Kevin Kuruc

Kevin Kuruc is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Middlebury College and a Research Affiliate of the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin and has previously spent time consulting for the International Monetary Fund.

His research is primarily in macroeconomics—specifically growth and development—as well as agricultural and environmental economics. Recently, he has been thinking and writing about issues at the intersection of demographic change, technological progress, and sustainability. This line of work has been motivated by the decline in birth rates that appears like it will lead to an unprecedented and potentially enduring decline in the size of the human population.

Within agricultural economics, his focus is on animal welfare as an economic externality—an idea that is underexplored in the discipline.