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Lucas Chaves Gurgel 1 E1738359901167

Lucas Gurgel

Graduate Research Assistant

Email lchavesg@vols.utk.edu

Location Room F148, Cherokee Mills, Suite 108

Department:

Economics

Center:

Boyd Center for Business & Economic Research

Biography

Fourth-Year

Fields of interests: labor economics, public economics, energy and applied macroeconomics

Lucas Chaves Gurgel is fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Department of Economics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business. His research focuses on labor and public economics, with particular attention to the intersection of education and health outcomes. He also maintains an active research interest in applied macroeconomics, having published work on Brazilian monetary policy and examined how oil price fluctuations affect economic performance.

Chaves Gurgel currently works as a research assistant at Haslam’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research, where he develops policy evaluation projects for faculty and external organizations. Before graduate school, he worked as an electrical engineer on wind farm operations and university infrastructure projects.