Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowships are intended to speed the process of completing the dissertation. Except in unusual cases, they should be awarded to students who are at the writing stage of the dissertation. This will permit candidates to work full-time on the final stages of their dissertations.
Fall 2024 Recipients:
Daniel Velásquez
Daniel Velásquez is a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Economics Department at University of Michigan. His research fields are International Trade, Economic Geography, and Development Economics. In particular, he is interested in the intersection of geography with gender, market failures, and production networks. Before starting his Ph.D. in Economics at University of Michigan, he earned his M.A./B.A.degrees in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru.
Nikhil Rao
Nikhil Rao is a PhD candidate in Economics. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015 with a BA in Economics and Mathematics. He then worked a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston before joining the University of Michigan. Broad topics of interest involve human capital acquisition and the determinants of social mobility. Recent projects have focused on these topics as applied populations involved in the criminal justice system and at risk of incarceration.
Bruna Morais Guidetti
Bruna Guidetti is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the University of Michigan. She earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Brasilia and a M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Sao Paulo (USP), where she received the prestigious FAPESP Fellowship and the Foreign Research Fellowship (BEPE-FAPESP). Her undergraduate thesis investigated the impacts of school inclusion on learning achievement, and her master's thesis analyzed the consequences of air pollutionon admissions for respiratory illnesses, with some findings published in the AEA Papers and Proceedings. Currently, as a Ph.D. student, she focuses on how regulations in healthcare markets can enhance access to healthcare.
