Faculty

Titan Alon

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2018
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: Macroeconomics
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, labor, economic history, and growth

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2000
Provost, Seventh College; Professor of Teaching
Research Groups: Public Economics, Labor Economics
Research Interests: Racial discrimination, gender discrimination, affirmative action, economics of education, intergenerational income mobility, learning, and wage dynamics

David Arnold

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Co-Director of Instruction
Research Groups: Labor Economics
Research Interests: Wage determination and discrimination

Samuel Bazzi

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2013
Professor
Research Groups: Development Economics, Political Economics
Research Interests: Development, political economics

Eli Berman

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993
Professor, IGCC Research Director
Research Groups: Development Economics, Labor Economics, Political Economics
Research Interests: Labor economics, labor demand and technological change, religion, middle east, terrorism and insurgency, fertility, immigration, language

Julian R. Betts

Ph.D., Queens University, 1990
Professor
Research Groups: Labor Economics
Research Interests: Labor economics, economics of education, immigration, technological change

Prashant Bharadwaj

Ph.D., Yale University, 2009
Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies
Research Groups: Development Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics
Research Interests: Fertility and labor markets, health impacts of air pollution

Judd Boomhower

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: Environment and Resource Economics, Public Economics, Industrial Organization
Research Interests: Energy, environmental economics, climate change

Richard T. Carson

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1985
Professor
Research Groups: Environment and Resource Economics, Public Economics, Industrial Organization
Research Interests: Environmental valuation, climate change, environment and development, fisheries

Jeffrey Clemens

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Public Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics
Research Interests: Health economics, minimum wages, fiscal federalism, social insurance

Julie Berry Cullen

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997
Professor
Research Groups: Public Economics, Labor Economics
Research Interests: Economics of education, social insurance, fiscal federalism

Gordon B. Dahl

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1998
Professor
Research Groups: Labor Economics, Public Economics, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Political Economics
Research Interests: Human capital, family economics, crime, peer effects

Songzi Du

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2012
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Finance, Microeconomic Theory
Research Interests: Game theory, mechanism design, market microstructure

Fabian Eckert

Ph.D., Yale University, 2019
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: International Economics, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics
Research Interests: International trade, macroeconomics, spatial economics

Graham Elliott

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1994
Sir Clive W.J. Granger Endowed Chair in Econometrics, Professor
Research Groups: Econometrics
Research Interests: Econometric theory, forecasting, energy economics

Itzik Fadlon

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2015
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Public Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics
Research Interests: Public finance, health economics, and labor economics

Melissa Famulari

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1987
Professor of Teaching
Research Groups: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics
Research Interests: Economics of education and learning

Alexander Gelber

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Labor Economics, Public Economics
Research Interests: Social insurance, taxation, labor supply, retirement

Josh Graff Zivin

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1998
Professor
Research Groups: Development Economics, Environment and Resource Economics, Labor Economics, Political Economics, Public Economics, Health Economics
Research Interests: Innovation, economics of pollution, human capital, climate change, public policy

Aram Grigoryan

Ph.D., Duke University, 2022
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Co-Director of Instruction
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory
Research Interests: Market design, matching theory

James D. Hamilton

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1983
Robert F. Engle Endowed Chair in Econometrics, Professor
Research Groups: Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Finance
Research Interests: Economic fluctuations

Juan Herreño

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2020
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: Macroeconomics
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, monetary economics

Clemence Idoux

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Assistant Professor

Research Groups: Labor Economics

Research Interests: Labor economics, economics of education

Mark Jacobsen

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007
Professor
Research Groups: Environment and Resource Economics, Industrial Organization
Research Interests: Energy economics, transportation, climate change

Nir Jaimovich

Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2004
Anonymous Family Chancellor Endowed Chair in Macroeconomics, Professor
Research Groups: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics, International Economics
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, labor economics

Sara Lowes

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2017
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: Development Economics, Political Economics
Research Interests: Culture, institutions, gender

Xinwei Ma

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2019
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: Econometrics
Research Interests: Non/Semiparametric econometrics, causal inference, program evaluation

Katherine Meckel

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2015
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Public Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics
Research Interests: Anti-poverty transfers, health outcomes

Marc Muendler

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002
Professor, Department Chair
Research Groups: Development Economics, International Economics, Macroeconomics
Research Interests: International trade, foreign investment and multinational enterprises, productivity estimation, information economics

Karthik Muralidharan

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2007
Tata Chancellor's Endowed Professorship in Economics, Professor
Research Groups: Development Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics, Political Economics
Research Interests: Education, health, social protection programs, state capacity, field experiments

Paul Niehaus

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2009
Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair in Economics, Professor
Research Groups: Development Economics, Political Economics, Behavioral/Experimental Economics
Research Interests: The design, implementation, and impact of anti-poverty programs; large-scale experimentation

Giacomo Rondina

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
Associate Professor of Teaching, Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies
Research Groups: Macroeconomics
Research Interests: Macroeconomic theory, international macroeconomics

Denis Shishkin

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral/Experimental Economics
Research Interests: Information economics, mechanism design, information design

Yixiao Sun

Ph.D., Yale University, 2002
Professor
Research Groups: Econometrics, Finance
Research Interests: Econometrics, causal inference, machine learning

Allan Timmermann

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1992
Professor
Research Groups: Econometrics, Finance
Research Interests: Predictability of stock returns, forecasting methods, structural breaks in time series, performance evaluation for mutual funds and pension funds

Isabel Trevino

Ph.D., New York University, 2014
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory
Research Interests: Information economics, game theory, choice-process data

Fabian Trottner

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
Research Interests: International trade, labor demand and income inequality, structural change and growth

Emanuel Vespa

Ph.D., New York University, 2012
Professor of the Research Groups, Faculty Director of Student Advising
Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory
Research Interests: Mistakes in decision-making, information processing, determinants of cooperation

Tom Vogl

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Development Economics, Health Economics, Political Economics
Research Interests: Development, demography, health, human capital, political economy

Joel Watson

Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1992
Professor
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Law & Economics, Political Economics, Environment and Resource Economics
Research Interests: Game theoretic foundations and analysis of contractual settings, with applications in labor/macro, environmental, international, and law

Johannes Wieland

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2013
Distinguished Endowed Chair in Macroeconomics and Public Finance, Associate Professor
Research Groups: Macroeconomics, International Economics, Finance
Research Interests: Monetary economics, international economics, economic history, household finance

Steve Pak Yeung Wu

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2020
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: International Economics, Macroeconomics, Finance
Research Interests: International macroeconomics

Kaspar Wuthrich

Ph.D., University of Bern, 2015
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Econometrics
Research Interests: Quantile methods, iv methods, difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods, mL methods for prediction and inference, inference in experiments, detecting p-hacking and publication bias

Ying Zhu

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: Econometrics
Research Interests: High-dimensional estimation and Inference, Nonasymptotic Statistics, Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods, panel data analysis, integration of economic models, machine learning, and operations research