Steven Raphael
Research Fellow
Steven Raphael is Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the economics of low-wage labor markets, housing, and the economics of crime and corrections. His most recent research focuses on the social consequences of the large increases in U.S. incarceration rates. He also works on the economics immigration, racial inequality, labor unions, social insurance policies, homelessness, and low-income housing. Raphael holds a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2009.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12722
Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin, Steven Raphael
published in: Criminology & Public Policy, 2020, 19 (4), 1165-1207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12652
published as 'Decarceration and Crime: California’s Experience' in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds.), A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Edward Elgar, 2022, 83 - 134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9812
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (2), 103 - 126
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9420
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81 (4), 960–979
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7838
published in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016, 664 (1), 196-220
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5682
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(2), 258-269
