Faculty, Lecturers, and Affiliates Profiles

Titan Alon

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

Kate Antonovics

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 Interests: Development, political economics
Research Groups: Development Economics, Political Economics

Eli Berman

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

Julian R. Betts

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

Prashant Bharadwaj

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

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 Interests: Environmental valuation, climate change, environment and development, fisheries
Research Groups: Econometrics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Public Economics

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

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

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

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

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

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 Interests: International trade, foreign investment and multinational enterprises, productivity estimation, information economics
Research Groups: Development Economics, International Economics, Macroeconomics

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

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 Interests: Predictability of stock returns, forecasting methods, structural breaks in time series, performance evaluation for mutual funds and pension funds
Research Groups: Econometrics, Finance

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
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, Director of Instruction
Research Interests: Development, demography, health, human capital, political economy
Research Groups: Development Economics, Health Economics, Political Economics

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

James Andreoni

Richard Attiyeh

Ph.D., Yale University 
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Environment and resource economics, econometrics, public economics

Don Bear

Ph.D., Stanford, 1963
Professor Emeritus 
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Neoclassical Theory of the Firm, Convergence of Linear Systems with Alternative Lag Patterns
Research Groups:  Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomics

Vincent P. Crawford

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976
Research Professor
Research Interests: Microeconomic theory, behavioral and experimental economics
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral/Experimental Economics 

Robert F. Engle

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1969
Professor Emeritus, & 2003 Nobelist
Research Interests: Time series econometrics, macroeconomics, energy markets, urban economies and emerging markets as well as the main financial asset classes: equities, currencies, fixed income and derivatives
Research Groups: Econometrics, Finance

Marjorie Flavin

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, especially macro/housing, household consumption, portfolio allocation, and asset pricing

Roger Gordon

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976
Research Professor
Research Interests: Taxes and corporate dividend policy, choice of personal tax base, taxes and development
Research Groups: Development Economics, Finance, Health Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Public Economics

Theodore Groves

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Environmental economics, mechanism design, public finance

Mark J. Machina

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Choice under uncertainty, alternative models of risk preferences and beliefs
Research Groups:  Behavioral/Experimental Economics,  Microeconomic Theory

Garey Ramey

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Fiscal policy, business cycles, time use
Research Groups: Macroeconomics

Valerie A. Ramey

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987
Professor Emerita
Research Interests: Trends in time use, leisure, home production, government spending, inventories
Research Groups: Macroeconomics

James E. Rauch

Ph.D., Yale University, 1985
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship, international economics, development economics, industrial organization
Research Groups: Development Economics, International Economics, Labor Economics 

Joel Sobel

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Research Professor
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral/Experimental Economics
Research Interests: Game theory

Ross Starr

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1972
Research Professor
Research Interests: General equilibrium theory, foundations of monetary theory, non-convex economies, liquidity of financial markets
Research Groups: Finance, Macroeconomics, Microeconomic Theory

Michelle White

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1973
Research Professor
Research Groups: Development Economics, Finance, Law & Economics, Public Economics

Dale Squires

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984
Adjunct Professor, NOAA Southwest Fisheries
Research Interests: Resource economics, fisheries
Research Groups: Environmental and Resource Economics

Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León

Joseph Engelberg

Affiliate
Ph.D. (Finance), Northwestern University, 2009
Professor, Rady School of Management
Research Interests: Asset pricing, behavioral finance information diffusion, media, networks
Research Groups: Finance

Kyle Handley

James Hilger

Affiliate
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Asst. Adjunct Professor, NOAA Southwest Fisheries
Research Interests: Fisheries, non-market valuation, and marketing.

Ruixue Jia

Affiliate
Ph.D., Stockholm University, 2013
Associate Professor, GPS
Research Groups: Political Economics

Craig McIntosh

Affiliate
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Professor, GPS
Research Groups: Development Economics

Dimitri Politis

Affiliate
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990
Professor, Mathematics

Krislert Samphantharak

Affiliate
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003
Associate Professor, GPS
Research Interests: Household finance in developing economies, corporate finance, corporate governance, business groups, family business, economic development of southeast asia
Research Groups: Development Economics, Finance, Law & Economics, Public Economics

Maria Candido

Meredith Crane

Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2017
Lecturer
Research Groups: Public Economics, Macroeconomics

Yinlin Dai

Ph.D., Clemson University, 2022
Lecturer
Research Groups: Labor Economics

Steven Levkoff

Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 2011
Lecturer
Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Econometrics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Finance, Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory 
Research Interests: Modeling of input-output systems, data envelopment analysis, nonparametric estimation, measuring technical efficiency, productivity analysis, predictive analytics

Alyson Ma

Ph.D., UC Davis
Lecturer
Research Groups: International Economics
Research Interests: Health economics, international trade

Herbert Newhouse

Emily Tang

David Torun