NBER Appoints 35 Research Associates, Fall 2026
The NBER Board of Directors appointed 35 Research Associates at its September 2026 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 19 research programs, typically after consultation with a steering committee of leading scholars. The new Research Associates are affiliated with 24 different colleges and universities, and they received graduate training at 18 different institutions. Following these appointments, the NBER has 1,622 Research Associates and 283 Faculty Research Fellows. The names and universities of the new Research Associates and their NBER program affiliations are listed below.
Research Associates
| Name | University Affiliation | University of PhD | Program |
| Rodrigo Adao | University of Chicago | MIT | International Trade and Investment |
| Hassan Afrouzi | Columbia University | UT Austin | Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Monetary Economics |
| Abby Alpert | University of Pennsylvania | University of Maryland | Economics of Health |
| Youssef Benzarti | UC Santa Barbara | UC Berkeley | Public Economics |
| Michael Best | Columbia University | LSE | Development Economics, Public Economics |
| Corina Boar | New York University | University of Rochester | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
| Judson Boomhower | UC San Diego | UC Berkeley | Environment and Energy Economics |
| Giulia Brancaccio | New York University | Princeton University | Industrial Organization |
| Kevin Bryan | University of Toronto | Northwestern University | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
| Russell Cooper | University of Austin | University of Pennsylvania | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
| Rebecca Dizon-Ross | University of Michigan | Stanford University | Economics of Education, Development Economics |
| Thomas Drechsel | Johns Hopkins University | LSE | Monetary Economics |
| James Feigenbaum | Boston University | Harvard University | Development of the American Economy |
| Sharat Ganapati | Georgetown University | Yale University | International Trade and Investment |
| Andrew Garin | Carnegie Mellon University | Harvard University | Labor Studies |
| Daniel Gross | Duke University | UC Berkeley | Development of the American Economy, Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
| Gaston Illanes | Northwestern University | MIT | Industrial Organization |
| Akshaya Jha | Carnegie Mellon University | Stanford University | Environment and Energy Economics |
| Lawrence Jin | Cornell University | Yale University | Asset Pricing |
| Andrew Johnston | UT Austin | University of Pennsylvania | Economics of Education, Public Economics |
| Maggie Jones | McGill University | Queens University | Development of the American Economy |
| Reka Juhasz | University of British Columbia | LSE | Development of the American Economy, International Trade and Investment |
| Matthias Kehrig | Duke University | Northwestern University | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
| Eoin McGuirk | Tufts University | University of Dublin | Development Economics, Political Economy |
| Ferdinando Monte | Georgetown University | University of Chicago | International Trade and Investment |
| Aurelie Ouss | University of Pennsylvania | Harvard University | Law and Economics |
| Adam Sacarny | Columbia University | MIT | Economics of Aging, Economics of Health |
| Tobias Salz | MIT | New York University | Industrial Organization |
| Lawrence Schmidt | UC San Diego | UC San Diego | Asset Pricing |
| Elizabeth Setren | Tufts University | MIT | Children and Families, Economics of Education |
| Yotam Shem-Tov | UCLA | UC Berkeley | Labor Studies |
| Mark Shepard | Harvard University | Harvard University | Economics of Aging, Economics of Health |
| Chris Stanton | Harvard University | Stanford University | Labor Studies |
| Christian Wolf | MIT | Princeton University | Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Monetary Economics |
| Woan Foong Wong | University of Oregon | University of Wisconsin-Madison | International Trade and Investment |
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