Christopher Walters is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on labor economics and the economics of education, with emphasis on school performance at the primary and early childhood levels. Christopher has served as a co-author on several Blueprint Labs studies of charter schools in Massachusetts. He received a BA in economics and philosophy from the University of Virginia, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2008, and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT.