Fellow
Education:
Ph.D. in Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management, 2018
M.A. in Economics, New Economic School, 2012
M.A. and B.A. in Oriental and African Studies, Moscow State University, 2012 and 2010
Research Areas:
Applied Microeconomics
Labor
Political Economy
Development
Teaching Areas:
Economics
Management
Public Policy Analysis
Michael Poyker is a fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin. Before joining the LBJ School, he was an assistant professor of economics at the School of Economics, University of Nottingham. He received his Ph.D. in management from The University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management in 2018, and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia Business School from 2018 to 2020.
Poyker earned an M.A. in Economics from The New Economic School and B.A. and M.A. in Oriental and African Studies from The Moscow State University. His research interests focus primarily on gender, cultural norms, discrimination, and social justice. His research areas are applied micro/labor, political economy, and development.