Bryan S. Graham

About

Image of Bryan S. Graham in 2019I am a Professor of Economics at the University of California - Berkeley. I began my career at Cal in 2005 and, after spending two years at the Economics Department of New York University, returned in the Fall of 2011. I have also spent time as a visiting professor at Zamorano University, Harvard University and the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI).

I am an econometrician with research interests in network formation, the identification of peer group effects, panel data and missing data problems (including those related to causal inference). My research has appeared in a variety of journals, including Econometrica and the Review of Economic Studies. A survey of my work on “Network Data” appears in the most recent volume of the Handbook of Econometrics. I recently published a book with Aureo de Paula on The Econometric Analysis of Network Data. I was a co-editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics from 2014 to 2020.

At Berkeley I teach econometrics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. I completed my Ph.D. at Harvard University under the supervision of Gary Chamberlain. Prior to Harvard I studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, the Australian National University as a Fulbright Scholar and Tufts University.

A full CV in pdf format is available here. A high resolution photograph of myself can be found here and here.

Abbreviated CV

Current Position

Professor, Department of Economics, University of California – Berkeley, 2017 - present

Education

Past Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of California – Berkeley, 2011 - 2017

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University, 2009 - 2011

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California – Berkeley, 2005 - 2011 (on leave 2009 - 2011)

Selected Publications

  1. “Network data”, Handbook of Econometrics 7A: 111 - 218 (S. Durlauf, L. Hansen, J. Heckman & R. Matzkin, Eds.). Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2020
  2. “An econometric model of network formation with degree heterogeneity,”Econometrica 85 (4): 1033 - 1063, 2017 (lead article)
  3. “Identification and estimation of average partial effects in `irregular’ correlated random coefficient panel data models,” Econometrica 80 (5): 2105 - 2152, 2012 (w/ James Powell)
  4. “Inverse probability tilting for moment condition models with missing data,” Review of Economic Studies 79 (3): 1053 - 1079, 2012 (w/ Cristine Pinto and Dan Egel)
  5. “Efficiency bounds for missing data models with semiparametric restrictions,” Econometrica 79 (2): 437 – 452, 2011
  6. “Econometric methods for the analysis of assignment problems in the presence of complementarity and social spillovers,” Handbook of Social Economics 1B: 965 - 1052 (J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, & M. Jackson, Eds.). Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2011
  7. “Identifying social interactions through conditional variance restrictions,” Econometrica 76 (3): 643 – 660, 2008

Selected Honors

  1. Elected Fellow of the International Associated of Applied Econometrics (IAAE), 2023
  2. Review of Economic Studies Tour, 2005
  3. Rhodes Scholar, 1998
  4. Fulbright Scholar, 1997

Selected Grants

  1. National Science Foundation (SES #1851647) grant: “Semiparametric methods of policy analysis with social and economic network data” (PI) (272K), 2019 - 2021
  2. National Science Foundation (SES #1357499) grant: “Econometric models for networks and matching with heterogeneous agents” (PI) (325K), 2015 - 2019
  3. National Science Foundation (SES #0921928) grant: “Collaborative research: identification, estimation and application of semiparametric panel data models” (PI) (365K), 2009 - 2012
  4. National Science Foundation (SES #0820361) grant: “Collaborative research: the econometrics of reallocations in the presence of complementarity and social spillovers: estimands, identification and estimation” (PI) (212K), 2008 - 2009