The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has honored four exceptional economists with 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships:
- Loukas Karabarbounis, associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
- Neale Mahoney, assistant professor of economics at Chicago Booth
- Nathaniel Hendren, 2015 visitor to the institute and Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
- Benjamin Moll, 2015 visitor to the institute and Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
The fellowships represent a show of support for the groundbreaking work each economist has demonstrated in their recent work.
As a macroeconomist and public policy scholar, Karabarbounis studies labor markets, inequality, business cycles and international finance. His latest research focuses on topics such as the global decline of labor’s share of income, productivity and capital flows in southern Europe, and the effects of unemployment insurance policy on aggregate outcomes.
Mahoney examines questions of consumer credit markets and health care. research on health insurance, he has examined asymmetric information, market power, and the interaction between health insurance and personal bankruptcy.
Hendren examines the role of private information in preventing the existence of private insurance markets, the welfare measurements of government policies and methods of interpersonal comparisons, and intergenerational mobility.
Moll’s research focuses on the importance of credit market imperfections in explaining cross-country income differences, the role of policy in alleviating them, the determinants of cross-country differences in human capital accumulation and the role of knowledge diffusion in the growth process.
This year’s 126 Sloan Research Fellows come from 52 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The fellowships honor early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars: the next generation of scientific leaders. Fellows receive $50,000 to further their research.