Associate Professor
Economic Analysis & Policy
About
Ricardo Perez-Truglia is an Associate Professor at the Haas School of Business.
His research focuses on various topics, including income inequality, the gender pay gap, pay transparency, and tax compliance. Typically, he begins by formulating a hypothesis about how individuals make decisions or how a policy will affect them. To test those hypotheses, he collaborates with firms and governments. These collaborations often involve field experiments.
In 2020, Perez-Truglia was named a Sloan Research Fellow, an award that recognizes outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study.
Perez-Truglia teaches Microeconomics for MBAs. In 2022, he was awarded the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in MBA Teaching. He also works as a scholar for Amazon, where he conducts research to improve employee satisfaction, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Perez-Truglia received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2014. He grew up in the Ciudadela neighborhood near Buenos Aires. Ricardo and his wife (Marina) have three children: Alma, Lucas and Nicolas.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Behavioral Economics
- Labor Economics
- Political Economy
- Public Economics
- The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap, American Economic Review, 2023
- How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons, Journal of Political Economy, 2022
- The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, American Economic Review, 2020
- Partisan Interactions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States, Journal of Political Economy, 2017
- Conveniently Upset: Avoiding Altruism by Distorting Beliefs About Others’ Altruism, American Economic Review, 2015
At Haas since 2020
- July 2020 – Present: Associate Professor, Economic Analysis & Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
- July 2016 – June 2020: Assistant Professor, Global Economics and Management, Anderson School of Management, UCLA.
- July 2014 – June 2016: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research New England.
- 2021–: Co-Editor, Journal of Public Economics.
- 2020–: Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
- 2020–: Scholar, Amazon
- 2016–: Visiting Professor, Universidad de San Andres
- Spanish
- Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow, 2023
- Poets & Quants’ Best 40-Under-40 Business School Professors, 2023
- Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in MBA Teaching, 2022
- Sloan Research Fellow, 2020
- Success at Work Is Warped by Your Co-Workers’ Salaries, The Wall Street Journal, 09/22/2022
- Remote Work Doesn’t Have to Be the Mommy Track, The New York Times, 03/02/2022
- Who Benefits When Salary Info Is Public?, The New York Times, 01/1/2022
- Here’s what would happen if Americans could look up everyone’s salary, MarketWatch, 09/30/2021
- Can’t come to Berkeley? Haas launches new flex program to draw more students, Fortune, 08/10/2021
- Study suggests male bankers benefit from smoking and drinking, eFinancialCareers, 07/09/2021
- A Close-Up Picture of Partisan Segregation, Among 180 Million Voters, The New York Times, 03/18/2021
- UCLA Anderson’s Perez-Truglia: The Old Boys’ Club Still Promotes Its Own, Poets & Quants, 01/29/2020
- Breaking the Salary Sharing Taboo, New York Times Magazine, 02/19/2020
- Friends with bonuses: men get ahead by befriending the boss, The Telegraph, 02/18/2020
- Study: How Schmoozing Helps Men Get Ahead, Harvard Business Review, 01/29/2020
- A third of the gender pay gap can be explained by schmoozing between men and their male bosses, Quartz, 12/19/2019
- Hundreds of journalists anonymously reveal their salaries on viral spreadsheet, challenging workplace taboo, Washington Post, 11/14/2019
- Should you decide what you are paid?, Financial Times, 11/28/2018
- Happy ‘National Jealousy Day’! Finland Bares Its Citizens’ Taxes, New York Times, 11/01/2018
- The Motivating (and Demotivating) Effects of Learning Others’ Salaries, Harvard Business Review, 10/25/2018
- My Boss Makes What?!, Wall Street journal, 08/06/2018
- Shaming Those Who Skip Out on Taxes, New York Times, 04/15/2015
- Microeconomics, MBA 201A