Welcome to the Department of Economics at Tulane University. The main areas in which faculty members conduct research and teach courses are development economics (focusing on inequality and poverty), the economics of education, health economics, and public economics, as well as in economic history, international economics, and core areas of econometrics and economic theory. The Department has 19 regular faculty members, 4 postdoctoral teaching fellows, 2 visiting or adjunct professors, over 300 undergraduate majors, almost 40 graduate students, and 4 affiliated research centers.
"The Tulane Department of Economics is a special place. Our world-renowned faculty not only publishes in the profession's top journals, but has a real impact in solving real-world economic problems. The relevance and excitement of that work carries over to the classroom where we have some of the best instructors you will ever see." – Douglas N. Harris, Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics
Tulane Economics in the News
The General Assembly of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ) appointed our own Nora Lustig as president of the organization. Prof. Lustig is the first woman to be elected president. Her term is for the period 2023-2025.
Patrick Button received the prestigious CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation for $400,000. This five-year career development grant funds comprehensive research and educational program on discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, African Americans, and Hispanics, and studying access to mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gary “Hoov” Hoover, the director of Tulane University’s Murphy Institute and a leading economist on issues of economic policy and its impact on inequality, has been nominated for Vice-President of the American Economic Association.