AEASP 2025 Scholar Luke Chaussee

Luke is a first-generation college graduate from Sacramento, California. He recently earned a B.S. in Economics with Honors from the University of Washington. His senior thesis, “Downstream Consequences of Criminal Justice Reform: Evaluating the Impact of Proposition 47 on California’s Retail Sector,” received the department’s Outstanding Paper Award.

As an undergraduate, Luke worked as a research assistant at the Evans School of Public Policy--where he studied the determinants of water rights prices--and served on the Economics Undergraduate Board. Following the AEA Summer Program, he is joining the Federal Reserve Board of Governors as a research assistant. Luke is broadly interested in applied microeconomics and is preparing to pursue a Ph.D. in economics. In his free time, he enjoys sports, spending time outdoors, and learning new skills.