Rucker Johnson is Assistant Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D in economics from the University of Michigan in 2002, where his training focused on areas of applied microeconomics. He was honored to be the recipient of three national dissertation awards from the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Upjohn Institute, and the National Economics Association. Professor Johnson was the Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at the University of Michigan. His research emphasizes issues of poverty and inequality in the fields of labor, urban, and health economics.