Andreas Ferrara, Ph.D.
Dr. Andreas "Andy" Ferrara is an economic historian working on topics related to labor economics and political economy including migration, discrimination, and culture. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Warwick, UK, and has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh since the fall of 2019. His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Labor Economics, among others. He has recently been appointed as a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER’s program on the Development of the American Economy. He has been teaching the Big Data and Forecasting in Economics class since the start of the program. Read more about his MQE experiences here.
David Huffman, Ph.D.
Professor Huffman received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. He has worked at IZA, a research institute in Bonn, Germany; as an assistant and associate professor at Swarthmore College; as an associate professor at University of Oxford; and as full professor at University of Pittsburgh since 2015. His research has had two main strands. One is basic research in behavioral economics, which seeks to understand human nature and the determinants of individual economic decision making. The second strand is more applied, focused mainly on questions in labor economics, and involving partnering with private sector firms. A particular focus of his research in this area has been studying psychological aspects of how employees respond to workplace incentives. Professor Huffman teaches the Capstone Course in the MQE program. Read more about Professor Huffman's MQE experiences here.
Claire Duquennois, Ph.D.
Claire Duquennois, Assistant Professor of Economics, began teaching at the University of Pittsburgh in 2020. Formerly, Claire was a Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, at the locations of both Denver and Beijing. She received her PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics, and teaches in Labor, Development, and Behavioral Economics. One of Claire’s key courses is Economic Inference from Data. Her course is structured around hands-on experience in applied econometric methods, where students build empirical relationships with cause and effect. Learn more about Professor Duquennois's experiences in the MQE program here.
Randall Walsh, Ph.D.
Randall P. Walsh is a Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research is focused in the areas of urban and environmental economics. In more recent work he has been particularly interested in looking at these issues through the lenses of economic history and political economy. Professor Walsh teaches in the MQE Program, advises students, and develops relationships with professional partners. He teaches the Evidence-Based Analysis in Labor, Public, and Health Economics course in the MQE program. Learn more about Professor Walsh's experience in the MQE program here.