Economics at Bowdoin College

15 faculty and 40 courses in Economics at Bowdoin College.

Faculty

• Erik Nelson, Professor of Economics h-index 31
  Land management, biodiversity conservation and the impacts of climate change on agriculture. He studies the benefits and costs of managing land to enhance or maintain ecosystem service supply as well as setting aside land for biodiv
  Notable: “Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels” (2006) · 2,879 citations
• Rachel Connelly, Bion R. Cram Professor of Economics h-index 24
  Notable: “The Effect of Child Care Costs on Married Women's Labor Force Participation” (1992) · 490 citations
• Guillermo Herrera, Professor of Economics h-index 12
  Professor Herrera’s educational path is mirrored in his research program, which primarily resides at the interface between natural biological systems and the human communities that utilize them; much of his work involves active commun
  Notable: “Prevalence and Spectrum of Germline Mutations of the p53 Gene among Patients with Sarcoma” (1992) · 306 citations
• Martin Abel, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 9
  On development economics, labor economics, and behavioral economics. A specific focus of his research is on studying barriers that women face in the labor market. This includes studying the effect of labor market policies such as
  Notable: “The Value of Reference Letters: Experimental Evidence from South Africa” (2020) · 88 citations
• Stephen Meardon, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 9
  Notable: “SELF-COMMAND IN ADAM SMITH'S THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS” (1996) · 68 citations
• Duman B-Rad, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 8
  Notable: “The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation” (2019) · 508 citations
• Gregory Paul DeCoster, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 8
  Notable: “Evidence of chaos in commodity futures prices” (1992) · 81 citations
• Matthew Botsch, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 8
  Notable: “Learning by lending” (2018) · 71 citations
• Weizheng Lai, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 5
  Notable: “Housing market regulations and strategic divorce propensity in China” (2021) · 22 citations
• Jessica L. LaVoice, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 4
  Public economics, urban economics, and economic history. Her work seeks to understand the role of public policies in shaping long-run neighborhood outcomes, with a specific focus on understanding the relationship between private markets
  Notable: “The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s” (2023) · 25 citations
• Mahdi Ebrahimi Kahou, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 3
  Notable: “Macroprudential policy: A review” (2016) · 82 citations
• Jarron VanCeylon, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 3
  Es on environmental justice, non-market valuation, residential sorting, and public goods. He examines how individuals and communities value environmental amenities, how environmental policies affect disadvantaged groups, and how environment
  Notable: “Distribution of capitalized benefits from land conservation” (2023) · 20 citations
• Zorina Khan, William D. Shipman Professor of Economics h-index 2
  Notable: “La piratería de derechos de autor y el desarrollo: evidencia de los Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX” (2008) · 4 citations
• Daniel F. Stone, Associate Professor & Department Chair, Economics
  Are: microeconomics, behavioral economics, game theory, information and uncertainty, political media and polarization, and socially responsible capitalism. I've written a (non-technical) book on the behavioral economics of affec
• Seeun Park, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Courses

• The Moral Economy ECON 1013
• The Art of the Deal: Commerce and Culture ECON 1018
• Principles of Microeconomics and Quantitative Reasoning ECON 1050
• Economic Literacy ECON 1082
• Using Big Data to Investigate and Suggest Solutions to Economic and Social Problems ECON 1099
• Principles of Microeconomics ECON 1101
• Principles of Macroeconomics ECON 1102
• The Physics and Economics of Energy ECON 1181
• Economic Policy ECON 2001
• The Economics of Art and Culture ECON 2020
• The Economic Development of Japan ECON 2030
• Political Economy of the United States from Revolution to Reconstruction ECON 2143
• International Economics ECON 2201
• Economics of the Public Sector ECON 2210
• Labor and Human Resource Economics ECON 2212
• History of Economic Thought ECON 2213
• Environmental Economics and Policy ECON 2218
• Marxian Political Economy ECON 2221
• Artificial Intelligence and Economics ECON 2225
• Human Resources and Economic Development ECON 2227
• Natural Resource Economics and Policy ECON 2228
• Eatconomics: The Economic Analysis of the Food Industry ECON 2238
• The Economics of Sports ECON 2244
• Economics of the European Union ECON 2304
• The Economics of Information, Uncertainty, and Communication ECON 2323
• Economic History of American Enterprise ECON 2380
• Economics of Money, Banking, and Finance ECON 2409
• Financial Crises ECON 2429
• Microeconomics ECON 2555
• Macroeconomics ECON 2556
• Economic Statistics ECON 2557
• International Trade ECON 3208
• Applied Data Analysis for Economic Research ECON 3277
• Topics in Finance ECON 3302
• Game Theory and Strategic Behavior ECON 3305
• Mathematical Economics ECON 3350
• Behavioral Economic Theory ECON 3355
• Open Economy Macroeconomics ECON 3356
• Computational Economics ECON 3357
• Economic Forecasting ECON 3360

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.