Development economists at Michigan study such diverse topics as agriculture, international migration, political economy, economic history, microfinance, health, education, firms, and the environment. It is an eclectic subfield, drawing on all other subfields of economics. Students studying development at Michigan can tap faculty across all other subfields in the department, as well as from other units on campus such as the schools of public policy, business, information, environment and sustainability, and public health. Development faculty at Michigan from all these units consider themselves an integrated group, gather weekly at the Economic Development Seminar (EDS), and co-advise Ph.D. students’ dissertations. For further information, please see the Development Economics @ Michigan website.
Faculty in the Field
Primary Appointment within the Economics Department
Primary Appointment outside the Economics Department
Ross School of Business
School for Evironment and Sustainability
School of Public Health
Ford School of Public Policy
Ross School of Business
School of Information & Department of Economics (courtesy)
Recent Graduate Student Placement Locations
Ashoka University
Duke University
IMF
Inter-American Development Bank
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Loyola Marymount
Mathematica
NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Peking University
Penn State
Princeton University
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
University of Alabama
University of Maryland
University of Minnesota
University of Washington
William and Mary
Seminars, Reading Groups, Lunches, etc.
Economic Development Seminar (Thursday afternoons)
Health, History, Development and Demography Lunch Seminar (H2D2) (Wednesdays)
