Richard Calvo

PhD student at University of California, Berkeley

Richard Calvo is an Economics PhD student at the University of California Berkeley. His research primarily focuses on Political Economy and Applied Microeconomics. Prior to UC Berkeley, he was a Research Associate for Jesse Shapiro at Harvard Business School. Calvo received a BA in Economics and Government and Politics from the University of Maryland.

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VoxEU Column

Why the 2024 US election, and so many others, were so hard to predict

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  • Political Economy
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  • Politics and economics