Travis Cyronek

Biography

Travis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He completed his undergraduate studies in Economics at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, and Econometrics. Very broadly, Travis studies how frictions affect the choices of firms and workers, and what this implies for measurement and aggregate (labor market) behavior. He am especially interested in the essential connection between theory and empirics: models help the researcher think about the interpretation of data, and data offers a ruler with which to assess the performance of models.