Faculty

Faculty research projects are wide-ranging and include work on fiscal and monetary policy in the United States, decentralization in river basins, labor market developments in China, the empirical relationship between urbanization and economic growth, public policy and health, and international finance and trade. Faculty members bring this variety of intellectual interests into their classrooms.

The department co-chairs for the 2024-2025 academic year are Associate Professor Sandra Goff and Associate Professor Leshui He.

Samuel S. Bird

Assistant Professor of Economics

development economics, econometrics

Pubali Chakraborty

Assistant Professor of Economics

Kyle G. Coombs

Assistant Professor of Economics

Sandra H. Goff

Associate Professor of Economics

behavioral economics, charitable giving, environmental and natural resource economics, experimental economics, prosocial behavior

Leshui He

Associate Professor of Economics

industrial organization, integration and outsourcing, law and economics, organizational economics, peer-effects of students, property rights

James W. Hughes

Thomas Sowell Professor Emeritus of Economics

applied microeconomics, labor economics, migration and human trafficking, racial and sexual discrimination

Amanda R. Lindsay

Assistant Professor of Economics

bioeconomic modeling, dynamic economic modeling, environmental and natural resource economics, fisheries management, resource use in developing countries

Margaret Maurer-Fazio

Betty Doran Stangle Professor Emerita of Applied Economics

Correspondence (resume) audit studies of Chinese firms’ hiring decisions, economic well being of China’s ethnic minorities, Gender wage differentials in China, Labor force participation in China, labor market developments in China, Rates of return to investments in education in China, Transitions from work to retirement in China

Ben Moodie

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Economics and European Studies

Curtis S. Morrill

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Michael P. Murray

Charles Franklin Phillips Professor Emeritus of Economics

behavioral economics, econometrics, economic development, health threats in developing countries, housing, instrumental variables estimation, inter-temporal preferences, labor economics, military manpower, mobile telephony in Africa, public economics, U.S. social welfare programs, urban economics

Daniel Riera-Crichton

Betty Doran Stangle Professor of Applied Economics

fiscal multipliers, fiscal policy, international capital flows, international finance, international relative prices, international reserves, open macroeconomics

Edith E. Sallah

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

Carl R. Schwinn

Professor Emeritus of Economics

asset pricing models, corporate finance, valuation and capital structure

Anamika Sen

Assistant Professor of Economics

Paul J. Shea

Dowling Family Professor of Economics

bounded rationality, informational restrictions and asymmetries, macroeconomics, multiple equilibria

Austin C. Smith

Associate Professor of Economics

Economics of Education, Health Economics, labor economics

Nivedhitha Subramanian

Assistant Professor of Economics

development economics, gender, Health Economics, labor economics, women’s labor supply

Xinhao Wang

Visiting Instructor in Economics

Anne D. Williams

Professor Emerita of Economics

jigsaw puzzle history, population, toy industry