Faculty, Lecturers, and Affiliates Profiles

Faculty

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

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2000
Provost, Seventh College; Teaching Professor
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 Teaching Professor, Vice Chair of Undergrad Education
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, Vice Chair of Academic Personnel
Research Groups: Labor Economics
Research Interests: Labor economics, economics of education, immigration, technological change
Prashant Bharadwaj
Ph.D., Yale University, 2009
Professor and Placement Director
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
Associate 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: Econometrics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Public Economics
Research Interests: Environmental valuation, climate change, environment and development, fisheries
Jeffrey Clemens

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
Professor, CEPA Director
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, Faculty Co-Director of Instruction
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
Teaching Professor
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 Teaching Professor, 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, Distinguished 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
Associate Professor, Faculty Director of Student Advising
Research Groups: Development Economics, Political Economics
Research Interests: Culture, institutions, gender
Xinwei Ma

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

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2015
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies
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
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 Teaching Professor
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
Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory
Research Interests: Mistakes in decision-making, information processing, determinants of cooperation
Suhas Vijaykumar
Ph.D., MIT, 2023
Assistant Professor
Research Groups: Econometrics
Research Interests: Econometrics, Policy Analysis, Experimental Design, Machine Learning Theory
Tom Vogl
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
Professor, Department Chair
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, 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
Ying Zhu
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Associate 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

Emeritus Faculty

James Andreoni
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986
Professor Emeritus
Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Public Economics
Research Interests: Altruism, charitable giving, experimental economics, decision making, law and economics
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 Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Macroeconomics
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Neoclassical Theory of the Firm, Convergence of Linear Systems with Alternative Lag Patterns
Vincent P. Crawford
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976
Professor Emeritus
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral/Experimental Economics
Research Interests: Microeconomic theory, behavioral and experimental economics
Robert F. Engle
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1969
Professor Emeritus, & 2003 Nobel Laureate
Research Groups: Econometrics, Finance
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
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
Professor Emeritus
Research Groups: Development Economics, Finance, Health Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Public Economics
Research Interests: Taxes and corporate dividend policy, choice of personal tax base, taxes and development
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 Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory
Research Interests: Choice under uncertainty, alternative models of risk preferences and beliefs
Garey Ramey
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987
Professor Emeritus
Research Groups: Macroeconomics
Research Interests: Fiscal policy, business cycles, time use
Valerie A. Ramey
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987
Professor Emerita
Research Groups: Macroeconomics
Research Interests: Trends in time use, leisure, home production, government spending, inventories
James E. Rauch
Ph.D., Yale University, 1985
Professor Emeritus
Research Groups: Development Economics, International Economics, Labor Economics
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship, international economics, development economics, industrial organization
Joel Sobel

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Professor Emeritus
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral/Experimental Economics
Research Interests: Game theory
Ross Starr
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1972
Professor Emeritus
Research Groups: Finance, Macroeconomics, Microeconomic Theory
Research Interests: General equilibrium theory, foundations of monetary theory, non-convex economies, liquidity of financial markets

Adjunct Faculty

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

Affiliated Faculty

Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León
Affiliate
Ph.D., Finance, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
Assistant Professor, Rady School of Management
Research Groups: Finance, Political Economics
Research Interests: Equitable finance, corporate and household finance
Joseph Engelberg
Affiliate
Ph.D. (Finance), Northwestern University, 2009
Professor, Rady School of Management
Research Groups: Finance
Research Interests: Asset pricing, behavioral finance information diffusion, media, networks
Kyle Handley
Affiliate
Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011
Associate Professor, GPS
Research Groups: International Economics
Research Interests: Iinternational trade, investment, uncertainty and firm employment dynamics
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
Gaurav Khanna
Affiliate
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2016
Associate Professor, GPS
Research Groups: Development Economics, International Economics, Labor 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 Groups: Development Economics, Finance, Law & Economics, Public Economics
Research Interests: Household finance in developing economies, corporate finance, corporate governance, business groups, family business, economic development of southeast asia
Lawrence D. W. Schmidt
Affiliate
Ph.D., University of California San Diego, 2015
Associate Professor, Rady School of Management
Research Groups: Finance, Labor Economics, Macroeconomics
Research Interests: Finance, macroeconomics, labor economics, human capital, technological change

Lecturers

Maria Candido

Ph. D., University of California, San Diego, 1998

Lecturer

Research Groups: Econometrics, Finance, Macroeconomics

Research Interests: Econometrics, Finance, Macroeconomics
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
Sara Esfahani
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2018
Lecturer
Research Interests: Macro Development and Growth
Katarina Fedorov
Ph.D., Boston University, 2025
Lecturer
Research Interests: Gender, Labor, and Economic History
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
Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2004
Lecturer
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory
Research Interests: Microeconomics, game theory
Stephen Ross
Lecturer
Emily Tang
Ph.D., UC San Diego
Lecturer
Research Interests: Labor Economics, Public Economics