Charlie Rafkin

I'm a PhD candidate at MIT Economics, with interests in public and behavioral economics.

In January 2026, I'll join the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor of Economics, following postdoc visits at Berkeley (Fall 2024–Summer 2025) and Stanford (Fall 2025).

Email: crafkin@mit.edu | CV

Working Papers

Publications

Code & Resources

GitHub repo containing simple Javascript code for improving Qualtrics surveys. Also includes a few other tricks for general research workflow.

A checklist that I run through before launching any Qualtrics survey.

scfses: A Stata program to obtain quantiles of variables (point estimates and standard errors) in the Survey of Consumer Finances.