37 faculty and 0 courses in Economics at University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Christopher Costello, Professor of Resource Economics h-index 58
Notable: “Rebuilding Global Fisheries” (2009) · 2,199 citations
- Andrew Plantinga, Professor of Natural Resource Economics and Policy h-index 52
Es on the Economics of Land Use, Climate Change, and Forests. Particular emphasis is given to the development of methods for econometrically modeling land-use decisions, the analysis of environmental policies that affect private land-use de
Notable: “The future of food from the sea” (2020) · 873 citations
- Kathy Baylis, Professor of Agricultural/Resource Economics h-index 42
Notable: “The Effectiveness of Payments for Environmental Services” (2017) · 508 citations
- Finn Kydland, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Nobel Laureate (2004) h-index 37
Notable: “Rules Rather than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans” (1977) · 7,862 citations
- Olivier Deschenes, Professor of Economics, Department Vice Chair h-index 36
Ed on estimating the impacts of climate change on human health and economic productivity in the U.S. and around the world using historical data. His ongoing work examines the economic and environmental effects of energy transitions, the rel
Notable: “The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather” (2007) · 1,291 citations
- Peter Kuhn, Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 36
Discrimination, turnover costs, China's labor markets, and the role of the internet as a labor market matchmaker. His research has been funded by the NSF, NIH and Ford Foundation, among others. He is a Research Associate of the National
Notable: “Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?” (2013) · 382 citations
- Peter Rupert, Professor of Economics h-index 26
Notable: “Theory, measurement and calibration of macroeconomic models” (2007) · 240 citations
- Kelly Bedard, Professor of Economics h-index 25
Es largely on the Economics of Education and Health, including influential studies of the effects of military service on health, determinants of gender test score gaps among children in OECD countries, and the determinants of obesity in pop
Notable: “Unhealthy assimilation: Why do immigrants converge to American health status levels?” (2006) · 820 citations
- Kyle Meng, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 23
Notable: “Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate” (2011) · 759 citations
- Heather Royer, Professor of Economics h-index 23
Es primarily on Health Economics. Her current research focuses on trying to disentangle the causal effect of education on health and fertility. She also has recently become interested in how information and incentives may affect health beha
Notable: “The Effect of Female Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth” (2011) · 516 citations
- H. E. (Ted) Frech, III, Professor of Economics and Technology Management h-index 21
Notable: “The Competitive Effects of Vertical Agreements” (2016) · 145 citations
- Rod Garratt, Professor of Economics h-index 20
Notable: “The missing links: A global study on uncovering financial network structures from partial data” (2017) · 144 citations
- Antony Millner, Associate Professor of Economics, Director of Graduate Studies h-index 19
Notable: “Reflections” (2014) · 205 citations
- Ted Bergstrom, Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 18
Notable: “Log-concave probability and its applications” (2004) · 1,098 citations
- Douglas Steigerwald, Professor of Economics h-index 17
Notable: “Asymptotic Bias for Quasi-Maximum-Likelihood Estimators in Conditional Heteroskedasticity Models” (1997) · 185 citations
- Aashish Mehta, Associate Professor of Global & International Studies h-index 17
Notable: “Deindustrialization? A global perspective” (2016) · 111 citations
- Daniel Martin, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 16
Notable: “Relation of the therapeutic alliance with outcome and other variables: A meta-analytic review.” (2000) · 3,270 citations
- Erik Eyster, Professor of Economics, Department Chair h-index 16
Notable: “Cursed Equilibrium” (2005) · 409 citations
- Mitchell Hoffman, Professor of Economics h-index 16
Notable: “The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals *” (2015) · 280 citations
- Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 13
Notable: “Interpreting Regression Discontinuity Designs with Multiple Cutoffs” (2016) · 207 citations
- Cheng-Zhong Qin, Professor of Economics h-index 13
Es on microeconomics, game theory, and industrial organization. His recent work concerns altruism and cooperation, stability and manipulation in matching problems, unifications of bargaining solutions and bargaining with non-convexity, and
Notable: “Endogenous Formation of Cooperation Structures” (1996) · 79 citations
- Youssef Benzarti, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 12
Notable: “What Goes Up May Not Come Down: Asymmetric Incidence of Value-Added Taxes” (2020) · 172 citations
- Ignacio Esponda, Professor of Economics, Department Vice Chair h-index 12
Notable: “Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection” (2008) · 167 citations
- Jason Somerville, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 12
Notable: “Modeling Risk Aversion in Economics” (2018) · 143 citations
- Javier Birchenall, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 10
In Macroeconomics, especially Disease and Economic Development, Labor Market Mismatch, and Aggregation. Occasionally, he ventures into other areas with the help of graduate students and colleagues. You can find the classes he is current
Notable: “Agricultural productivity, structural change, and economic growth in post-reform China” (2013) · 191 citations
- David Silver, Assistant Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Songs and Storytelling: Bringing Health Messages to Life in Uganda” (2001) · 51 citations
- Alisa Tazhitdinova, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 8
Notable: “Do only tax incentives matter? Labor supply and demand responses to an unusually large and salient tax break” (2020) · 36 citations
- Bree Lang, Teaching Professor of Economics h-index 8
Notable: “Pandemics, Protests, and Firearms” (2020) · 36 citations
- John Hartman, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 7
Notable: “LETTING DOWN THE TEAM? SOCIAL EFFECTS OF TEAM INCENTIVES” (2015) · 135 citations
- Yueyuan Ma, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 6
Notable: “Skill complementarities and returns to higher education: Evidence from college enrollment expansion in China” (2017) · 67 citations
- Dick Startz, Distinguished Professor of Economics
Es largely on applying Econometric techniques to understanding policy relevant Economic issues. In addition to a long-standing research agenda in empirical Macroeconomics, Startz also writes on empirical issues in the Economics of education
- Jeffrey Yang, Assistant Professor of Economics
Behavioral/experimental economics and microeconomic theory.
- Laura Murphy, Assistant Professor of Economics
Lie in Macroeconomics and Household Finance. Her work combines rich micro data—primarily from credit bureau records—with heterogeneous agent models to study how household financial decisions shape and respond to macroeconomic phenomena. She
- Matthew Lang, Teaching Professor of Economics
- Max Farrell, Associate Professor, Mellichamp Chair Mind and Machine Economics
- Shelly Lundberg, Distinguished Professor of Economics
- Simon Margolin, Assistant Professor of Economics
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.