49 faculty and 40 courses in Economics at University of Notre Dame.
- Robert C. Johnson, Brian and Jeannelle Brady Associate Professor h-index 48
Notable: “Accounting for intermediates: Production sharing and trade in value added” (2011) · 1,742 citations
- William Evans, Keough-Hesburgh Professor h-index 43
In applied microeconomics and he has worked on topics in labor economics, the economics of education, public finance, and health economics. He is a faculty affiliate of both the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Abdul Latif J
Notable: “Finishing High School and Starting College: Do Catholic Schools Make a Difference?” (1995) · 703 citations
- David Phillips, Research Professor h-index 38
Urban geography and poverty, public transit, criminal justice, and housing subsidies. He studies these topics using field experiments and quasi-experimental methods. Education Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2012 M.A., Georgetown Univ
Notable: “Labour supply and taxes” (2008) · 201 citations
- Rebecca Thornton, Professor and Associate Chair h-index 37
Es on health, education, and gender. Across these topics, her work addresses core issues within Economics, including the role of subjective beliefs in decision-making and how social networks influence behavior and beliefs. Dr. Thornton has
Notable: “Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species” (2012) · 1,296 citations
- Melissa S. Kearney, Gilbert F. Schaefer Professor of Economics h-index 34
Es on domestic policy issues, especially issues related to social policy, poverty, inequality, and the economics of the family. Her work has been published in leading academic journals and has been frequently cited in the popular press. She
Notable: “Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists” (2008) · 2,403 citations
- Christiane Baumeister, Lambert Family Professor h-index 34
Es on the dynamics of energy markets and the transmission of monetary policy. Much of her recent work is concerned with Bayesian inference in structural vector autoregressive models and the measurement of economic conditions at high frequen
Notable: “Structural Interpretation of Vector Autoregressions with Incomplete Identification: Revisiting the Role of Oil Supply and Demand Shocks” (2019) · 866 citations
- Lakshmi Iyer, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India” (2005) · 1,275 citations
- Joseph P. Kaboski, David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor h-index 29
Es on growth, development, and international economics. He has published scholarly articles in many journals, and, in 2012, he was awarded the prestigious Frisch Medal, given biannually for the best paper in Econometrica over the previous f
Notable: “Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors” (2011) · 984 citations
- Jeffrey Campbell, Frances D. Rasmus and Jerome A. Castellini Professor h-index 26
Notable: “Macroeconomic Effects of Federal Reserve Forward Guidance” (2012) · 701 citations
- Eric Sims, William J. and Dorothy K. O'Neill Professor and Chair h-index 25
Es on business cycles and monetary and fiscal policies. His research has been published in the American Economic Review , the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics , the Journal of Monetary Economics , the Review of Economics and Statis
Notable: “Uncertainty and Economic Activity: Evidence from Business Survey Data” (2013) · 1,022 citations
- James Sullivan, Professor h-index 25
Notable: “Household Surveys in Crisis” (2015) · 524 citations
- Jeff Biddle, Professor of the Practice h-index 25
The intellectual history of economics, and his work in that area has been published in several articles and books. His current research in that field focuses on the development of empirical research methods in economics in the twentieth
Notable: “Beauty and the Labor Market” (1993) · 718 citations
- Kasey Buckles, Quinn and Jean Stepan Family College Professor; Director of Graduate Studies h-index 19
The economics of the family, economic demography, and economic history. Her recent work has focused on the relationship between economic conditions and fertility, and on understanding the U.S.'s fertility decline. She is also collab
Notable: “Geographic Variation In The Appropriate Use Of Cesarean Delivery” (2006) · 207 citations
- Daniel Hungerman, Professor h-index 18
Notable: “The Church versus the Mall: What Happens When Religion Faces Increased Secular Competition?*” (2008) · 259 citations
- Christian Matthes, Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Calculating the Natural Rate of Interest: A Comparison of Two Alternative Approaches” (2015) · 129 citations
- Taryn Dinkelman, Associate Professor h-index 17
Notable: “The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa” (2011) · 1,116 citations
- Benjamin Pugsley, Robert and Irene Bozzone Associate Professor h-index 17
Macroeconomics, firm dynamics, and entrepreneurship. In particular, Benjamin studies the behavior of young and small firms and their unique role in shaping aggregate economic conditions. His research on small business formation and
Notable: “What Do Small Businesses Do?” (2011) · 428 citations
- Kirk Doran, Associate Professor h-index 17
Es on issues in labor economics, innovation economics, and international migration, with a particular focus on human capital complementarities. His work has examined the implications of large migrations of top scientists on the productivity
Notable: “The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians*” (2012) · 365 citations
- Christopher Cronin, Associate Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Biochemical correlates of personality traits in normals: An exploratory study” (1983) · 112 citations
- Ethan Lieber, Dillon Hall Associate Professor h-index 15
Notable: “How the Reformulation of OxyContin Ignited the Heroin Epidemic” (2018) · 240 citations
- Thomas A. Gresik, Professor h-index 14
Notable: “The Taxing Task of Taxing Transnationals” (2001) · 228 citations
- Cesar Sosa-Padilla, Associate Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Debt Dilution and Sovereign Default Risk” (2016) · 145 citations
- Michael Pries, Professor; Associate Dean for the Social Sciences h-index 12
Es on the amplification and persistence of shocks to the labor market and on cross-country differences in labor market performance. He has published in the Journal of Political Economy , the Review of Economic Studies , the Review of Econom
Notable: “Hiring Policies, Labor Market Institutions, and Labor Market Flows” (2005) · 210 citations
- Kali Rath, Professor h-index 12
Game theory, microeconomics, and mathematical economics. Education Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1992 M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1988 Home About People Faculty Faculty Publications Concurrent Faculty Emeriti Graduate Student
Notable: “A direct proof of the existence of pure strategy equilibria in games with a continuum of players” (1992) · 125 citations
- Robert Collinson, Wilson Family LEO Assistant Professor h-index 11
Notable: “How Do Changes in Housing Voucher Design Affect Rent and Neighborhood Quality?” (2018) · 94 citations
- Marinho Bertanha, Associate Professor h-index 11
Notable: “External Validity in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs” (2019) · 110 citations
- Evan Mast, Assistant Professor h-index 10
Housing markets and place-based policies. His work has been published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics , Review of Economics and Statistics , and Regional Science and Urban Economics . Education Ph.D., Stanford University
Notable: “Local Effects of Large New Apartment Buildings in Low-Income Areas” (2021) · 102 citations
- Heitor S. Pellegrina, Patrick J. O'Malley III & Christine A. O'Malley Associate Professor h-index 9
Trade and development, with a focus on agricultural markets and natural resources. His research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy , the Journal of Development Economics , and the Journal of International Economics .
