Rachel Inafuku
UHERO Research Economist
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2022
M.A., Economics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2018
B.A., Economics, Loyola Marymount University, 2017
Research Interests
Health, Labor, Public economics
Short-term Vacation Rentals and Housing Costs in Hawaiʻi
By Rachel Inafuku and Justin Tyndall Of the state’s 565,000 total housing units, 30,000 are listed as Short-term Vacation Rentals (STRs), meaning roughly 5% of
April 18, 2023
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VOG – Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Impact of Pollutants on Learning Outcomes
By Rachel Inafuku. Joint research with Tim Halliday, Lester Lusher and Aureo de Paula. Introduction While an extensive number of studies have shown that pollution
December 3, 2022
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VOG: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Impact of Air Pollution on Student Learning Outcomes
This study pairs variation stemming from volcanic eruptions from Kilauea with the census of Hawai‘i’s public schools student test scores to estimate the impact of
November 1, 2022
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