Ricardo Perez-Truglia

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J-PAL Affiliated Professor

Associate Professor

University of California, Los Angeles

Professor of Economics Ricardo Perez-Truglia is UCLA Anderson’s Justice Elwood Lui Endowed Term Chair in Management. In 2020, he was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes outstanding early-career faculty with the potential to revolutionize their fields of study. His research focuses primarily on income inequality, the gender pay gap, pay transparency and tax compliance. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University.