Faculty

Regular Faculty

Mary J. Lopez, Chair

Professor, Economics

B.A., UC Riverside; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Professor Lopez's research is in the areas of labor economics, applied micro, and demography.

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Bevin Ashenmiller

Associate Professor, Economics

B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara

Bevin Ashenmiller is an Environmental Economist whose research falls into three areas: recycling, evaluation of environmental programs, and energy and climate policy.

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Lesley Chiou

Laurence de Rycke Professor of Economics

B.A., UC Berkeley; Ph.D., MIT

Lesley Chiou's research is in the areas of Industrial Organization and Applied Econometrics. Her recent work focuses on consumer behavior and firm strategy on the internet.

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Jorgen Harris

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Jorgen Harris is a labor economist whose work focuses on the relationships between human capital, labor markets, and social norms. He is particularly interested in the role of gender in the workplace and the economics of parenting. Read his ��ҹ�糡 Story profile.

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Andrew Jalil

Associate Professor, Economics

A.B.; Sc.B. Brown University; Ph.D. UC Berkeley

Andrew Jalil is an economist, whose research is in two distinct areas: (1) macroeconomic history (financial crises, monetary and fiscal policy, the Great Depression) and (2) food policy (health, sustainability).

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Brandon Lehr

Interim Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs; Associate Professor, Economics

B.A., UC Berkeley; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Brandon Lehr is an applied micro theorist whose research areas include optimal public policy, social insurance, and behavioral economics.

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Jesse Mora

Associate Professor, Economics

B.A. Claremont McKenna; M.A. John Hopkins-SAIS; M.A., Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz

Jesse Mora’s research interests are international trade, development economics, and applied microeconomics. His current research focuses on the effect of export failure on domestic market performance.

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Diana Ngo

Associate Professor, Economics

B.S. Harvard University; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Diana Ngo’s research interests are in Applied Microeconomics and Development Economics.

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S. K. Ritadhi

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A., Grinnel College; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

I am an applied microeconomist whose present research interests lie at the intersection of development and finance.

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Kevin M. Williams

Assistant Professor, Economics

B.A., Claremont McKenna College; M.S., Ph.D., UC Davis

Kevin Williams is an applied micro economist whose research focuses on questions of education, peer effects and social networks.

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Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Sofia F. Franco

Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics

Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara

Sofia Franco is an applied microeconomist with a research agenda that lies at the boundaries of environmental, urban and transportation economics, and uses state-of-the-art econometric and computable general equilibrium methods, as well as geographical information tools.

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