Faculty

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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. 

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• Position: Assistant Professor of Economics
• Specialty: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
• Location: New Jersey Hall 417
• Phone: 848-932-8697
• Email: r.kaiser@rutgers.edu
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Rosemary joined the Department of Economics in Fall 2022. She holds a B.S. in Economics from Ball State University and received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2022. Rosemary's research focuses on macroeconomics and labor economics, and she has analyzed topics such as labor force participation, business and life cycle implications of alternative work arrangements, and domestic labor outsourcing. 

• Position: Teaching Instructor
• Location: New Jersey Hall 106B
• Email: raystone@economics.rutgers.edu