and the economics of education. Wu received his AB from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.

derekwu@uchicago.edu

Angela Wyse

Research Affiliate

Angela Wyse is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on poverty, homelessness, and immigration. Wyse received her BA from the University of Michigan and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

awyse@uchicago.edu

Brian Curran

Graduate Research Fellow

Brian Curran is a Graduate Research Fellow at the CID Project. His research at the CID Project focuses on the poverty and the geography of disadvantage. Curran received his AB in Economics and Mathematics from Dartmouth College.

bcurran@uchicago.edu

Connor Murphy

Graduate Research Fellow

Connor Murphy is a Graduate Research Fellow at the CID Project. His research at the CID Project focuses on household consumption surveys and homelessness. Murphy received his BA in Economics and Applied Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame.

connormurphy@uchicago.edu

Matthew Stadnicki

Graduate Research Fellow

Matthew Stadnicki is a Graduate Research Fellow at the CID Project. His research at the CID Project focuses on tax and earnings data and the effects of government programs. Stadnicki received his BA in economics and mathematics from Northwestern University.

mstadnicki@uchicago.edu

Aaron Hong

Graduate Research Fellow

Aaron Hong is a Graduate Research Fellow at the CID Project. In the past, he has conducted research on the relationship between interest groups and executive agencies. Hong received his BS in economics and mathematics and BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego.

aahong@uchicago.edu

Mandana Vakil

Menard Family Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Mandana Vakil is a Menard Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the CID Project. In the past, her research has focused on modeling unemployment, student homelessness, and pandemic effects on labor market outcomes. Vakil received her BA in economics and public policy from Brown University and her MSc in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

mvakil@uchicago.edu

Anthony Tatarka

Menard Family Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Anthony Tatarka is a Menard Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the CID Project. His past research has focused on housing policy and the effect on housing production. Tatarka received his BS in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Notre Dame.

atatarka1@uchicago.edu

Douglas Williams

Menard Family Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Douglas Williams is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the CID Project. His past research has been on US homelessness, evaluating government programs, surface mesh generation, and particle energy simulation. Doug received his BS in data science and BA in public policy from the University of Chicago.

douglasmsw@gmail.com

Gabriella Rocco

Pre-Doctoral Fellow

Gabriella Rocco is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the CID Project. Previously, she was a Senior Associate of Impact & ESG at Energy Impact Partners and a Senior Analyst of Regulatory Policy at Goldman Sachs. Rocco received her BS in Policy Analysis & Mangement from Cornell University and her MPP from the University of Chicago.

grocco@uchicago.edu

Gabriel Rogow-Patt

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Gabriel Rogow-Patt is an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the CID Project. His work at the CID Project focuses on federal aid program data and the housing market. Rogow-Patt is a mathematics and economics major at the University of Chicago.

grogowpatt@uchicago.edu

Affiliated Researchers

Nikolas Mittag is an Associate Professor at CERGE-EI. His CID Project research focuses on misreporting in surveys and developing new methods to correct survey errors.

James Sullivan is the Gilbert F. Schaefer College Professor of Economics and co-founder of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame. His CID Project research focuses on real-time poverty measurement and the relationship between income and consumption.

CID Project Alumni

Kevin Corinth (Staff Director, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress)

Grace Finley (Graduate Student, Harvard University)

Alexa Grunwaldt (Graduate Student, Yale University)

Victoria Mooers (Graduate Student, Columbia University)

Gillian Meyer (Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania)

Ilina Logani (Graduate Student, University of Oxford)