NBER Appoints 65 New Affiliates
Following a call for nominations in January, the NBER has appointed 65 new affiliates: 16 Research Associates and 49 Faculty Research Fellows. In addition, two 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 36 different colleges and universities. They received their graduate training at 29 different institutions. The new appointments bring the total number of Research Associates to 1,590 and the number of Faculty Research Fellows to 318.
The names and university affiliations of the newly appointed NBER affiliates are listed below.
Research Associates
| Name | University Affiliation | Program |
| Abi Adams | Northwestern University | Labor Studies, Children and Families |
| Sule Alan | Cornell University | Children and Families, Development Economics |
| Saki Bigio* | UC Los Angeles | Economic Fluctuations and Growth, International Finance and Macroeconomics |
| Thomas Chaney | University of Southern California | International Trade and Investment |
| Cesi Cruz | University of Michigan | Political Economy |
| Rajeev Darolia | University of Kentucky | Economics of Education |
| Farid Farrokhi | Boston College | Environment and Energy Economics |
| Julia Fonseca | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Corporate Finance |
| Domenico Giannone | John Hopkins University | Monetary Economics |
| Paul Grieco | Pennsylvania State University | Industrial Organization |
| Arpit Gupta | New York University | Corporate Finance |
| Navin Kartik | Yale University | Political Economy |
| Jason Kerwin | University of Washington | Economics of Education |
| Erik Loualiche | University of Minnesota | Asset Pricing |
| Sam Norris | University of British Columbia | Labor Studies |
| Javaeria A. Qureshi | University of Illinois at Chicago | Economics of Education |
| Thomas Wollmann* | Boston University | Economics of Health, Industrial Organization |
| Rachel Werner | University of Pennsylvania | Economics of Aging |
| *Promotion from Faculty Research Fellow. | ||
Faculty Research Fellows
| Name | University Affiliation | Program |
| Lukas Althoff | Stanford University | Development of the American Economy |
| Charles Angelucci | MIT | Political Economy |
| Carlos Avenancio-Leon | UC San Diego | Law and Economics |
| Victoria Barone | University of Notre Dame | Economics of Health |
| Panka Bencsik | Vanderbilt University | Economics of Health |
| Agostina Brinatti* | University of Chicago | International Trade and Investment |
| Kevin Bryan | University of Toronto | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
| Sophie Calder-Wang | University of Pennsylvania | Industrial Organization |
| Alex Chan | Harvard University | Economics of Health |
| Antonio Coppola* | Stanford University | International Finance and Macroeconomics |
| Jamein Cunningham | UT Austin | Law and Economics |
| Matthew Denes | Carnegie Mellon University | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
| Cauê Dobbin | Georgetown University | Economics of Education |
| Arkadev Ghosh | Duke University | Development Economics |
| Benjamin Goldman | Cornell University | Children and Families, Public Economics |
| Joao Guerreiro | UC Los Angeles | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
| Juan Herreno | UC San Diego | Monetary Economics |
| Sean Higgins | Northwestern University | Corporate Finance |
| Ryan Hill | Northwestern University | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
| Erica Xuewei Jiang | UC Los Angeles | Corporate Finance |
| Eben Lazarus | UC Berkeley | Asset Pricing |
| Anran Li | University of Minnesota | Economics of Health |
| Paolo Martellini | New York University | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
| Virginia Minni | University of Chicago | Labor Studies |
| Yuhei Miyauchi | Boston University | International Trade and Investment |
| Leon Musolff | University of Pennsylvania | Industrial Organization |
| Ishan Nath | Harvard University | Environment and Energy Economics |
| Ryungha Oh* | University of Chicago | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
| Andrew Olenski | Lehigh University | Economics of Aging |
| Cristobal Otero | Columbia University | Economics of Health |
| Simon Quach | University of Southern California | Labor Studies |
| Eric Richert | University of Chicago | Industrial Organization |
| Marius Ring | UT Austin | Public Economics |
| Max Risch | Carnegie Mellon University | Public Economics |
| Roman Rivera | Georgetown University | Law and Economics |
| Fernanda Rojas Ampuero | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Children and Families |
| Kunal Sangani | Northwestern University | Monetary Economics |
| Lawrence D.W. Schmidt | MIT | Asset Pricing |
| Garima Sharma | Northwestern University | Development Economics, Labor Studies |
| Manasvini Singh | Carnegie Mellon University | Economics of Health |
| Cory Smith | University of Maryland | Development of the American Economy |
| Ben Sprung-Keyser | University of Pennsylvania | Public Economics |
| Carolyn Stein | UC Berkeley | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
| Daniela Vidart | University of Connecticut | Development of the American Economy |
| Nicholas Vreugdenhil | Arizona State University | Environment and Energy Economics |
| Conor Walsh | Columbia University | Economic Fluctuations and Growth |
| Jeff Weaver | University of Southern California | Development Economics |
| Jhacova Williams | American University | Political Economy, Development of the American Economy |
| Nahim Zahur | Queen’s University | Environment and Energy Economics |
| *Appointment effective July 1, 2026. | ||
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