Matthew Forbes is an assistant policy researcher at RAND and a Ph.D. student at the RAND School of Public Policy. He has an M.P.P. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. in honors economics and data science from the University of California, Berkeley, with minors in public policy, city planning, conservation studies, and political economy.
Prior to joining RAND, he was as a graduate student researcher at the California Policy Lab, where he studied the economic impacts of the withdrawal of pandemic-related unemployment benefit extensions. He was previously a finance intern for the City of Thousand Oaks, California. His research interests include economic policy, labor economics, social insurance, data science, and quantitative modeling, and his dissertation examines factors that influence the labor market outcomes of workers with disabilities.
M.P.P. in public policy, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA); B.A. in economics, University of California-Berkeley; B.A. in data science, University of California-Berkeley
