Matthias Doepke

University of California and CEPR

Matthias Doepke is an Associate Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He is also a Research Affiliate of CEPR, a Faculty Research Fellow of NBER, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Growth, the Journal of Human Capital, the Review of Economic Dynamics, and Macroeconomic Dynamics. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2000 and was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2005. His research is focused on understanding the determinants of long-run economic growth. He has worked on the interaction of economic growth and demographic change, the role of political and social reforms during the transition to growth, and cultural factors in economic development. He is also interested in monetary economics, and in particular the redistributional effects of inflation.