Asher Dvir-Djerassi

Asher Dvir-Djerassi is a joint Ph.D. student with Sociology and the Ford School of Public Policy.  He is a also a Fellow at the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, where works closely with the Wealth and Mobility Study. As a Population Center Trainee, he is funded by National Institute 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 concerns wealth and wealth inequality. Via the Internal Revenue Service, Asher has access to administrative tax data. This data is the fountainhead for his dissertation research. Asher's broad research area is situated within the following literatures: fiscal sociology, social demography, simulation methods, comparative historical institutionalism, tax and transfer policy in the United States and Europe, and the political economy of post-socialist Eastern Europe & the European Union.