Established in 2014 through a gift from Christopher Cramer (AB ’93 Econ) and Karin Cramer, the Cramer Family Fellowship in Economics Fund supports graduate students in the Economics Department.
Chris is a member of the department’s Economics Leadership Council (ELC) and also serves on the University of Michigan LS&A Dean’s Advisory Council.
Recipient:
Emily Horton
Emily Horton is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan. Her fields are public finance and labor economics. Her research focuses on how households and firms respond to tax policies, with an emphasis on the distributional impact of tax policies across income groups. Before starting at Michigan, Emily was a research assistant at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington,DC. She earned her BA in Economics and Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.
