Economics at University of Chicago

39 faculty and 0 courses in Economics at University of Chicago.

Faculty

• James J. Heckman, The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Director of Center for the Economics of Human Development h-index 156
  Notable: “Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme” (1997) · 5,521 citations
• John List, The Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Director of the Becker Friedman Institute h-index 102
  Notable: “Redefine statistical significance” (2017) · 2,790 citations
• Michael Greenstone, The Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School h-index 82
  Notable: “The Lancet Commission on pollution and health” (2017) · 4,818 citations
• Michael Kremer, University Professor in Economics and the College and the Harris School of Public Policy; Director of the Development Innovation Lab h-index 80
  Notable: “Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities” (2003) · 2,281 citations
• Lars Peter Hansen, The David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business h-index 75
  Notable: “Large Sample Properties of Generalized Method of Moments Estimators” (1982) · 13,876 citations
• Kevin M. Murphy, The George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics Emeritus h-index 69
  Notable: “Changes in Relative Wages, : Supply and Demand Factors” (1992) · 4,534 citations
• Steve Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus h-index 68
  Notable: “What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World?” (2007) · 2,700 citations
• Harald Uhlig, The Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics and the College h-index 54
  Notable: “What are the effects of monetary policy on output? Results from an agnostic identification procedure” (2005) · 2,333 citations
• Roger B. Myerson, The David L. Pearson Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College h-index 53
  Notable: “Optimal Auction Design” (1981) · 6,120 citations
• Ufuk Akcigit, The Arnold C. Harberger Professor in Economics and the College h-index 52
  Notable: “Transition to Clean Technology” (2016) · 990 citations
• Ali Hortaçsu, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College h-index 49
  Notable: “Matching and Sorting in Online Dating” (2010) · 646 citations
• Magne Mogstad, The Gary S. Becker Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College h-index 47
  Notable: “The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet *” (2015) · 763 citations
• Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, The Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College h-index 45
  Notable: “Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring” (2008) · 2,213 citations
• Robert Shimer, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College h-index 39
  Notable: “The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies” (2005) · 2,787 citations
• Fernando Alvarez, The Charles F. Gray Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College h-index 37
  Notable: “Efficiency, Equilibrium, and Asset Pricing with Risk of Default” (2000) · 772 citations
• Greg Kaplan, Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College h-index 37
  Notable: “Monetary Policy According to HANK” (2018) · 1,347 citations
• Casey Mulligan, Professor in Economics and the College; Director of Initiative on Enabling Choice and Competition in Healthcare h-index 35
  Notable: “The Endogenous Determination of Time Preference” (1997) · 1,373 citations
• Leonardo Bursztyn, The Saieh Family Professor in Economics and the College h-index 35
  Notable: “Understanding Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects: Evidence From a Field Experiment on Financial Decisions” (2014) · 575 citations
• Mikhail Golosov, The Homer J. Livingston Professor in Economics and the College h-index 34
  Notable: “Optimal Taxes on Fossil Fuel in General Equilibrium” (2014) · 955 citations
• Nancy L. Stokey, The Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College h-index 31
  Notable: “Optimal fiscal and monetary policy in an economy without capital” (1983) · 1,897 citations
• Philip J. Reny, The Hugo F. Sonnenschein Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College h-index 31
  Notable: “On the Existence of Pure and Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibria in Discontinuous Games” (1999) · 648 citations
• Arnold C. Harberger, The Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College h-index 30
  Notable: “The Incidence of the Corporation Income Tax” (1962) · 1,418 citations
• Azeem Shaikh, Department Chair; Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor in Economics and the College h-index 30
• Derek A. Neal, The William C. Norby Professor in Economics and the College h-index 29
  Notable: “Industry-Specific Human Capital: Evidence from Displaced Workers” (1995) · 1,024 citations
• Stéphane Bonhomme, The Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor in Economics and the College h-index 27
  Notable: “Grouped Patterns of Heterogeneity in Panel Data” (2015) · 447 citations
• Christina Brown, Assistant Professor in Economics and the College h-index 24
  Notable: “Friends with benefits: On the positive consequences of pet ownership.” (2011) · 679 citations
• Benjamin Brooks, Professor in Economics and the College; Director, Graduate Studies h-index 17
  Notable: “The Limits of Price Discrimination” (2015) · 364 citations
• Alexander Torgovitsky, Professor in Economics and the College; Director, Graduate Admissions h-index 15
• Manasi Deshpande, Associate Professor in Economics and the College; Co-Director, Graduate Placement h-index 13
  Notable: “Who Is Screened Out? Application Costs and the Targeting of Disability Programs” (2019) · 482 citations
• Thibaut Lamadon, Associate Professor in Economics and the College h-index 13
  Notable: “A Distributional Framework for Matched Employer Employee Data” (2019) · 273 citations
• Evan Rose, Associate Professor in Economics and the College; Co-Director, Graduate Placement h-index 11
  Notable: “Systemic Discrimination Among Large U.S. Employers” (2022) · 205 citations
• Eric Richert, Assistant Professor in Economics and the College h-index 6
  Notable: “Rampant Problems and Promising Practices in the Identification of Disadvantaged Gifted Students” (1987) · 82 citations
• Anne Karing, The Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Economics and the College
• Christopher Walters, Daniel Gressel Professor of Economics in the Wallman Society of Fellows
• David Galenson, Professor in Economics and the College
• Joseph Root, Assistant Professor in Economics and the College
• Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Assistant Professor in Economics and the College
• Kirill Ponomarev, Assistant Professor in Economics and the College
• Mikkel Plagborg-Møller, Professor in Economics and the College

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.