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Rachel M Friedberg is a Teaching Professor of Economics at Brown University, holding affiliations with the Department of Economics, Program in Judaic Studies, and Population Studies and Training Center. She earned her PhD from MIT (1993) and BA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1986). Her research focuses on immigration economics, exploring labor market impacts, human capital portability, and policy implications in the US and Israel. She has testified before Congress and Israel's Knesset, and pioneered interdisciplinary studies combining economics with Jewish social science. Her Principles of Economics course is Brown's most popular undergraduate class.
Key research themes include immigrant assimilation, guest worker policies, and labor market competition. Awards include the William G. McLoughlin Teaching Award (2008) and NBER/Sloan Foundation grants. Major grants include Falk Institute funding for studies on Palestinian labor outcomes (2000-2005) and Israeli migration impacts (1996). She maintains affiliations with Stanford's Poverty Center and CReAM, and teaches applied research methods in economics.
