27 faculty and 53 courses in Economics at San Diego State University.
- Joseph Sabia, Professor h-index 41
Notable: “WHEN DO SHELTER‐IN‐PLACE ORDERS FIGHT COVID‐19 BEST? POLICY HETEROGENEITY ACROSS STATES AND ADOPTION TIME” (2020) · 279 citations
- Kangoh Lee, Professor h-index 17
Es on applied microeconomics, including public/urban economics and risk and uncertainty. Visit his website for more information. Department of Economics 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA Nasatir
Notable: “Risk Aversion and Self-Insurance-cum-Protection” (1998) · 80 citations
- Jennifer Imazeki, Professor h-index 15
Es on the economics of K-12 education, including school finance reform, adequacy, and teacher labor markets. She has worked on several projects to encourage active learning in economics, particularly using technology, and writes about teach
Notable: “Teacher salaries and teacher attrition” (2004) · 273 citations
- Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Assistant Professor h-index 13
Es on the interactions between public policy and human decision-making regarding criminality and risky health behaviors. His ongoing projects focus on pretextual stop reforms, Oregon’s drug decriminalization law, juvenile violence occurring
Notable: “WHEN DO SHELTER‐IN‐PLACE ORDERS FIGHT COVID‐19 BEST? POLICY HETEROGENEITY ACROSS STATES AND ADOPTION TIME” (2020) · 279 citations
- Ryan Abman, Associate Professor h-index 13
Environmental and natural resource economics, applied econometrics, political economy, economics of deforestation and conservation policies. His current research examines the role of local politics and institutions in deforestation
Notable: “Does Free Trade Increase Deforestation? The Effects of Regional Trade Agreements” (2019) · 85 citations
- Hisham Foad, Associate Professor h-index 8
Es on the interactions between the movements of capital, goods, and people across national borders. Recent publications look at the effects of border walls on crime and how birthright citizenship affects migrant incentives. He has taught a
Notable: “FDI and immigration: a regional analysis” (2011) · 64 citations
- Jacob Penglase, Associate Professor h-index 8
Es on measuring poverty and individual well-being. His past work has examined consumption inequality among children in the context of child fostering in Malawi. More recent research studied the relationship between poverty and household siz
Notable: “The impact of the COVID-19 recession on Mexican households: evidence from employment and time use for men, women, and children” (2022) · 48 citations
- Quazi Shahriar, Professor h-index 8
Notable: “The Buy-it-now Option, Risk Aversion, and Impatience in an Empirical Model of eBay Bidding” (2006) · 29 citations
- Clark Lundberg, Associate Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Does Free Trade Increase Deforestation? The Effects of Regional Trade Agreements” (2019) · 85 citations
- Ed Balsdon, Associate Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Intergenerational conflict and the political economy of school spending” (2004) · 97 citations
- Yang Liang, Associate Professor h-index 4
Public policy analysis across the fields of health, labor, and international economics. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Health Economics , the Journal of Applied Econometrics , the Journal o
Notable: “The more walkable, the more livable? -- can urban attractiveness improve urban vitality?” (2022) · 32 citations
- Hao Fe, Associate Professor h-index 3
Child development, education policy, the economics of crime, social networks, and health economics. Her recent project implements a newly developed identification strategy to estimate the effect of children’s time allocation on thei
Notable: “How bad is crime for business? Evidence from consumer behavior” (2022) · 55 citations
- Eduardo Polo Muro, Lecturer h-index 3
Notable: “Too afraid to vote? The effects of COVID-19 on voting behaviour” (2021) · 57 citations
- Cristina Pintado-Riesco, Lecturer
- Daniel Mazzone, Lecturer
- Elena Prado Lopez, Lecturer
- Iddoosaa Banae, Lecturer
- Jedediah Baker, Lecturer
- Julia Li Zhu, Assistant Professor
Es on the causes and effects of high-skilled immigration, labor market institutions and inequality, local impacts of immigration enforcement policies, climate change and migration, attitude formation towards immigrants and racial minorities
- Mark Cullivan, Lecturer
- Mike Hilmer, Professor Emeritus (FERP)
- Robert Gordon, Lecturer
- Scott McGann, Lecturer
- Thiago de Lucena, Assistant Professor
- Tia Hilmer, Professor
- Wayne McClellan, Lecturer
- Yue Deng, Lecturer
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.