Professors Melissa Dell and Matteo Maggiori Named as Furer Fellows, 2016 - 2019

Professors Melissa Dell and Matteo Maggiori have been named Furer Fellows in the Department of Economics, for a three-year term, effective July 1, 2016. The Furer Fellowship is an endowed position that recognizes the achievement of assistant and associate professors in the Economics Department.

The Fellowship was established in 2003 by Andrew E. Furer, A.B. ’75, J.D. ’77 for tenure-track Economics faculty research and development. Mr. Furer has a long history of supporting Economics at Harvard, his field of concentration as a Harvard undergraduate. Past Furer Fellows include Nathaniel Hendren, Amanda Pallais, Eric Chaney, Rick Hornbeck, Tomasz Strzalecki, and Pol Antras.

Melissa Dell is Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is a former Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Global Scholar in the Institutions, Organizations and Growth program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Melissa's research focuses on the interplay between the state, non-state actors, and economic development. In particular, she has examined the relationship between government crackdowns and drug violence in Mexico, as well as the persistence of poverty in Mexico and Peru.

Matteo Maggiori is Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research focuses on finance and international macroeconomics.  His research topics have included the analysis of exchange rate dynamics, the international financial system, bubbles, and very long-run discount rates.  He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research.