Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. She has been named to the 2023 Time100 Next list and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. A Marshall Scholar, she […]
Gautam Gowrisankaran is an expert in industrial organization, healthcare economics, and energy and environmental economics. Professor Gowrisankaran has analyzed issues of market definition and market power, the competitive effects of mergers, and claims of attempted monopolization. He has also addressed allegations of tying, foreclosure, and other exclusionary practices arising in such industries as healthcare, consumer […]
Saurabh Bhargava is an Associate Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University, an academic affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT, and the Founder and Co-Director of the BEDR Policy Lab. Saurabh’s research area of Behavioral Economics broadly explores decision-making, and optimal policy design, in the contexts of health insurance, retirement savings, program take-up, unemployment, medical adherence, and employee reward […]
Laura Boudreau is an Assistant Director at Columbia Business School. Laura received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on working conditions, labor market institutions, and firm productivity in developing countries. She is especially interested in how the intersection of global supply chains with local institutions affect firms’ and workers’ outcomes. Title: […]
HUNTER UPP OPEN HOUSE FOR PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS DEPARTMENT OF URBAN POLICY AND PLANNING Join us to find out if Hunter UPP is the right fit for you! Monday, November 13 6:30 pm-8:30 pm Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter Library, 706 HE Learn about program requirements, the admissions process, the cost of attendance, and much more! […]
Kwabena grew up in Accra, Ghana, before migrating to the US. He received a BA/MA economics degree from Hunter College, a Ph.D. in Agriculture and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow at SIEPR. Kwabena’s work combines theory, data, and field experiments to analyze the economic value and impact of social-behavioral fundamentals […]
Sahar Parsa is an applied economist with interests in political economy and finance. Her research has investigated both the determinants of political and cultural institutions, and the consequences of these institutions. Her research interests have led her to a wide variety of settings, from economic history and politics to financial markets. She has also used […]
Kevin Kuruc is a Senior Researcher at the Population Wellbeing Initiative of the University of Texas at Austin and a Senior Research Affiliate of the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford. His research interests are in applied macroeconomics, environmental economics, and welfare economics. He has work on climate and agricultural economics, population and long-run growth, and international transfers. Title: […]
Dr. Prabal K. De is a Professor of Economics in the Colin Powell School at the City College and a doctoral faculty at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His recent research focuses on access, outcome, and disparities in health and education. His work has been funded by National Cancer Institute and the […]
Dan Hamermesh is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the Society of Labor Economists, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and Past President of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Midwest Economics Association. In 2013 he received the biennial […]
