Charles I. Jones

Charles "Chad" Irving Jones is STANCO 25 Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He studies growth theory and economic development.

Education
Jones earned his AB from Harvard University in 1989 and his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993.

Academic contributions
Jones writes extensively on growth theory especially endogenous growth theory to which he contributed, inter alia, in 1995 his Jones model.

He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020.