Michael Darden

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of North Carolina

B.A. North Carolina State University

Research interests: health economics, applied microeconometrics

mdarden1@tulane.edu

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Short bio

Darden’s research interests lie broadly in applied microeconomics and specifically in the economics of health and information. He is specifically interested in the application of less-parametric models of unobserved heterogeneity such as the discrete factor method for random effects.

Darden has presented at several conferences, including the Seventh Annual International Health Economics Association’s World Congress in Beijing, China, the Second Annual Health Econometrics Workshop at the University of Michigan, and the Triangle Health Economic Workshop at Duke University. Darden received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011.

Lopamudra Chakraborti

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Ph.D. University of Maryland- College Park

Research interests: applied microeconomics, econometric modeling, and environmental and resource economics

Office: Richardson Hall, Murphy Institute Suite, Room 303

Phone: (504) 314-7352

lchakrab@tulane.edu

Sebastian Leguizamon

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Ph.D. West Virginia University

Research interests: economic evaluation of public policies at the state and local levels; impact of government policies on certain economic outcomes; inclusion of spatial econometrics to measure the effect of neighbors' policies on a jurisdiction's economic development

Office: Richardson Hall, Murphy Institute Suite, Room 302

Phone: (504) 314-7358

jleguiza@tulane.edu

Susane Leguizamon

Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D. West Virginia University

Research interests: public economics, spatial econometrics, international economics, urban economics

Office: Tilton Hall 203

Phone: (504) 862-8346

sleguiza@tulane.edu

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Donn Pescatrice

Adjunct Professor

Ph.D. Purdue University

Research interests: mathematical economics, monetary economics, investment theory

Office: Tilton Hall 309A

Phone: (504) 314-7369

dpescatr@tulane.edu

Nantaporn Plurphanswat

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago

Research interests: health economics, economic demography, applied
microeconomics, and applied econometrics

Office: Richardson Hall, Murphy Institute Suite, Room 305

Phone: (504) 314-7357

nplurpha@tulane.edu