50 faculty and 40 courses in Economics & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor h-index 162
Notable: “The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation” (2001) · 8,283 citations
- Olivier Blanchard, Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 111
Notable: “An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output” (2002) · 2,892 citations
- Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics h-index 104
Notable: “How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates?” (2004) · 10,584 citations
- David H. Autor, Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor h-index 90
Notable: “The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration” (2003) · 5,859 citations
- Josh Angrist, Ford Professor of Economics h-index 87
Notable: “Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables” (1996) · 4,221 citations
- Jonathan Gruber, Ford Professor of Economics; Department Head h-index 83
Notable: “The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year*” (2012) · 1,656 citations
- Drew Fudenberg, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics h-index 80
Notable: “The Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Discounting or with Incomplete Information” (1986) · 2,411 citations
- Victor Chernozhukov, Ford International Professor of Economics h-index 78
Notable: “Double/debiased machine learning for treatment and structural parameters” (2017) · 2,488 citations
- Jerry Hausman, John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics h-index 77
Notable: “Specification Tests in Econometrics” (1978) · 18,460 citations
- Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics h-index 76
Notable: “A Simple Model of Herd Behavior” (1992) · 6,566 citations
- Paul L. Joskow, Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 75
Industrial organization, energy and environmental economics, competition policy, and government regulation of industry. He is a past-president of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, a distinguished fellow of the Industrial Organi
Notable: “Contract duration and relationship-specific investments: Empirical evidence from coal markets” (1987) · 959 citations
- Ricardo Caballero, Ford International Professor of Economics h-index 74
Notable: “Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan” (2008) · 1,540 citations
- Whitney Newey, Ford Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 70
Notable: “A Simple, Positive Semi-Definite, Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Matrix” (1987) · 17,141 citations
- Richard Schmalensee, Professor of Economics and Management Emeritus h-index 67
Notable: “Do Markets Differ Much” (1984) · 1,060 citations
- Amy Finkelstein, John & Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics h-index 67
Public finance and health economics. Her research focuses on market failures and government intervention in insurance markets, and on the economics of healthcare delivery. From she served as co-Director of the Public Economics Program at the Nati
Notable: “The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year*” (2012) · 1,656 citations
- Peter Diamond, Institute Professor and Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 62
Notable: “Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium” (1982) · 1,970 citations
- Bengt Holmström, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 56
Notable: “Moral Hazard and Observability” (1979) · 8,523 citations
- Glenn Ellison, Gregory K. Palm (1970) Professor of Economics h-index 48
Notable: “Risk Taking by Mutual Funds as a Response to Incentives” (1997) · 2,439 citations
- Parag Pathak, Class of 1922 Professor of Economics h-index 47
Notable: “Short interest, institutional ownership, and stock returns” (2005) · 1,008 citations
- Iván Werning, Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics h-index 46
Notable: “Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?” (2020) · 760 citations
- Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics h-index 43
Econometrics, causal inference, and program evaluation. His methodological research focuses on econometric methods to estimate causal effects, particularly the effects of public policies, such as labor market, education, and health policy interventions
Notable: “Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California’s Tobacco Control Program” (2010) · 5,424 citations
- Drazen Prelec, Professor of Management Science and Economics h-index 40
Notable: “Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation” (1992) · 2,335 citations
- Robert Gibbons, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Applied Economics h-index 40
Notable: “Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm” (2002) · 1,774 citations
- William C. Wheaton, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Urban Studies h-index 40
Notable: “Vacancy, Search, and Prices in a Housing Market Matching Model” (1990) · 744 citations
- Michael Whinston, Professor of Economics and Sloan Fellows Professor of Management h-index 39
Notable: “Multimarket Contact and Collusive Behavior” (1990) · 1,335 citations
- Michael J. Piore, David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus h-index 38
And mass production, between interpretation and analysis in innovation, and between the U.S. and the Franco-Latin approach to work regulation and their impacts on labor market flexibility. These concepts are developed in a number of books and articles includin
Notable: “The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity” (1987) · 4,370 citations
- Stephen Morris, Peter A. Diamond Professor of Economics h-index 37
Notable: “Social Value of Public Information” (2002) · 1,994 citations
- Arnaud Costinot, Ford Professor of Economics h-index 34
Notable: “New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?” (2012) · 1,665 citations
- Dave Donaldson, Class of 1949 Professor of Economics h-index 28
Notable: “Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure” (2018) · 1,562 citations
- Nikhil Agarwal, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics h-index 25
Notable: “Long-term Risk of Acute Diverticulitis Among Patients With Incidental Diverticulosis Found During Colonoscopy” (2013) · 477 citations
- Nancy L. Rose, Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics h-index 24
Notable: “Do Markets Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on US Electric Generation Efficiency” (2007) · 408 citations
- Sara Fisher Ellison, Senior Lecturer in Economics h-index 21
Notable: “Search, Obfuscation, and Price Elasticities on the Internet” (2004) · 406 citations
- Isaiah Andrews, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Economics h-index 18
Notable: “Weak Instruments in Instrumental Variables Regression: Theory and Practice” (2019) · 828 citations
- Tobias Salz, Castle Krob Career Development Associate Professor of Economics h-index 18
Platforms, digital markets, transportation, and artificial intelligence. My research often combines theory with new observational data sources or experiments.
Notable: “Heterogeneity and predictors of the effects of AI assistance on radiologists” (2024) · 159 citations
- Alexander Wolitzky, Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics h-index 17
Notable: “The Economics of Labor Coercion” (2011) · 246 citations
- Muhamet Yildiz, Professor of Economics h-index 17
Notable: “A Structure Theorem for Rationalizability with Application to Robust Predictions of Refinements” (2007) · 200 citations
- Robert M. Townsend, Elizabeth & James Killian Professor of Economics h-index 17
Notable: “Farm size, productivity and returns to scale in agriculture revisited: a case study of wine producers in South Africa” (1998) · 98 citations
- Frank Schilbach, Associate Professor of Economics, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow h-index 16
Notable: “Poverty, depression, and anxiety: Causal evidence and mechanisms” (2020) · 1,184 citations
- Christian Wolf, Rudi Dornbusch Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 14
Notable: “Local Projections and VARs Estimate the Same Impulse Responses” (2021) · 705 citations
- Anna Mikusheva, Edward A. Abdun-Nur (1924) Professor of Economics h-index 12
Notable: “Uniform Inference in Autoregressive Models” (2007) · 203 citations
- Jacob Moscona, 3M Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 10
Notable: “State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century” (2016) · 201 citations
- Nina Roussille, Gordon K. Lister and Donald K. Lister Career Development Assistant Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Worker Beliefs About Outside Options” (2024) · 93 citations
- Ashesh Rambachan, Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Assistant Professor
Primarily in econometrics with a focus on applications of machine learning and AI in economics and causal inference. _I am on leave visiting Stanford's Economics Department and SIEPR for the academic year._
- Benjamin Olken, TEPCO Professor of Economics
Es on development economics, with a particular interest in improving the performance of the public sector in developing countries, including social protection programs, taxation, and quality of governance. He also works on environmental challenges in developin
- David Atkin, Barton L. Weller (1940) Professor of Economics
- Ian Ball, Gary Loveman Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics
- James Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics
Es on how taxation affects the economic decisions of households and firms, particularly those involving saving and portfolio behavior. His recent research has analyzed the determinants of retirement saving, the draw-down of assets after households reach retire
- Jeffrey Harris, Professor of Economics, Emeritus
- Nathaniel Hendren, Ford Professor of Economics
- Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics and Peter de Florez Professor of EECS
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.