Dr. Swapnil Motghare is a Researcher at the California Policy Lab at UCLA where he is part of a team focused on labor and employment. Before joining CPL, Dr. Motghare worked as an Assistant Research Professor and Postdoctoral Research Associate in Economics at the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Motghare’s published research and working papers focus on understanding the impact on workers of policies affecting wages as well as disruptions such as the COVID-19-induced recession. More recently, he studied the effect of Unemployment Insurance generosity on labor supply. Dr. Motghare has also studied disparities in unemployment duration during the COVID-19 pandemic by gender, race, and ethnicity to understand the unequal effects of the pandemic.

At CPL, Dr. Motghare is part of several labor-focused projects, including the evaluation of the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment program, studying the links between mortality and UI benefits, high utilization of UI benefits, and the labor market recovery post-COVID-19.

Dr. Motghare earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Arizona, and an MA in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Outside of work, Dr. Motghare loves spending time with his toddler daughter.