Patrick Wade

Smiling young man with glasses in warm-lit café.

Position Title
Graduate Student

he/him/his
Education and Degree(s)
  • M.A., Sociology, University of California, Davis, 2026
  • B.S., Finance, Santa Clara University, 2020
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Computational Social Science
  • Organizational Sociology
  • Work and Occupations
  • Central Banks
Publications
  • Goff, Sandra, John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee, Alex Reents & Patrick Wade. (2023). “Support for Bigger Government: the Principle-Implementation Gap and COVID-19.” Contemporary Economic Policy, 1– 19. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12593
  • Hunter, Savannah, Enrique Lopezlira, and Patrick Wade. (2026). “Union Density and Membership in California - 2025 Update” Pp. 6-12 in State of the Unions: California Labor in 2025. Los Angeles: UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. https://irle.ucla.edu/publication/state-of-the-unions-2025/
  • Wade, Patrick and Savannah Hunter. (2025). “One in Four California Veteran Workers Have a Union.” UC Berkeley Labor Center. https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/one-in-four-california-veteran-workers-have-a-union/
  • Hunter, Savannah, Enrique Lopezlira, and Patrick Wade. (2025). “A Profile of Union Workers in the Golden State.” Pp. 5-26 in State of the Unions: California Labor in 2024. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UC Berkeley Labor Center and UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/state-of-the-unions-california-labor-in-2024/
  • Wade, Patrick and Diego Mendez-Carbajo. (2023). “Visualizing changes in population using binary FRED maps.” The FRED Blog from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2023/07/visualizing-changes-in-population-using-binary-fred-maps/