Welcome to my website. I am a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). I received a B.S in Economics, a B.A. in History, and a B.A. in Math from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 1998. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. My Ph.D. advisor was Jean-Laurent Rosenthal with Ken Sokoloff and Naomi Lamoreaux on my committee. I have been at UCI since 2003, with visiting appointments at Caltech and NYU.
My research interests are in economic history, urban economics, economic growth, and political economy. My research specialty is the economic history of transportation in Britain, India, and from a global perspective. I study how transport has evolved in the past depending on the economic and institutional environment. I also examine the economic impacts of transport improvements on market, aggregate, and local-level outcomes. I address such topics by introducing new historical datasets and combining them with various statistical tools and geographic information systems. My research is published in leading academic journals, including the Economic Journal, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Economic History, Journal of Urban Economics, and the Economic History Review. I have received research funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and others.
I teach various economics courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, with a specialty in economic history and upper division writing. I have been the advisor for more than a dozen Ph.D. students at UCI. I was the editor of the Journal of Economic History and the European Review of Economic History.
My hobbies are playing tennis, hiking, and listening to music.
Office
Social Science Plaza
Building A, Room 3109
Mailing address
Department of Economics
University of California-Irvine
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA 92697-5100 USA
E-mail (Best way to contact me)
dbogart at uci dot edu