Jaison Abel
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1999
Interests: Industrial organization; economics of innovation; public finance; regional economics.

Jason Bram
M.B.A., NYU, 1992
Interests: Regional economics; consumer behavior and demographics; urban development.

Meta Brown
Ph.D., NYU, 2001
Interests: Public economics; labor economics; economics of the household; human capital.

Rajashri Chakrabarti
Ph.D., Cornell, 2004
Interests: Public economics and public policy; labor economics and economics of education; applied microeconomics; applied econometrics.

Richard Deitz
Ph.D., Binghamton University, 1995
Interests: Regional economics; urban economics; labor economics.

Andrew Haughwout
Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1993
Interests: Public finance; urban and regional economics.

Donghoon Lee
Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 2001
Interests: Labor economics; applied econometrics; estimation of general equilibrium models.

Giorgio Topa
Ph.D., Chicago, 1996
Interests: Labor and urban economics; social interactions and local spillovers; spatial econometrics.

Wilbert van der Klaauw
Ph.D., Brown, 1992
Interests: Labor economics; public policy; applied econometrics.

Basit Zafar
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2008
Interests: Labor economics; economics of education; experimental economics.

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