Welcome to the U.C. Davis Department of Economics
A smiling professor engaging in a discussion with a student in a UC Davis Economics classroom.
Our Undergraduate major is taught almost exclusively by regular full-time professorial faculty and is a U.S. government designated STEM degree. We graduate over 500 Economics majors a year who move on to a wide range of career paths. Our PhD program includes nine distinct seminar series and additional lunch-time seminars.
Our faculty interests lie in applications to public policy (such as globalization, migration, the environment, poverty and inequality, education, and macroeconomics) as well as microeconomic theory, behavioral economics, economic history and econometrics. Several faculty are leaders in various U.C. Davis multidisciplinary programs, including the Global Migration Center, the Center for Poverty and Inequality Research, and the Davis Energy Economics Program. Many faculty are research affiliates of the Boston-based National Bureau of Economic Research.
We are located in northern California, close to the state capital Sacramento, and in reasonable proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area and to Lake Tahoe.
