Announcements
The Brown Economics Department is excited to announce the addition of three new faculty this semester. Emily Oster and Jesse Shapiro, previously of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, have been visitors of the Department for the past few months and join our regular faculty in January, 2015. John Friedman joins our faculty for the first time this same month, moving to Brown from Harvard.
John Friedman is joining Brown from the Harvard Kennedy School. His research brings together theory and data, harnessing the power of large administrative datasets to yield policy-relevant insights on a wide range of topics, including taxation, healthcare, and education quality. He also returned recently to academia from working in the White House on many of these issues. At Brown, he will teach a new course on Public Economics for Ph.D. students in the spring.
Emily Oster has been teaching at the Department of Economics and at the Booth school of Business at the University of Chicago since earning her Ph.D. at Harvard in 2006. She is known for her work on health economics and will be teaching a freshman seminar on data and its limits in fall semester.
Jesse Shapiro is also joining us from the Booth school at Chicago, where he has been Professor of Economics since 2010. He has been at Chicago since earning his Ph.D. at Harvard in 2005. He is known for work on urban economics, political economy, and other topics. He will teach a new course on the economics of mass media during fall semester.