AEASP 2025 Faculty Matthew White

Matthew N. White is an economist at Econ-ARK, a non-profit developer of open source computing tools for structural economic research. After growing up in New Hampshire, he did my undergraduate studies at Cornell University, and then pursued graduate study in economics at Johns Hopkins University. After receiving his PhD, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware from 2013 to 2023, and held a Visiting Scholar position at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2015-16. His research spans heterogeneous agents macroeconomics and health economics, with projects examining the distributional impact of health insurance reform policies. He also develops new methods for solving dynamic stochastic optimization problems, and for efficiently representing them numerically. This work includes being the original designer and programmer for HARK, the Heterogeneous Agents Resources and toolKit. He is an instructor for Advanced Research Methods in the AEA Summer Program.