Notable: “Soybean Development: The Impact of a Decade of Agricultural Change on Urban and Economic Growth in Mato Grosso, Brazil” (2015) · 79 citations
- Jane Ryngaert, Rev. John A. O'Brien Assistant Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Do You Know that I Know that You Know…? Higher-Order Beliefs in Survey Data” (2021) · 111 citations
- Maciej H. Kotowski, Gilbert F. Schaefer Associate Professor h-index 9
Notable: “First‐price auctions with budget constraints” (2020) · 25 citations
- Patrick Turner, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Optimizing Engagement in Behavioral Parent Training: Progress Toward a Technology-Enhanced Treatment Model” (2020) · 37 citations
- Eva Dziadula, Teaching Professor h-index 7
Es on the area of migration choices and immigrant assimilation in the United States, specifically focusing on marriage, divorce, fertility, and citizenship acquisition. Moreover, she studies policy impacts on the undocumented immigrant popu
Notable: “Gender preference and age at arrival among Asian immigrant mothers in the US” (2016) · 14 citations
- Zachary Stangebye, Quinn and Jean Stepan Associate Professor h-index 6
Es on international financial crises originating in sovereign debt markets, with a particular emphasis on coordination failures across time. Education Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2015 M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2012 B.S., Univ
Notable: “Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises, Revisited” (2022) · 18 citations
- Jeremy Majerovitz, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Es on macroeconomics and development, with a particular interest in firm dynamics, misallocation, and financial frictions. His work blends theory and empirics to estimate models of firm behavior and study counterfactuals. His papers have be
Notable: “Childhood Environment and Gender Gaps in Adulthood” (2016) · 113 citations
- Davin Raiha, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Durable Policy, Political Accountability, and Active Waste” (2017) · 23 citations
- Mary Kate Batistich, Assistant Research Professor h-index 3
Es on domestic poverty, including its connection to homelessness, crime, labor markets, and health care. Education Ph.D., Purdue University, 2020 M.S., Purdue University, 2016 B.A., University of Notre Dame, 2012 Home About People Faculty F
Notable: “Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s” (2019) · 19 citations
- Victoria Barone, Assistant Professor h-index 2
At the intersection of public, health, and labor economics. Her research studies the optimal design of paid sick leave systems and the origin and unfolding of the opioid epidemic. At Notre Dame, she teaches Intermediate Microeconomics. Educ
Notable: “The Opioid Epidemic: Causes and Consequences” (2021) · 8 citations
- Cora Bennett, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 1
Notable: “Impact of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) Regimen on Adherence and Risk of Hospitalization in Veterans with HIV/AIDS” (2013) · 7 citations
- Lauren Schechter, Assistant Research Professor h-index 1
- Adrienne Judson, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Andrew Ferdowsian, Assistant Professor
Notable: “Build-to-Order: Endogenous Supply in Centralized Mechanisms” (2025)
- Christopher Mills, Wilson Family LEO Assistant Professor
Es on topics in labor and public economics. Chris uses experiments and linked administrative data to study and improve service delivery, with an interest in human-algorithm interaction and investments in children and families. He completed
- Enrique Seira Bejarano, Joe and Deborah Loughrey Professor
Es on development economics, democracy, credit markets, and the judicial system. His current interests center on democratic backsliding and policies to prevent it, improving the functioning of courts and justice systems in developing countr
- Forrest Spence, Associate Teaching Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Jonathan Tebes, Assistant Research Professor
- JoonHwan Cho, Assistant Professor
- Jooyoung Cha, Assistant Professor
Es on econometrics, especially high-dimensional methods, machine learning, and causal inference. One of her recent projects studies inference for local projections with many covariates. Education Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2025 M.A., Seo
- Matthias Hoelzlein, Assistant Professor
- Yijun Liu, Assistant Professor
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.