David Brownstone

Dissertation: An Econometric Model of Consumer Durable Choice and Utilization Rate

Advisor: Daniel McFadden

PhD Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1980

MS Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1977

BA Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1975

University of California, Irvine - Present 

• Faculty AssociateITS-Irvine
• Professor EmeritusDepartment of EconomicsSchool of Social SciencesUC Irvine
• Executive Committee MemberITS-Irvine

David Brownstone is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and he is also a member of UCI’s Institute of Transportation Studies and Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. Before coming to UCI in 1984, Brownstone taught economics at Princeton University and the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. He is a former chair of the UCI Committee on Academic Personnel, and he was the former chair of the UCI Graduate Council and the Department of Economics. Professor Brownstone has studied the impacts of tax reform on housing demand, the impacts of measurement errors in economic surveys, the demand for alternative-fueled vehicles, the demand for high-speed rail, and the impacts of carpool lanes and road pricing. Professor Brownstone has served as an expert consultant for toll road, high speed rail, and other major transportation projects in Orange County, California, Australia, and The Netherlands. He is currently consulting with the California Energy Commission to improve their forecasting models. Brownstone has published many articles in top economics and transportation journals, and he currently has served on the editorial boards of Economics of Transportation, Journal of Choice Modeling, Transportation Research (Part B: Methodological) and Foundations and Trends in Econometrics.