An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University,located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston,Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers,the nation's first graduate training program in population health,which was founded in 1913 and then became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.
The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy,also known as the Ford School,is the public policy school of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,Michigan. Founded in 1914 to train municipal administration experts,the school was named after University of Michigan alumus and former U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1999.
Marina von Neumann Whitman is an American economist,writer and former automobile executive. She is a professor of business administration and public policy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business as well as The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Alan V. Deardorff is the John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy,Ann Arbor. Deardorff received his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 1971.
The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) was founded in 1947 as the Industrial Relations Research Association. LERA is an organization for professionals in industrial relations and human resources. Headquartered at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign,the organization has more than 3,000 members at the national level and in its local chapters. LERA is a non-profit,non-partisan organization that draws its members from the ranks of academia,management,labor and "neutrals".
Paul N. Courant is an American economist who is an expert in public goods. His recent research focuses on the economics of universities,the economics of libraries and archives,and the impact of new information technologies on the scholarly publishing system.
Justin James Michael Wolfers is an Australian economist and public policy scholar. He is professor of economics and public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan,and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
David T. Ellwood is an American economist and university administrator. He served as the dean of Harvard Kennedy School and as the Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University.
Nadarajan "Raj" Chetty is an Indian-American economist and the William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics at Harvard University. Some of Chetty's recent papers have studied equality of opportunity in the United States and the long-term impact of teachers on students' performance. Offered tenure at the age of 28,Chetty became one of the youngest tenured faculty in the history of Harvard's economics department. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal and a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Currently,he is also an advisory editor of the Journal of Public Economics. In 2020,he was awarded the Infosys Prize in Economics,the highest monetary award recognizing achievements in science and research,in India.
Harry Joseph Holzer is an American economist,educator and public policy analyst.
Timothy J. Bartik is an American economist who specializes in regional economics,public finance,urban economics,labor economics,and labor demand policies. He is a senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo,Michigan.
Duncan K. Foley is an American economist. He is the Leo Model Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Previously,he was Associate Professor of Economics at MIT and Stanford,and Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He has held visiting professorships at Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University,UC Berkeley,and Dartmouth College,as well as the New School for Social Research.
Jeff MacKie-Mason is an American economist specializing in information,incentive-centered design and public policy. MacKie-Mason is the university librarian and chief digital scholarship officer of the University of California,Berkeley,where he is also a professor in the School of Information and a professor of economics. At the University of Michigan he was the Arthur W. Burks Collegiate Professor of Information and Computer Science at the School of Information,professor of economics,and professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. MacKie-Mason was the founding director of STIET,a research program for Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions funded by the National Science Foundation bridging together over 60 faculty and doctoral students in economics and computer science research.
Kathryn Mary Elizabeth Dominguez is a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan and is a former nominee for the Governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.
Susan Marie Dynarski is an American economist who is currently professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also a faculty research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Susan M. Collins is an American economist who has served as the 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston since July 1,2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to lead any of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. Collins previously served as the 16th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan from 2020 to 2022.
Kerwin Kofi Charles is the Indra K. Nooyi Dean &Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics,Policy,and Management at the Yale School of Management. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. He has been chair of the Board of trustees of NORC,serves on the board of trustees of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,is a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee,and sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Labor Economics. He was previously the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of the Harris School of Public Policy at The University of Chicago,and was a professor at the University of Michigan from 1995 - 2006.
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick is an American economic advisor serving as a senior economist at the University of Michigan Energy Institute. She previously served as the chief economist for Ford Motor Company for over 18 years,and oversaw the company through the 2008 financial crisis. Hughes-Cromwick has been involved with the National Association for Business Economics for over a decade,and served as the association's president from 2007 to 2008.
Nada O. Eissa is an American economist who is an associate professor of Public Policy and Economics at Georgetown University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (microeconomics) in 2005–2007.
