David Schönholzer

David Schönholzer is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz. He completed his PhD in economics at UC Berkeley in 2018, after which he was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University in 2019 and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University in 2022. He studies the efficient provision of public goods, primarily by local governments in the U.S., with further interests in the historical and comparative roots of state capacity. His research frequently combines big spatial data with both reduced-form and structural microeconomic methods. He is originally from Switzerland where he completed undergraduate studies in political science, economics, and statistics.