Curriculum Vitae
Education
Harvard University, 1992
Ph.D., Economics
Harvard College, 1985
A. B. Social Studies, Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Employment
Gates Professor of Developing Countries and Professor of Economics 2003 - Present
Co-chair, Co-founder, BREAD (The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development), 2001 – Present
Consultant, Development Economics Research Group (DECRG), The World Bank, 2001–Present
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1999 – Present
Professor of Economics, Harvard University, 1999 – 2003
Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998 – 1999
Faculty Associate, Harvard Institute for International Development, 1997 – 2000
Pentti Kouri Career Development Associate Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996 – 1998
Research Associate, Harvard Institute for International Development, 1995 – 1997
Pentti Kouri Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994 – 1996
Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993 – 1994
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 1993
Executive Director and Founder, WorldTeach, 1986–1989
Teacher and Administrator, Eshisiru Secondary School, Kakamega District, Kenya, 1985–1986
Fellowships
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003
Non-resident Fellow, Center for Global Development, 2002 – Present
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, 1998 – Present
Faculty Fellow, Center for International Development, 1998 – Present
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1993 – 1999
MacArthur Fellowship, 1997
Health and Aging Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996–1997
National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1994–1995
Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992 – 1993
National Science Foundation Fellowship, 1989 -1992
Honors
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 1996
Review of Economic Studies dissertation award recipient, 1992
Wells Prize for economics dissertation at Harvard, 1992
Editorial Positions
Associate Editor, Journal of Development Economics, 1999 – Present
Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998 – Present
Articles
"Ways to Spur Malaria Vaccine Research," (with Rachel Glennerster), forthcoming in The Economics of Malaria
"Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs: The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya," (with Paul Glewwe, Sylvie Moulin and Eric Zitzewitz), forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics. (NBER Working Paper 8018, 2000
"A Purchase Commitment for Vaccines," reprinted in Dyna Arhin-Tenkorang and Pedro ConceiçÂão, "Beyond Communicable Disease Control: Health in the Age of Globalization," in Inge Kaul, Pedro ConceiçÂão, Katell Le Goulven, and Ronald U. Mendoza (eds.), Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization, Oxford University Press, 2003
"Make Odious Debt Too Risky to Issue," (with Seema Jayachandran), Financial Times, May 8, 2003
"Odious Debt," (with Seema Jayachandran),Brookings Review, 21(2), Spring 2003
"Regional Public Goods and Health In Latin America," (with Jessica Leino), 2003
"A World of Junk-Status States," (with Seema Jayachandran), The Guardian (London), August 19, 2002
"Odious Debt," (with Seema Jayachandran), Brookings Institution Policy Brief #103, July 2002. Available at http://www.brookings.org/comm/policybriefs/pb103.htm
"Odious Debt," (with Seema Jayachandran), Finance and Development (IMF) , 39(2),June 2002
"Vouchers for Private Schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment," (with Josh Angrist, Eric Bettinger, Erik Bloom, and Elizabeth King), American Economic Review 92(5), December 2002, pp.1535–1558. (NBER Working Paper 8343, 2001
"Pharmaceuticals and the Developing World," Journal of Economic Perspectives 16(4), Fall 2002
"Income Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility," (with Daniel Chen), Journal of Economic Growth 7(3), September 2002, pp. 227–258. (NBER Working Paper 7530, 2000)
"The Impact of Development Assistance on Social Capital: Evidence from Kenya," (with Mary Kay Gugerty), in Christian Grootaert and Thierry van Bastelaer (eds.), The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment, Cambridge University Press, April 2002
