Panle Jia Barwick
Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor, UW-Madison
Panle Jia Barwick is the Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor in the Economics Department at UW-Madison. She is a faculty research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at Center for Economic Policy Research. Her research interests are empirical industrial organization, the Chinese economy, and applied econometrics, with a strong interest in environmental economics. She co-founded Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER) and UW-Madison’s Pan Asia Pacific Sustainability Initiative (PAPSI) and now serves as CICER’s board member and PAPSI’s co-director. She is an associate editor of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Perspective, Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, and the International Journal of Industrial Organization. She also serves on the editorial board of VoxChina. Before UW-Madison, she was an assistant and associate professor in the Economics Department at MIT from 2006 to 2013, and an associate professor and professor in the Economics Department at Cornell from 2013 to 2022. She received degrees in Economics from Fudan University (B.A.), Tufts University (M.A.), and Yale University (Ph.D.).
