27 faculty and 51 courses in Economics at Wellesley College.
- Phillip Levine, Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics h-index 43
Notable: “Discrimination in the Small-Business Credit Market” (2003) · 763 citations
- Patrick McEwan, Marshall I. Goldman Professor of Economics h-index 33
Notable: “Improving Learning in Primary Schools of Developing Countries” (2014) · 405 citations
- Ann Witte, Professor Emerita of Economics h-index 31
Es on how to effectively empower people to manage their finances; how to improve early care and education in the US; and how memory affects and morphs as time passes. I am a Principal Investigator of the 2012 National Survey of Early Educat
Notable: “Domestic Violence: A Nonrandom Affair” (1991) · 363 citations
- Sari Kerr, Sr. Research Scientist/Economist h-index 29
In the area of entrepreneurship, immigration, and the intersection of family and the labor market. Most of my work uses big administrative data to evaluate how labor markets along with policy and industrial conditions shape the behavior
Notable: “Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature” (2018) · 537 citations
- Courtney Coile, Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics, Provost and Lia Gelin Poorvu '56 Dean of the College h-index 27
Notable: “Social Security and Retirement” (2001) · 309 citations
- Kristin Butcher, Marshall I Goldman Professor Emerita of Economics h-index 26
Notable: “Childhood Obesity: Trends and Potential Causes” (2006) · 700 citations
- Joseph Joyce, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations & Professor of Economics h-index 18
Notable: “Sudden stops, banking crises and investment collapses in emerging markets” (2008) · 118 citations
- Robin McKnight, Professor of Economics h-index 16
Notable: “Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly” (2010) · 418 citations
- Casey Rothschild, Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Economics h-index 15
Notable: “Redistributive Taxation in the Roy Model*” (2012) · 161 citations
- Eric Hilt, Professor of Economics h-index 15
Es on the history of American business organizations and their governance, and more generally on the role of legal institutions in shaping economic and financial development. My most recent work has analyzed the impact of historical financi
Notable: “Economic History, Historical Analysis, and the “New History of Capitalism”” (2017) · 73 citations
- Pinar Keskin, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 14
Development, health, and environmental economics My research primarily focuses on three areas: (i) the causes and consequences of domestic violence and its transmission across generations; (ii) the social and economic determinants of men
Notable: “The Historically Evolving Impact of the Ogallala Aquifer: Agricultural Adaptation to Groundwater and Drought” (2013) · 243 citations
- David Lindauer, Stanford Calderwood Professor Emeritus of Economics h-index 14
Notable: “What's the Big Idea? The Third Generation of Policies for Economic Growth” (2002) · 125 citations
- Julie Matthaei, Professor Emerita of Economics h-index 13
Notable: “Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural Economic History of Women in the United States.” (1992) · 97 citations
- Olga Shurchkov, Professor of Economics h-index 12
Span two areas within behavioral economics, unified by a common theme of the use of experimental methodology as the means to investigate the mechanisms underlying observed behavior. The first area focuses on uncovering and explaining differ
Notable: “UNDER PRESSURE: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN OUTPUT QUALITY AND QUANTITY UNDER COMPETITION AND TIME CONSTRAINTS” (2012) · 243 citations
- Ann Velenchik, Associate Professor of Economics and Writing h-index 12
Notable: “More Bad News for Smokers? The Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Wages” (1997) · 130 citations
- Susan Skeath, Professor of Economics h-index 11
Lie in the areas of applied game theory and experimental economics. Much of this current work is related to the research my co-authors and I complete while updating our textbook, Games of Strategy, which is going to 5th edition in 2019. Our
Notable: “A Pareto comparison of ad valorem and unit taxes in noncompetitive environments” (1994) · 162 citations
- Ama Baafra Abeberese, Class of 1966 Associate Professor of Economics h-index 10
Es on analyzing the behavior of firms in developing economies. My current research explores the constraints faced by firms in developing economies and the responses of firms to these constraints. Some of my work analyzes firm responses to e
Notable: “Electricity Cost and Firm Performance: Evidence from India” (2016) · 168 citations
- Akila Weerapana, Professor of Economics h-index 9
Ed on monetary policy and my interest in the area remains inversely proportional to my publishing success. In the last few years, I have served as the Faculty Director of the Pforzheimer Learning and Teaching Center at Wellesley and as the
Notable: “Economic conditions and terrorism” (2004) · 302 citations
- Lucie Lebeau, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 8
Notable: “Comparison of Anti-Viral Activity of Frog Skin Anti-Microbial Peptides Temporin-Sha and [K3]SHa to LL-37 and Temporin-Tb against Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1” (2019) · 50 citations
- Seth Neumuller, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 6
Notable: “Can income differences explain the racial wealth gap? A quantitative analysis” (2019) · 41 citations
- Kyung Park, Associate Professor of Economics h-index 5
Encompass political economy, legal systems, and affordable housing. Currently, I am exploring the impacts of affordable housing initiatives and examining how housing affordability has evolved in recent years. My work aims to shed light on t
Notable: “Upregulation of NAD(P)H:Quinone Oxidoreductase By Radiation Potentiates the Effect of Bioreductive β-Lapachone on Cancer Cells” (2007) · 73 citations
- Tsegay Tekleselassie, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Economics h-index 4
Es on development economics, labor economics, and political economy. I am passionate about exploring the economic factors that drive societal progress and policies that can enhance economic development and improve labor markets for gainful
Notable: “Tall paper walls: The political economy of visas and cross‐border travel” (2018) · 12 citations
- Carl McPherson, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Dan Sichel, Stanford Calderwood Professor Emeritus of Economics
Macroeconomics, economic growth, technology, and economic measurement. I came to Wellesley in 2012 from the economic policy world in Washington, D.C. Most of my time in DC was with the Federal Reserve Board, though I also worked at
- Kartini Shastry, Professor of Economics
- Rachel Deyette Werkema, Assistant Teaching Professor in Economics
- Tyler Giles, 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.