27 faculty and 51 courses in Economics at Wellesley College.
- 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
- Joseph Joyce, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations & Professor of Economics h-index 18
- Robin McKnight, Professor of Economics h-index 16
- Casey Rothschild, Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Economics h-index 15
- 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
- Julie Matthaei, Professor Emerita of Economics h-index 13
- 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
- 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
- Lucie Lebeau, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 8
- 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
- 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
- Akila Weerapana, Professor of Economics
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
- Ann Velenchik, Associate Professor of Economics and Writing
- Ann Witte, Professor Emerita of Economics
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
- Carl McPherson, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Courtney Coile, Stanford Calderwood Professor of Economics, Provost and Lia Gelin Poorvu '56 Dean of the College
- 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
- David Lindauer, Stanford Calderwood Professor Emeritus of Economics
- Eric Hilt, Professor of Economics
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
- Kartini Shastry, Professor of Economics
- Kristin Butcher, Marshall I Goldman Professor Emerita of Economics
- Patrick McEwan, Marshall I. Goldman Professor of Economics
- Phillip Levine, Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics
- Rachel Deyette Werkema, Assistant Teaching Professor in Economics
- Seth Neumuller, Associate Professor of Economics
- Susan Skeath, Professor of Economics
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
- Tyler Giles, Assistant Professor of Economics
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