Faculty

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• Position: Assistant Professor of Economics
• Location: New Jersey Hall 209A
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Emilie Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers University.

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• Position: Assistant Professor of Economics
• Location: New Jersey Hall 301B
• Phone: 848-932-8457
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Joseph Fry joined the Department of Economics as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder. His research is in the field of econometrics, focusing on nonstandard inference problems and on panel data methods like Synthetic Control.

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• Position: Assistant Professor of Economics
• Location: New Jersey Hall 415
• Phone: 848-932-8643
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Michael Cai joined the Department of Economics as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2025. He holds a BS from New York University and a PhD from Northwestern University. His research is in macroeconomics and focuses on models with bounded rationality and heterogeneous agents.

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• Position: Assistant Professor of Economics
• Specialty: Development Economics, Child and Maternal Health, Nutrition, Violent Conflict, Family Planning, Education
• Location: New Jersey Hall 420
• Phone: 848-932-8616
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Daniel Maggio is an Assistant Professor and joined the Department of Economics in Fall 2024. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Cornell University in 2024 and holds an M.A. in Economics from Boston University. His work is positioned at the intersection of development and health economics, studying social protection programs and those intended to improve maternal and child health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Maggio has worked as a consultant at the World Bank and International Food Policy Research Institute and held a visiting position at the Oxford University Center for the Study of African Economies.