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Dale Jorgenson

Samuel W. Morris University Professor
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Econometrics.
Research Topics: Tax reform and U.S. economic growth, energy, the environment, economic growth in China, investment in human capital, international comparisons of economic growth.
On Leave 2012-2013

Maximilian Kasy

Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Primary Fields of Interest: Econometrics, Labor Economics, Public Finance
Research Topics: identification and parameters of interest in microeconometrics, econometrics methods for the analysis of economic inequality, optimal policy choice and econometrics

Lawrence Katz

Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Labor economics, economics of social problems, applied microeconomics.
Research Topics: Wage determination, understanding changes in the wage structure and wage inequality, housing mobility and neighborhood effects, technological change and the labor market, unemployment, immigration, evaluation of the impacts of social and labor market poli

Michael Kremer

Gates Professor of Developing Societies
Ph.D. Harvard
Primary Fields of Interest: Development economics.
Research Topics: Economic development, health and education in the developing world.

David Laibson

Harvard College Professor, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics
Ph.D. MIT
Primary Fields of Interest: Macroeconomics, finance, psychology and economics, experimental economics.
Research Topics: Savings, consumption, intertemporal choice, neuroeconomics, household finance, bounded rationality.

Gregory Lewis

Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Primary Fields of Interest: Industrial Organization, Microeconomic Theory, Applied Econometrics.
Research Topics: Role of information in markets (disclosure, signaling behavior), Auction Estimation and Design.