Julie Berry Cullen is an American economist who is a professor and Chair of Economics at the University of California, San Diego.
[1] She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a doctoral researcher, where she studied special education finance.
[2] After earning her doctorate, she was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship.
[5] In Michigan, she studied the Disability insurance (DI) program and the welfare implications of increasing benefit generosity.
[8] She has studied strategies to improve struggling high schools, and showed that expanding access to education that provides work experiences and life skills is a cost-effective way to benefit people on low incomes.