Robert Barro | |
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| Born | September 28, 1944 New York City, U.S. |
| Education | California Institute of Technology (BS) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Spouse | Rachel McCleary |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Macroeconomics |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| School or tradition | New classical macroeconomics |
| Doctoral advisor | Zvi Griliches |
| Doctoral students | Zvi Hercowitz Xavier Sala-i-Martin Xavier Gabaix George-Marios Angeletos Emi Nakamura Michael Kremer |
| Contributions | Ricardian equivalence hypothesis Economic growth Time consistency |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Robert Joseph Barro (born September 28, 1944) is an American macroeconomist and the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University.[1] Barro is considered one of the founders of new classical macroeconomics, along with Robert Lucas Jr. and Thomas J. Sargent.[2] He is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and co-editor of the influential Quarterly Journal of Economics.[3]