49 faculty and 37 courses in Economics at Brown University.
- Christina Paxson, President of Brown University, Professor of Economics h-index 55
Notable: “The lasting impact of childhood health and circumstance” (2005) · 1,735 citations
- Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Schreiber Family Professor of Economics h-index 55
Es on the impact of global trade and financial linkages on economic fluctuations and growth. Recent Op-eds Project Syndicate: Interdependence Bites Back
Notable: “FDI and economic growth: the role of local financial markets” (2003) · 2,582 citations
- Louis Putterman, Professor of Economics (Research) h-index 54
Notable: “Post-1500 Population Flows and The Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality” (2010) · 668 citations
- Oded Galor, Herbert Goldberger Professor of Economics h-index 50
Notable: “Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond” (2000) · 2,328 citations
- Andrew Foster, George and Nancy Parker Professor of Economics h-index 40
Notable: “Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture” (1995) · 2,039 citations
- Rajiv Vohra, Ford Foundation Professor of Economics h-index 39
Notable: “A Theory of Endogenous Coalition Structures” (1999) · 448 citations
- Gauti Eggertsson, Dupee Family Professor of Economics h-index 36
Notable: “Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy” (2003) · 1,802 citations
- Peter Hull, Professor of Economics h-index 32
Es on developing new methods to robustly estimate causal effects in non-experimental data, measure institutional quality in education and healthcare, and test for inequity in high-stakes decisions. Featured Research 1. Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Meas
Notable: “Revisiting event study designs: robust and efficient estimation” (2022) · 695 citations
- John Friedman, Vascellaro Family Dean, Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 29
Notable: “Measuring the Impacts of Teachers II: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood” (2014) · 1,686 citations
- Roberto Serrano, Harrison S. Kravis University Professor of Economics h-index 29
Notable: “An Economic Index of Riskiness” (2008) · 332 citations
- Matthew Turner, Professor of Economics h-index 28
Notable: “Urban Growth and Transportation” (2012) · 924 citations
- Stelios Michalopoulos, Eastman Professor of Political Economy h-index 28
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Notable: “Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development” (2013) · 938 citations
- Anna Aizer, Maurice R. Greenberg Professor of Economics h-index 28
Notable: “The Gender Wage Gap and Domestic Violence” (2010) · 801 citations
- Brian Knight, Professor of Economics, Director of Undergraduate Studies h-index 27
Notable: “Endogenous Federal Grants and Crowd-out of State Government Spending: Theory and Evidence from the Federal Highway Aid Program” (2002) · 424 citations
- Rafael La Porta, Robert and Nancy Carney Professor of Economics h-index 23
Behavioral finance \ corporate finance \ corporate goverance
Notable: “Law and Finance” (1996) · 2,962 citations
- Susanne Schennach, Professor of Economics h-index 23
- Kenneth Chay, Professor of Economics h-index 21
Notable: “Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market” (2005) · 981 citations
- Pedro Dal Bo, Professor of Economics h-index 21
Notable: “Cooperation under the Shadow of the Future: Experimental Evidence from Infinitely Repeated Games” (2005) · 652 citations
- John Papay, Associate Professor of Education h-index 21
Es on educational inequality and policies that affect teachers and their work. Papay conducts much of his research in collaborative partnerships with policymakers and practitioners. He currently leads the Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts project, a lon
Notable: “How Context Matters in High-Need Schools: The Effects of Teachers’ Working Conditions on Their Professional Satisfaction and Their Students’ Achievement” (2012) · 809 citations
- Dany Bahar, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics h-index 16
Notable: “Neighbors and the evolution of the comparative advantage of nations: Evidence of international knowledge diffusion?” (2013) · 271 citations
- Toru Kitagawa, Professor of Economics, Director of Graduate Studies h-index 16
Notable: “Who Should Be Treated? Empirical Welfare Maximization Methods for Treatment Choice” (2018) · 250 citations
- Geoffroy de Clippel, Professor of Economics, Director of Orlando Bravo Center h-index 15
Notable: “Impartial division of a dollar” (2007) · 103 citations
- Sylvia Kuo, Teaching Professor of Economics h-index 13
Ed on vulnerable elderly nursing home residents, such as the (inappropriate) use of feeding tubes among elderly nursing home patients with advanced cognitive impairment. Brown Affiliations - Economics logo
Notable: “Does Feeding Tube Insertion and Its Timing Improve Survival?” (2012) · 181 citations
- Bryce Steinberg, IJC Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 11
Notable: “Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital” (2017) · 350 citations
- Andriy Norets, Professor of Economics h-index 11
- Kareen Rozen, Professor of Economics, Department Chair h-index 10
Notable: “Rationalising Choice with Multi-self Models” (2013) · 41 citations
- Rachel Friedberg, Teaching Professor of Economics h-index 8
Notable: “The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth” (1995) · 1,119 citations
- Spencer Kwon, Michael Wu Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 8
To understand how people respond to information, and to explore financial and macroeconomic implications. My work uses a variety of methods, including lab experiments, theoretical modeling, and empirical asset pricing.
