Economic Growth Center

FACULTY TEACHING FIELDS AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

JOSEPH ALTONJI, Princeton University 1981
Teaching Fields: Labor economics; econometrics.
Current Research Interests: School choice; the Black-White wealth gap; wage determination; economic links among relatives; econometrics; paid leave from work.

MICHAEL BOOZER, Princeton University 1995
Teaching Fields: Microeconomic theory; econometrics, labor economics.
Current Research Interests: Labor economics; econometrics; economics of schooling.

IRENE BRAMBILLA, Princeton University 2004
Teaching Fields: International trade; empirical industrial organization.
Current Research Interests: International trade, applied microeconomics.

DONALD J. BROWN, Stevens Institute of Technology 1969
Teaching Fields: Economic theory.
Current Research Interests: Econometrics; general equilibrium theory.

EDUARDO ENGEL, Stanford University 1987 (Statistics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1991 (Economics)
Teaching Fields: Macroeconomics; economic policy in Latin America.
Current Research Interests: Macroeconomics (inflation, employment and investment, emphasizing aggregate implications of lumpy micro behavior); competition and regulatory policy (infrastructure concessions, consumer protection); public finance (taxes and income distribution, optimal fiscal policy with government owned natural resources, tax evasion); and applied stochastic modeling (forecasting electoral outcomes).

ROBERT E. EVENSON, University of Chicago 1968
Teaching Fields: Microeconomics; economic development; economics of technology; agricultural development.
Current Research Interests: Agricultural households in developing countries; economics of invention; technical change.

TIMOTHY GUINNANE, Stanford University 1987
Teaching Fields:  Economic history.
Current Research Interests:  Demographic and financial history of Western Europe.

KOICHI HAMADA, Yale University 1965
Teaching Fields: The Japanese economy; international economics.
Current Research Interests: Strategic analysis of international political economy.

DEAN KARLAN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2002
Teaching Fields: Development economics; finance; experimental methodologies.
Current Research Interests: Development economics; behavioral economics; field experiments; political economy.

FABIAN LANGE, University of Chicago 2004
Teaching Fields: Labor economics.
Current Research Interests: Careers of young workers; social returns to education; demographic transition.

GIOVANNI MAGGI, Stanford University 1994
Teaching Fields:  International trade.
Current Research Interests:  International trade; international political economy.

GUSTAV RANIS, Yale University 1956
Current Research Interests: Adjustment and liberalization sequences; balanced growth; the political economy of LDC policy change; decentralization and development; growth and human development.

MARK ROSENZWEIG, Columbia University 1973
Teaching Fields: Economic development.
Current Research Interests: Causes and consequences of economic development; international migration.

T. PAUL SCHULTZ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1966
Current Research Interests: Schooling, health, and mobility in development; income distribution and endogenous household composition; gender inequalities.

T.N. SRINIVASAN, Yale University 1962
Teaching Fields: International trade; economic development; economic theory.
Current Research Interests: Theory of lobbying and rent-seeking; non-market contractual arrangements; multilateral trading system and developing countries; regionalism and multilateralism.

MELISSA TARTARI, University of Pennsylvania 2006
Teaching Fields:  Labor economics.
Current Research Interests:  Labor economics; empirical microeconomics; applied econometrics.

CHRISTOPHER UDRY, Yale University 1991
Teaching Fields: Economic development.
Current Research Interests: Microeconomics of development in Africa.

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