IMF names top 25 economists under age 45

August 27, 2014
Justin Wolfers
Justin Wolfers is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan.

Awardees | Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), Roland Fryer, and Parag Parthak  

Justin Wolfers has made the International Monetary Fund's "Generation Next" list, "25 economists under 45 who are shaping the way we think about the global economy."

Wolfers is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan.

Harvard leads the list with six faculty members named, including Roland Fryer, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics, who is a faculty affiliate of the Inequality & Social Policy Program.

Also making the list with an Inequality & Social Policy connection is former undergraduate Galbraith Scholar Parag Parthak ('01), now a professor of economics at MIT.

View the full list in Finance & Development, the IMF's quarterly magazine.