37 faculty and 0 courses in Economics at University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Daniel Martin, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 61
- Christopher Costello, Professor of Resource Economics h-index 58
- 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
- H. E. (Ted) Frech, III, Professor of Economics and Technology Management h-index 40
- Peter Kuhn, Distinguished Professor of Economics h-index 31
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
- 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
- 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
- Rod Garratt, Professor of Economics h-index 20
- Aashish Mehta, Associate Professor of Global & International Studies h-index 17
- Jason Somerville, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 12
- Alisa Tazhitdinova, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 8
- Bree Lang, Teaching Professor of Economics h-index 8
- Antony Millner, Associate Professor of Economics, Director of Graduate Studies
- Cheng-Zhong Qin, Professor of Economics
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
- David Silver, Assistant Professor
- 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
- Douglas Steigerwald, Professor of Economics
- Erik Eyster, Professor of Economics, Department Chair
- Finn Kydland, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Nobel Laureate (2004)
- Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare, Associate Professor of Economics
- Ignacio Esponda, Professor of Economics, Department Vice Chair
- Javier Birchenall, Associate Professor of Economics
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
- Jeffrey Yang, Assistant Professor of Economics
Behavioral/experimental economics and microeconomic theory.
- John Hartman, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Kathy Baylis, Professor of Agricultural/Resource Economics
- Kyle Meng, Associate Professor of Economics
- 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
- Mitchell Hoffman, Professor of Economics
- Olivier Deschenes, Professor of Economics, Department Vice Chair
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
- Peter Rupert, Professor of Economics
- Shelly Lundberg, Distinguished Professor of Economics
- Simon Margolin, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Ted Bergstrom, Distinguished Professor of Economics
- Youssef Benzarti, Associate Professor of Economics
- Yueyuan Ma, 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 2026-07-01.