NBER Appoints 54 Research Associates, 3 Faculty Research Fellows

October 2, 2023

The NBER Board of Directors appointed 54 research associates, all of whom were promoted from faculty research fellow status, at the board’s September 2023 meeting. Research associates must be tenured faculty members at North American colleges or universities; their appointments are recommended to the board by directors of the NBER’s 20 research programs, typically after consultation with a steering committee of leading scholars. The new research associates are affiliated with 28 different colleges and universities; they received graduate training at 25 different institutions.

In addition, NBER President James Poterba appointed three new faculty research fellows, typically junior scholars, also on the advice of program directors and their steering committees. The names and university affiliations of the new research associates and faculty research fellows and their primary NBER program affiliations are listed below.

Research Associates

Name	University Affiliation	Program
Achyuta Adhvaryu	University of California, San Diego	Children
Amanda Agan	Rutgers University	Labor Studies
Leila Agha	Harvard University	Economics of Health
Brian Beach	Vanderbilt University	Development of the American Economy
Shai Bernstein	Harvard University	Corporate Finance
John Beshears	Harvard University	Aging
Vivek Bhattacharya	Northwestern University	Industrial Organization
Peter Christensen	University of Illinois	Environment and Energy Economics
Eric Chyn	University of Texas at Austin	Public Economics
Christopher Conlon	New York University	Industrial Organization
Manasi Deshpande	University of Chicago	Aging
Monica Deza	Syracuse University	Economics of Health
Alessandro Dovis	University of Pennsylvania	International Finance and Macroeconomics
Alex Eble	Columbia University	Economics of Education
Florian Ederer	Boston University	Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Ying Fan	University of Michigan	Industrial Organization
Michela Giorcelli	Uiniversity of California, Los Angeles	Development of the American Economy
Osea Giuntella	University of Pittsburgh	Economics of Health
Jacob Goldin	University of Chicago	Public Economics
Matthew Grennan	University of California, Berkeley	Economics of Health
Tal Gross	Boston University	Economics of Health
Walker Hanlon	Northwestern University	Development of the American Economy
John Horton	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Labor Studies
Alex Imas	University of Chicago	Asset Pricing
Anupam Jena	Harvard University	Economics of Health
Damon Jones	University of Chicago	Public Economics
Namrata Kala	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Development Economics
Supreet Kaur	University of California, Berkeley	Development Economics
Elira Kuka	George Washington University	Children
Timothy Layton	Harvard University	Economics of Health
Katherine Meckel	University of California, San Diego	Children
Sarah Miller	University of Michigan	Economics of Health
Tyler Muir	University of California, Los Angeles	Asset Pricing
Kathleen Mullen	University of Oregon	Aging
Ziad Obermeyer	University of California, Berkeley	Aging
Nicholas Papageorge	Johns Hopkins University	Aging
Santiago Pérez	University of California, Davis	Development of the American Economy
Claudia Persico	American University	Children
Carolin Pflueger	University of Chicago	Asset Pricing
Alessandro Rebucci	Johns Hopkins University	International Finance and Macroeconomics
Nicholas Ryan	Yale University	Development Economics
Frank Schilbach	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Development Economics
Jesse Schreger	Columbia University	International Finance and Macroeconomics
Hannes Schwandt	Northwestern University	Children
David Simon	University of Connecticut	Children
Paulo Somaini	Stanford University	Industrial Organization
Amanda Starc	Northwestern University	Economics of Health
Stephen Terry	University of Michigan	Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Owen Thompson	Williams College	Children
Angela Vossmeyer	Claremont McKenna College	Development of the American Economy
Jialan Wang	University of Illinois	Public Economics
Guo Xu	University of California, Berkeley	Political Economy
David Yang	Harvard University	Development Economics
Seth Zimmerman	Yale University	Economics of Education

Faculty Research Fellows

Name	University Affiliation	Program
Mathilde Muñoz	University of California, Berkeley	Public Economics
Maggie Shi	University of Chicago	Economics of Health
David Silver	University of California, Santa Barbara	Economics of Health

NBER Appoints 54 Research Associates, 3 Faculty Research Fellows

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