# Robert Barro Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics ![Robert Barro headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum5991/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-08/Barro%20_Robert_25_0724_generated.jpg?itok=oSdstamA) location\_on Littauer Center 218 smartphone [617-496-0053](tel:617-496-0053) email laptop\_windows [Personal Website](https://barro.scholars.harvard.edu/) Robert J. Barro is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Recent research involves rare macroeconomic disasters, corporate tax reform, religion & economy, empirical determinants of economic growth, and economic effects of public debt and budget deficits. Recent books include Religion and Economy (forthcoming with Rachel McCleary), *Economic Growth* (2nd edition, written with Xavier Sala-i-Martin), *Nothing Is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium, Determinants of Economic Growth, and Getting It Right: Markets and Choices in a Free Society.* Barro is co-editor of Harvard’s *Quarterly Journal of Economics* and was recently President of the Western Economic Association and Vice President of the American Economic Association. He was a viewpoint columnist for Business Week from 1998 to 2006 and a contributing editor of *The Wall Street Journal* from 1991 to 1998. He has written extensively on macroeconomics and economic growth. Current research focuses on two very different topics: the interplay between religion and political economy and the impact of rare disasters on asset markets and macroeconomic activity. Faculty Assistant: [Emily Sall](/people/emily-depuy-sall "Emily Sall") - ## Economic Fields [Financial Economics](/economic-fields/financial-economics) [Macroeconomics](/economic-fields/macroeconomics) - ## Faculty Alpha [A - L](/faculty-alpha/l) - ## Fields of Interest [Economic Growth](/fields-interest/economic-growth) [Macroeconomics](/fields-interest/macroeconomics) - ## People Alpha [A - E](/people-alpha/a-e) - ## Role [Faculty](/people-type/department-faculty)