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Asher Dvir-Djerassi

Admitted: Fall 2019

Asher Dvir-Djerassi is a joint Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Public Policy.  He is a Fellow at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, where he works closely with the Wealth and Mobility (WAM) Study. As a Population Center Trainee, he has been funded by the National Institutes of Health. Asher came to the University of Michigan with an M.S. in data science from the City University of New York, a B.A. in economics from Hampshire College, and a year of graduate coursework in economics completed at Sciences Po–Paris. From 2014 to 2015, Asher served as a Fulbright Fellow in Bulgaria. Asher's research primarily concerns income and wealth inequality. Thematically, Asher's research is situated within fiscal sociology, stratification, comparative historical institutionalism, and comparative political economy.