Marla Ripoll
University of Pittsburgh
Associate Professor of Economics
Marla Ripoll joined the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Economics in 2000 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester. Although initially interested in understanding the role of credit in explaining recessions and expansions of the economy, her most recent research centers on development economics. Marla's interests in this field range from technology creation and adoption, to inequality and agricultural development, and more recently to schooling and demographics. Her work has appeared in various academic journals including Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. Her courses at Pitt have covered international trade, development economics and macroeconomics both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her favorite course is development economics because this is the class that relates most closely to her research, and is also the class that best reflects her initial interest in pursuing economics as an undergraduate in Colombia, her country of origin. Marla has been awarded the 2004 Tina and David Bellet Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, as well as the 2009 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. Marla is currently a member of the editorial board of ESPE, the journal of Colombia's Central Bank. In addition, she has acted as referee or reviewer for over 15 academic journals and/or research foundations, and has also participated in a number of conferences.
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Email: ripoll@pitt.edu
Homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~ripoll