"A Purchase Commitment for Vaccines," in Inge Kaul, Katell Le Goulven, and Mirjam Schnupf (eds.), Global Public Goods Financing: New Tools for New Challenges, A Policy Dialogue, UNDP/ODS, 2002
"Creating a Market for Vaccines," (with Rachel Glennerster), New York Times, June 1, 2001
"Stimulating Industrial R&D for Neglected Infectious Diseases: Economic Perspectives," (with David Webber), Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 79(8), 2001, pp. 693–801
"Does Favorable TaxTreatment of Housing Reduce Equipment Investment?," (with Ben Broadbent), Journal of Public Economics 81(3), 2001, pp. 369–391. (NBER Working Paper 6161, 1997
"Creating Markets for New Vaccines: Part I: Rationale," in Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern (eds.), Innovation Policy and the Economy, MIT Press, Volume 1, 2001
"Creating Markets for New Vaccines: Part II: Design Issues," in Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern (eds.), Innovation Policy and the Economy, MIT Press, Volume 1, 2001
"Searching for Prosperity," Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, (55), 2001, pp. 275–303
"A Commitment for Vaccines," (with Jessica Leino), translated into French as "Un engagement pour les vaccins," Biofutur (217), December 2001
"A Tax Credit for Sales of HIV, Malaria, and Tuberculosis Vaccines," (with Amir Attaran, Jeffrey Sachs, and Sara Sievers), 2000
"A Better Way to Spur Medical Research and Development," (with Rachel Glennerster), Regulation 23(2), 2000, pp. 34–39
"A World Bank Vaccine Commitment," (with Rachel Glennerster), Brookings Institution Policy Brief #57, May 2000. Available at http://www.brookings.edu/comm/policybriefs/pb57.htm
"Elephants," (with Charles Morcom), American Economic Review, March 2000, pp. 212–234. (NBER Working Paper 5674, 1996
"Improving School Quality in Developing Countries," in Anne O. Krueger (ed.), Economic Policy Reform: The Second Stage, University of Chicago Press, 2000
"A Cure for Indifference," (with Jeffrey Sachs), Financial Times, May 5, 1999.
"Income Distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility," (with Daniel Chen), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1999, pp. 155–160, (NBER Working Paper 7530) 2000
"AIDS: The Economic Rationale for Public Intervention," in Martha Ainsworth, Lieve Fransen, and Mead Over (eds.), Confronting AIDS: Evidence from the Developing World, The European Commission and the World Bank, 1998
"Restructuring Social Security Taxes," Brookings Institution Policy Brief #40, December 1998. Available at http://www.brookings.edu/comm/policybriefs/pb40.htm.
"Patent Buyouts: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1998, pp.1137–1167. (NBER Working Paper 6304, 1997). Reprinted in Alexander Tabarrok (ed.), Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science, Oxford University Press, 2002
"On the Effect of Changing Sexual Activity on HIV Prevalence," (with Charles Morcom), Mathematical Biosciences 151(1), July 1998, pp. 99–122
"Why Isn't Convergence Instantaneous? Young Workers, Old Workers, and Gradual Adjustment," (with Jim Thomson), Journal of Economic Growth 3(1), March 1998, pp. 5–28, NBER Working Paper 4827,1994
"Disorganization," (with Olivier Blanchard), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1997, pp. 1091–1126
"AIDS, Behavioral Choice, and the Composition of the Pool of Available Partners," Advances in Mathematical Population Dynamics: Molecules, Cells and Man Part II, Chapter 8, World Scientific Publishing Co., 1997, pp. 487–510
"How Much Does Sorting Increase Inequality?," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1997, pp. 115–139, NBER Working Paper 5566, 1996
"Integrating Behavioral Choice into Epidemiological Models of the AIDS Epidemic," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1996, pp. 549–573. (NBER Working Paper 5428, 1996
"Research on Schooling: What We Know and What We Don't: A Comment on Hanushek," The World Bank Research Observer (10), August 1995, pp. 247–254
"Saving and Growth: a Comment," Carnegie Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy (40), June 1994, pp. 193–197
"Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks," (with William Easterly, Lant Pritchett, and Lawrence Summers), Journal of Monetary Economics 32(3), 1993. (NBER Working Paper 4474, 1993)
"Population Growth and Technological Change: 1,000,000 B.C. to 1990," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 1993, pp. 681–716. Reprinted in Gene Grossman (ed.), Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence, Elgar Reference Collection, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics (68), 1996; and in Julian Simon (ed.), Population Economics, forthcoming
"The ORing Theory of Economic Development," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 1993, pp. 551–576. Translated into Portuguese as "A teoria 'anel em O' de desencolvimento econômico," Revista Brasileira de Economia, April/June 1995
Forthcoming Articles
"Use of Randomization in the Evaluation of Development Effectiveness," with Esther Duflo, Proceedings of the Conference on Evaluating Development Effectiveness
, World Bank Operations Evaluation Department (OED), Washington, D.C., July 15 – 16, 2003,
"Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities,"with Ted Miguel, Econometrica, NBER Working Paper 8481, 2001
"Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs: The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya," with Paul Glewwe, Sylvie Moulin and Eric Zitzewitz, Journal of Development Economics, NBER Working Paper 8018, 2000
"Randomized Evaluations of Educational Programs in Developing Countries: Some Lessons," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings
Articles Under Review
"Should Taxes be Independent of Age?," under revision for Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001
"Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill," (with Eric Maskin), under revision for Quarterly Journal of Economics. (NBER Working Paper 5718, 1996)
Works in Progress
"Empathy or Antipathy? The Consequences of Racially and Socially Diverse Peers on Attitudes and Behaviors," (with Greg Duncan, Johanne Boisjoly, Dan Levy, and Jacque Eccles), 2003
"Long-Term Consequences of Secondary School Vouchers: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia," (with Josh Angrist and Eric Bettinger), 2003
"Teacher Incentives," (with Paul Glewwe), NBER Working Paper 9671, 2003.
"Globalization and Inequality," (with Eric Maskin), 2003
"Peer Effects and Alcohol Use Among College Students," (with Dan Levy), 2003
"Decentralization: A Cautionary Tale," (with Sylvie Moulin and Robert Namunyu), 2003
"The Illusion of Sustainability," (with Ted Miguel), 2003
"Incentives in Markets, Firms, and Governments," (with Daron Acemoglu and Atif Mian), NBER Working Paper 9802, 2003
"Why Are Drugs More Profitable Than Vaccines?," (with Christopher Snyder), NBER Working Paper 9833, 2003
"Odious Debt," (with Seema Jayachandran), NBER Working Paper 8953, 2002
"Promoting School Participation in Rural Rajasthan: Results from Some Prospective Trials," (with Abhijit Banerjee and Suraj Jacob, with Jenny Lanjouw and Peter Lanjouw), 2002
"Encouraging Technical Progress in Tropical Agriculture," (with Alix Zwane), 2002
"A Biological Model of Unions," (with Ben Olken), NBER Working Paper 8257, 2001
"Globalization and International Public Finance," (with Paras Mehta), NBER Working Paper 7575, 2000
"Outside Funding of Community Organizations: Benefiting or Displacing the Poor?" (with Mary Kay Gugerty), NBER Working Paper 7896, 2000
"Stimulating R&D on Vaccines for AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: The Role of Tax Credits for Sales of Vaccines to Non-Profit Organizations," 2000
"Why Do Governments Operate Schools?," (with Andrei Sarychev), 1998
"Why are Worker Cooperatives So Rare?," NBER Working Paper 6118, 1997
"The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff in Education: Evidence from a Prospective Evaluation in Kenya," (with Sylvie Moulin, David Myatt, and Robert Namunyu), 1997
"Textbooks and Test Scores: Evidence from a Prospective Evaluation in Kenya," (with Paul Glewwe and Sylvie Moulin), 1997
"Can Having Fewer Partners Increase the Prevalence of AIDS?," NBER Working Paper 4942, 1994