Over 300 students have participated in the AIER Summer Fellowship Program, most subsequently completing their Ph.D. in economics. Our alumni have gone on to careers in academia, law, government, consulting, finance, international organizations, think tanks, policy firms, central banks and more.

Where are they now?

Judith Chevalier, 1988 alumnus, is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics & Deputy Provost for Faculty Development at the Yale University School of Management where she has taught since 2001.

Professor Chevalier has been widely recognized for her research in the areas of both finance and industrial organization. For example, her recent research on state casket sales and regulations found that when courts lift funeral goods sales restrictions, the prices of funeral goods fall but the prices of funeral services rise by nearly as much.

In 1999, she won the first biennial Elaine Bennett prize given by the American Economic Association in recognition of research by a young woman in any area of economics. She is an elected member of the executive committee of the American Economic Association, and a co-editor of the American Economic Review.

Dr. Chevalier graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1989 and completed her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.

Her research and insights on current economic issues will now be read by hundreds of thousands of people as she is now a regular contributor to the New York Times’ “Economic View” column.

Douglas Irwin, 1985 alumnus, is the Robert E. Maxwell Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College where he has taught since 1997. Professor Irwin is one of the world’s leading experts on trade policy.

He is the author of Free Trade Under Fire (now in its second edition) which was selected as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Books for 2003. The book explores why global trade has become so controversial and whether free trade deserves its bad reputation. He has also authored or edited six additional books, over 60 articles and numerous policy papers and newspaper articles on trade policy.

Professor Irwin is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the editor of the World Trade Review and is currently working on a history of U.S. trade policy from colonial days to the present.

Prior to his appointment at Dartmouth, Dr. Irwin spent six years teaching at the University of Chicago. He has also served on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1988 and his B.A. in Political Science in 1984 from the University of New Hampshire.