Faculty

• Position: Assistant Professor of Economics
• Location: New Jersey Hall
• Email: andrew.k.mackenzie@rutgers.edu

Andrew Mackenzie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and joined the faculty in Fall 2024.

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• Position: Assistant Professor of Economics
• Specialty: High-Dimensional Econometrics, Time Series, Big Data, Machine Learning, Causal Inference, Finance
• Location: New Jersey Hall 403
• Phone: 848-932-8649
• Email: gm828@economics.rutgers.edu
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Kenwin Maung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and joined the faculty in Fall 2023. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. Kenwin's areas of research interest include high-dimensional econometrics, time series, big data, machine learning, causal inference, and finance.

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• Position: Assistant Professor of Economics
• Specialty: Public and Urban Economics
• Location: New Jersey Hall 201A
• Phone: 848-932-8457
• Email: hector.blanco@rutgers.edu
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Hector joined the Department of Economics in Fall 2023. His areas of interest are public economics and urban economics, with a special focus on housing. His current research studies how affordable housing policies shape neighborhoods and the lives of their residents. Hector was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NYU Furman Center, holds his M.S. in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2022.

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• Position: Associate Professor of Economics
• Specialty: Economic History, Health Economics, Labor Economics
• Location: New Jersey Hall 209B
• Phone: 848-932-8261
• Email: martin.saavedra@rutgers.edu
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Martin is an Associate Professor of Economics and joined Rutgers in Fall 2023. He was previously the William and Jeanette Smith Associate Professor of Economics at Oberlin College and holds a B.S.B.A. from the Catholic University of American and both M.A. and Ph.D in Economics from University of Pittsburgh. Martin primarily works in the fields of economic history, health economics, and labor economics, with research interests that include the economics of infectious disease, infant health, and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. His current projects use natural language processing techniques to measure sentiment in historical newspapers. Martin currently serves on the Editorial Board of Explorations in Economic History.