TJ Hedin

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. candidate in economics, UCLA · Fields: Labor, Public

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Education

University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., Economics — in progress · Fields: Labor, Public
2027 (expected)
University of Wisconsin–Madison M.S., Economics
2016
Carthage College B.A., Economics
2013

Publications

UI Benefit Generosity and Labor Supply from 2002–2020: Evidence from California UI Records with Alex Bell, Geoffrey Schnorr, and Till von Wachter. Journal of Labor Economics, 42(S1), April 2024, S379–S416.

Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data with Alex Bell, Peter Mannino, Roozbeh Moghadam, Geoffrey Schnorr, and Till von Wachter. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 9(3), May 2023, 78–109.

Estimating the Disparate Cumulative Impact of the Pandemic in Administrative Unemployment Insurance Data with Alex Bell, Peter Mannino, Roozbeh Moghadam, Carl Romer, Geoffrey Schnorr, and Till von Wachter. AEA Papers & Proceedings, 112, May 2022, 78–84.

Working Papers

The Effect of Unemployment Benefit Supplements: Evidence from the Lost Wages Assistance Program Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Public Economics.

Work in Progress

The Effect of Prosecution on Future Criminal Behavior Job market paper.

Can Ignition Interlock Devices Reduce Drunk Driving Recidivism? Evidence from California with Steven Raphael and Yotam Shem-Tov.

Unemployment Benefit Generosity on Future Job Quality with Alex Bell, Geoffrey Schnorr, and Till von Wachter.

Policy Writing

Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Claims in California During the COVID-19 Pandemic with Alex Bell, Roozbeh Moghadam, Geoffrey Schnorr, and Till von Wachter. California Policy Lab, series of reports.

Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from US and California Claims Data with Alex Bell, Peter Mannino, Roozbeh Moghadam, Geoffrey Schnorr, and Till von Wachter. Report to the U.S. Department of Labor, 2022.

An Evaluation of an Expansion of the Use of Ignition Interlock Devices through California Senate Bill 1046 with Steven Raphael and Yotam Shem-Tov. Report to the California State Transportation Agency.

Employment

Teaching Assistant University of California, Los Angeles
  • Econ 11 (Intermediate Microeconomics)
Jan–Mar 2026
Graduate Student Researcher University of California, Los Angeles
  • Prof. Yotam Shem-Tov · March 2024 – December 2025
  • Prof. Felipe Gonçalves · September 2023 – March 2024
  • Prof. Till von Wachter · September 2021 – March 2024
2021–present
Data Analyst California Policy Lab (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA
2019–2021
Research Assistant University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2018–2019
Economic Consultant Fulcrum Inquiry, Los Angeles, CA
2018

Grants & Fellowships

Dissertation Year Fellowship UCLA Economics · $20,000
2026–2027
Understanding the Effects of Criminal Prosecution Arnold Ventures · $60,836
2025–2028
Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship UCLA · $20,000
2024–2025
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship UCLA · $6,000
Summer 2023
Graduate Fellowship Grant California Policy Lab · $10,000
Summer 2022
Department Fellowship UCLA Economics · $20,322
2021–2022

Invited Seminars & Presentations

Including scheduled.

All-California Labor Economics Conference (UC Berkeley); Virtual Crime Economics (ViCe) Seminar
2026
All-California Labor Economics Conference (Stanford SIEPR, poster session)
2025
Hoover Conference on Collaborative State and Local Policy Research (Stanford); Southern California Applied Economics Conference (UC Irvine)
2024

Service

Referee Economic Inquiry, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Economic Inequality
First Year Ph.D. Student Mentor UCLA
2022–2023

References

Yotam Shem-Tov Associate Professor of Economics, UCLA
Martha Bailey Professor of Economics and Director of the California Center for Population Research, UCLA
Till von Wachter Professor of Economics, UCLA

Contact details for references are in the PDF.