Notable: “Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory” (2023) · 130 citations
- Matthew Pecenco, Orlando Bravo Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 7
Primarily in labor economics, with much of my work focused on crime, development, and education.
Notable: “The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio” (2021) · 88 citations
- Lorenzo Lagos, Shoukang Lin and Jing Wu Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 6
Labor economics and development economics. I am currently the Shoukang Lin and Jing WuAssistant Professor of Economics at Brown University. I will be on sabbatical as the Hal Varian Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT for the academic year. My CV
Notable: “Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil” (2021) · 87 citations
- Jack Fanning, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 5
Microeconomic theory (I am particularly interested in bargaining theory) and experimental economics.
Notable: “Reputational Bargaining and Deadlines” (2016) · 48 citations
- Alexandre Gaillard, Buchbinder Family Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 5
Notable: “Value Added and Productivity Linkages Across Countries” (2019) · 30 citations
- Neil Thakral, Nancy Donohue and Diane Elam Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 3
Notable: “Daily Labor Supply and Adaptive Reference Points” (2021) · 124 citations
- Teddy Mekonnen, Orlando Bravo Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 2
Es on search, information economics, and mechanism design. You can find my C.V. here.
Notable: “Bayesian comparative statics” (2022) · 8 citations
- Jesse Bruhn, Assistant Professor of Economics and Education h-index 2
Notable: “Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools” (2020) · 4 citations
- Alex Poterack, Steven Rattner Associate Teaching Professor of Economics
- Amy Handlan, Yang Family Assistant Professor of Economics
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- Bobby Pakzad-Hurson, Jonathan M. Nelson Assistant Professor of Economics
- Brad Gibbs, Urry and Comfort Associate Teaching Professor of Economics
- David Weil, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics
- Dev Patel, Peggy and Henry D. Sharpe Jr. Assistant Professor of Economics
With John J. Conlon) Abstract We test for stereotyping—the exaggeration of representative traits—in a high-stakes economic environment. Using both surveys administered among undergraduates at the Ohio State University and large-scale nationally representat
- Elisa Macchi, August Family Assistant Professor of Economics
- Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Dean's Assistant Professor of Economics
In Economic History, Development EconomicsandPolitical Economy, with a focus on Latin America. I am also a Research Fellow of CEPR (Economic History, Political Economy and Preventing Conflict) , the Kiel Insti
- Ivan Kwok, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics
S are applied microeconomics, behavioral economics, and industrial organization.
- Jonathan Roth, Associate Professor of Economics
In econometrics, with a focus on causal inference. I have also worked on topics in labor economics and algorithmic fairness. I am a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow, and have also received research funding from the NSF and NIH. I was previously a senior research
- Kellie Forrester, Associate Teaching Professor of Economics
Macroeconomics, dynamics, and female labor force participation. CV
- Matthew Kraft, Associate Professor of Education
Es on two primary areas: improving the effectiveness of K-12 educators and schools, and examining how education systems can adapt to and address climate change. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles on topics such as teacher labor markets (hiring, pr
- Pablo Ottonello, Thomas J. Watson Jr. Family Professor of Economics
Macroeconomics, International Economics, Finance, Monetary Economics
- Soonwoo Kwon, Groos Family Assistant Professor of Economics
In econometric theory and applied econometrics. I am particularly interested in robust methods, broadly defined. I am on leave from Brown during the 2025–26 academic year. I will be visiting Yale in Fall 2025 and MIT in Spring 2026. You can find my CV her
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