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Revision as of 12:41, 14 October 2019

For the philosopher, see Michael Kremer (philosopher).
Michael Kremer
Born
Michael Robert Kremer

(1964-11-12) November 12, 1964 (age 54)
EducationHarvard University (BA, MA, PhD)
AwardsNobel Prize in Economics (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopment economics
Health economics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral advisorRobert Barro
Doctoral studentsEdward Miguel[1]
InfluencedEsther Duflo

Michael Robert Kremer (born November 12, 1964)[2] is an American development economist who is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University. In 2019 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo,[3] "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."[4]

Kremer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (1997)[5] and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has also focused his research on charitable causes in effort to help suffering people throughout the world. Kremer is a research affiliate at Innovations for Poverty Action, a New Haven, Connecticut-based research outfit dedicated to creating and evaluating solutions to social and international development problems. Kremer is a member of Giving What We Can, an international society for the promotion of poverty relief.[6] He is founder and president of WorldTeach, a Harvard-based organization which places college students and recent graduates as volunteer teachers on summer and year-long programs in developing countries around the world.

Kremer started the advanced market commitment, which focuses on creating incentive mechanisms to encourage the development of vaccines for use in developing countries, and the use of randomized trials to evaluate interventions in the social sciences. He created the well-known economic theory regarding skill complementarities called Kremer's O-Ring Theory of Economic Development.

Kremer proposed one of the most convincing explanations for the phenomenon of the World System population hyperbolic growth observed prior to the early 1970s, as well as the economic mechanisms of the demographic transition. Kremer has also presented his research in the field of human capital at the International Growth Centre's Growth Week 2010.

Kremer graduated from Harvard University (A.B. in Social Studies in 1985 and Ph.D. in Economics in 1992). He was a postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1992 to 1993, visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago in Spring 1993, and professor at MIT from 1993 to 1999. Since 1999, he has been a professor at Harvard.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ "The political economy of education and health in Kenya / a thesis presented by Edward Andrew Miguel". Research Kenya. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  2. ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  3. ^ Wearden, Graeme (2019-10-14). "Nobel Prize in Economics won by Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer - live updates". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  4. ^ "The Prize in Economic Sciences 2019" (PDF) (Press release). Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. October 14, 2019.
  5. ^ "MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  6. ^ "Members". www.givingwhatwecan.org.
  7. ^ "Curriculum Vitae (Michael Kremer)" (PDF). Harvard University. Retrieved 14 October 2019.

Bibliography

  • Kremer, Michael; Glennerster, Rachel (2004), Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases, Princeton: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12113-3
  • Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action, Center for Global Development, 2005
  • Kremer, Michael (1993), "Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The MIT Press, 108 (3): 681–716, doi:10.2307/2118405, JSTOR 2118405

External links

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