Faculty
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Titan Alon
- Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2018
- Assistant Professor
- Research Interests: Macroeconomics, labor, economic history, and growth
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James Andreoni
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986
- Professor
- Research Interests: Altruism, charitable giving, experimental economics, decision making, law and economics
- Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Public Economics
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Kate Antonovics
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 2000
Provost, Seventh College; Teaching Professor (SLSOE)
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 (LPSOE), Co-Director of Instruction
Research Groups: Labor Economics
Research Interests: Wage determination and discrimination -
Samuel Bazzi
- Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2013
- Associate Professor
- Research Interests: Development, political economics
- Research Groups: Development Economics, Political Economics
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Eli Berman
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1993
Professor
Research Interests: Labor economics, labor demand and technological change, religion, middle east, terrorism and insurgency, fertility, immigration, language
Research Groups: Development Economics, Labor 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 markets, climate change adaptation -
Renee Bowen
Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2008
Professor
Research Groups: Political Economics, Microeconomic Theory, International Economics, Law & Economics
Research Interests: Political economy, microeconomic theory, and international trade -
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
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997
Professor & Chair, Department of Economics
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 Interests: Game theory, mechanism design, market microstructure
Research Groups: Finance, Microeconomic Theory -
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 (SLSOE)
Research Groups: Labor Economics, Health Economics, Public Economics
Research Interests: Economics of education and learning -
Simone Galperti
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2013
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Mechanisms design, contract theory, and behavioral economics
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory -
Alexander Gelber
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Social insurance, taxation, labor supply, retirement
Research Groups: Labor Economics, Public Economics -
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
Research Interests: Market design, matching theory
Research Groups: Microeconomic 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 -
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 Interests: Culture, institutions, gender
- Research Groups: Development Economics, Political Economics
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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
Assistant 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
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, Associate Professor
Research Groups: Development Economics, Political Economics, Behavioral/Experimental Economics
Research Interests: The design, implementation, and impact of anti-poverty programs; large-scale experimentation -
Valerie A. Ramey
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987
Professor
Research Interests: Trends in time use, leisure, home production, government spending, inventories
Research Groups: Macroeconomics -
Giacomo Rondina
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
Associate Teaching Professor (LSOE), Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests: Macroeconomic theory, international macroeconomics
Research Groups: 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 -
Joel Sobel
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Professor
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral/Experimental Economics
Research Interests: Game theory -
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 -
Alexis Akira Toda
Ph.D., Yale University, 2013
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Microeconomic Theory, Finance, Econometrics, Macroeconomics
Research Interests: Power law in economics and finance, mathematical economics, computational economics -
Isabel Trevino
Ph.D., New York University, 2014
Associate Professor
Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Finance, 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
Associate 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
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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 Interests: High-dimensional estimation and Inference, Nonasymptotic Statistics, Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods, panel data analysis, integration of economic models, machine learning, and operations research
Research Groups: Econometrics
Emeritus Faculty
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Richard Attiyeh
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Environment and resource economics, econometrics, public economics -
Vincent P. Crawford
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976
Professor Emeritus & 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, Research Professor, & 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
Professor Emeritus & 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 -
Garey Ramey
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: Fiscal policy, business cycles, time use -
James E. Rauch
Ph.D., Yale University, 1985
Emeritus Professor
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship, international economics, development economics, industrial organization -
Ross Starr
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1972
Professor Emeritus & 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
Professor Emeritus & Research Professor
Research Groups: Finance, Law & Economics, Public Economics
Adjunct Faculty
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Dale Squires
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984
Adjunct Professor, NOAA Southwest Fisheries
Research Interests: Resource economics, fisheries
Research Groups: Environmental and Resource Economics
Affiliated Faculty
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Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León
Affiliate
Ph.D., Finance, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
Assistant Professor, Rady School of Management
Research Interests: Equitable finance, corporate and household finance -
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
Affiliate
Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011
Associate Professor, Rady School of Management
Research Interests: Iinternational trade, investment, uncertainty and firm employment dynamics
Research Groups: International Economics -
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
Lecturers
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Maria Candido
Lecturer -
Darrel Cohen
Lecturer -
Meredith Crane
Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 2017
Lecturer
Research Groups: Public Economics, Macroeconomics -
Yinlin Dai
Ph.D., Clemson University, 2022
Lecturer -
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 Interests: Microeconomics, game theory -
Emily Tang
Lecturer -
Jeff Tayman
Ph.D., Florida State University, 1979
Lecturer
Research Groups: Econometrics, Labor Economics
Research Interests: Forecasting methods and evaluation -
Oana Tocoian
Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2011
Lecturer
Research Groups: Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Public Economics
Research interests: Market competition and entrepreneurship, economic mobility, regulatory and fiscal policy, social safety net
Visiting Scholars
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Yuval Heller
Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2011
Visiting Scholar
Research Groups: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory
Research Interests: Game theory, evolutionary foundation of economic behavior