Michael R. Kremer
Gates Professor of Developing Countries and Professor of Economics
Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
Address:
Harvard University
Department of Economics
Littauer Center 207
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.9145
Fax: 617.495.7730
Email: mkremer@fas.
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
[*Economics 3390hf. Research in Economic Development]
Biography
Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Countries and Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His recent research includes work on the evaluation of health and educational programs in developing countries; incentives for research and development on malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and other diseases affecting developing countries; and sovereign debt. He is the co-author with Rachel Glennerster of Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases (2004) and "Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness," (with Esther Duflo), Proceedings of the Conference on Evaluating Development Effectiveness, July 15-16, 2003, the World Bank Operations Evaluation Department (OED) Washington, D.C. His articles have been published in economics journals including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Professor Kremer received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1985, and his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1992. He previously served as a teacher in Kenya. He founded and was the first executive director of WorldTeach, a non-profit organization that places one hundred volunteer teachers annually in developing countries (1986-1989). He is a recipient of a MacArthur "genius" fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship.
Recent Publications
With Rachel Glennerster: Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases, (Princeton University Press, 2004)