The following individuals have recently joined the Harvard Faculty or accepted appointments in the Department of Economics.
Senior Faculty
Matthew Rabin joins the department as Pershing Square Professor of Behavior Economics and comes to Harvard from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Rabin received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1989. At Berkeley, he was director of the Program in Psychological Economics. He is a member of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable and of the Program Committee, 8th World Congress of the Econometric Society. In 2000-2001 he held a visiting position at the London School of Economics as BP Amoco-LSE Centennial Professor, and in 2004 he was Taussig Research Professor here at Harvard. Professor Rabin's honors include Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow; Graduate Economics Association, Outstanding Teaching Award; MacArthur Foundation Fellow (2001-2005); Econometric Society Fellow; John Bates Clark Medal from American Economic Association; Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and the John von Neumann Award, Laszlo Rajk College, Budapest.
Elie Tamer joins the department as Professor of Economics and comes to Harvard from Northwestern University. Professor Tamer received his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University in 1999. He has taught at Princeton and Northwestern. Professor Tamer's research is in econometrics, partial identification, and empirical industrial organization. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Co-editor of Econometrica.
Junior Faculty
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich joined the department last year in 2013 as Assistant Professor of Economics and now teaches full time at Harvard following a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton. His research focuses on macroeconomics, finance, and labor economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2013. From 2009-2010, he served as an economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He received his A.B. (magna cum laude) in Social Studies from Harvard in 2005.
Melissa Dell began her new appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics on July 1, 2014. Professor Dell had previously been at Harvard University as an associate of the department and also as a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows since 2012. She holds an A.B. degree from Harvard University, M.Phil. from Oxford University, and Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. Her research interests and areas of expertise include development, political economy, and economic history.
Robin Lee joins the department this year as Assistant Professor of Economics. Professor Lee is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served on the faculty at NYU Stern School of Business. He holds A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Professor Lee's research interests are in industrial organization and applied microeconomic theory. His work focuses on bargaining and contracting between firms with market power in bilateral oligopoly, and he studies the implications of exclusive or selective contracting and vertical integration on industry structure, competition and welfare.
Matteo Maggiori is Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Professor Maggiori received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, selected for the 2012 Review of Economic Studies May Meetings (European Tour), and won the 2013 AQR Insight Award. His research focuses on finance and international macroeconomics. His research topics have included the analysis of exchange rate dynamics, the international financial system, and very long-run discount rates.
Gautam Rao is presently a post-doctoral research fellow at Microsoft Research Labs, New England. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. Gautam will begin his appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Harvard in July 2015. Gautam's research brings insights from psychology to bear on topics in economics, particularly topics relevant to developing countries. Recent projects include studying how mixing rich and poor students in schools in India affects social preferences and behaviors, how citizens are motivated to vote by social image concerns, and how innovative financial contracts can help patients with hypertension overcome their self-control problems in rural India. In addition to working in behavioral and development economics, he has secondary interests in political and labor economics.
Stefanie Stantcheva is an associate of the Department of Economics and is also a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. She will begin an appointment as Assistant Professor in July 2016. Stefanie received her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2014. Stefanie's research focuses on the optimal design of the tax system, taking into account important labor market features, more complex social preferences, and long-term effects such as human capital acquisition and productive investments by firms.