Charles I. Jones

Professor

Fields: Macroeconomics, economic growth

Research interests: Idea-based growth models; the nature of technological change; sources of US economic growth; long-run determinants of the health expenditure share of GDP; semi-endogenous growth models; very long-run growth; the productivity of nations

Charles I. Jones joined Berkeley in 2001 as an associate professor. He became a full professor in 2004. He also is a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Jones received his PhD in 1993 from MIT, the same year he joined the Stanford faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. In 2000 he was named a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow. Prior to that appointment, he was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.