Charlie Rafkin

I am a behavioral and public economist. My research focuses on topics in social policy, using ideas from behavioral economics to study transfer programs and housing insecurity.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia, where I started in Winter 2026. I received my PhD in Economics from MIT in 2024 and completed postdoctoral visits at Berkeley and Stanford in 2024–2025.

✍︎ charlie.rafkin@ubc.ca CV

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Take-up PhD teaching slides on benefit take-up and targeting [behavioral PF focus, comments welcome!] Discussions Selected conference discussions scfses Code for producing summary statistics in the Survey of Consumer Finances