NBER Appoints 63 New Affiliates
Following a call for nominations in January, the NBER has appointed 63 new affiliates: 19 Research Associates and 44 Faculty Research Fellows. In addition, six Faculty Research Fellows have been promoted to Research Associates.
The directors of the NBER’s 19 research programs recommend appointments after consulting with steering committees made up of leading scholars. Research Associate appointments must be approved by the NBER Board of Directors, while Faculty Research Fellows are appointed by the NBER president. All new affiliates must hold primary academic appointments in North America; Research Associates must have tenure.
The newly appointed researchers serve on the faculties of 39 different colleges and universities. They received their graduate training at 29 different institutions. The new appointments bring the total number of Research Associates to 1,532 and the number of Faculty Research Fellows to 319.
The names and university affiliations of the newly appointed NBER affiliates are listed below.
Research Associates
Name | University Affiliation | Program |
Abhay Aneja | UC, Berkeley | Law and Economics |
Silvia Barcellos* | University of Wisconsin | Economics of Aging, Economics of Health |
Valentina Bruno | American University | International Finance and Macroeconomics |
Ryan Chahrour | Cornell University | Monetary Economics |
Xi Chen | Yale University | Economics of Aging |
Maureen Cropper* | University of Maryland | Environment and Energy Economics |
Sebastian Di Tella* | Stanford University | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
Douglas Gollin | Tufts University | Development Economics |
Deepak Hegde | New York University | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
Kyle Herkenhoff* | University of Minnesota | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
Joshua Hyman | Amherst College | Economics of Education |
Simon Jäger* | Princeton University | Labor Studies |
Ethan Kaplan | University of Maryland | Political Economy |
Michael Keane | Johns Hopkins University | Economics of Aging, Economics of Health |
David Keiser | University of Massachusetts | Environment and Energy Economics |
Gaurav Khanna | UC, San Diego | Development Economics |
Bhashkar Mazumder | UC, Irvine | Children and Families, Economics of Health |
Paul Novosad | Dartmouth College | Development Economics |
Paige Ouimet | University of North Carolina | Corporate Finance |
Richard Patterson | Brigham Young University | Economics of Education |
Yongseok Shin* | Washington University in St. Louis | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
Joseph Steinberg | University of Toronto | International Finance and Macroeconomics |
Olga Stoddard | Brigham Young University | Labor Studies |
Lucian Taylor | University of Pennsylvania | Corporate Finance |
Yulya Truskinovsky | Syracuse University | Economics of Aging |
*Promotion from Faculty Research Fellow.
Faculty Research Fellows
Name | University Affiliation | Program |
Carolina Arteaga | University of Toronto | Economics of Health |
Jacob Bastian | Rutgers University | Children and Families |
Ceren Baysan | University of Toronto | Political Economy, Development Economics |
Gideon Bornstein | University of Pennsylvania | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
Greg Buchak | Stanford University | Children and Families |
Juanma Castro-Vincenzi* | University of Chicago | International Trade and Investment |
Brandyn Churchill | American University | Economics of Health |
Gemma Dipoppa | Columbia University | Political Economy |
Valentina Duque | American University | Children and Families |
Joel Flynn | Yale University | Monetary Economics, Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
Masao Fukui | Boston University | Monetary Economics |
Chloe Gibbs | University of Notre Dame | Children and Families, Economics of Education |
Matthew Gudgeon | Tufts University | Labor Studies |
Allan Hsiao | Stanford University | Environment and Energy Economics, Development Economics, Industrial Organization |
Anders Humlum | University of Chicago | Labor Studies |
Pawel Janas | Caltech | Development of the American Economy |
Erin Kelley | University of Chicago | Development Economics |
Raymond Kluender | Harvard University | Economics of Health |
Ambar La Forgia | UC, Berkeley | Economics of Health |
Lorenzo Lagos | Brown University | Labor Studies |
Riley League | University of Illinois | Economics of Health |
Wenhao Li | University of Southern California | Asset Pricing |
Yiming Ma | Columbia University | Asset Pricing |
Brian McGarry | University of Rochester | Economics of Aging |
Emily Nix | University of Southern California | Law and Economics, Labor Studies |
Sebastián Otero | Columbia University | Economics of Education |
Bruno Pellegrino | Columbia University | International Finance and Macroeconomics |
Mayra Pineda-Torres | Georgia Tech | Economics of Health |
Michael Rubens | UC, Los Angeles | Industrial Organization |
Martin Saavedra | Rutgers University | Development of the American Economy |
Andreas Schaab | UC, Berkeley | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
David Schönholzer | UC, Santa Cruz | Public Economics |
Bernardo Silveira | UC, Los Angeles | Law and Economics |
Evan Soltas* | Princeton University | Public Economics |
Jorge Tamayo | Harvard University | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
Charles Taylor | Harvard University | Environment and Energy Economics |
Patrick Testa | Tulane University | Development of the American Economy |
Nick Tsivanidis | UC, Berkeley | International Trade and Investment, Development Economics |
Benjamin Vatter | MIT | Industrial Organization, Economics of Health |
Damián Vergara | University of Michigan | Public Economics |
Milena Wittwer | Boston College | Industrial Organization |
Woan Foong Wong | University of Oregon | International Trade and Investment |
Ting Xu | University of Toronto | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
Yao Zeng | University of Pennsylvania | Asset Pricing |
*Appointment will take effect on July 1, 2025.