Michael Kremer
Michael Robert Kremer (born November 12, 1964 ) is an American economist . He is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and recipient of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics in 2019.
Life
Kremer studied social studies at Harvard ( BA , 1985). From 1985 to 1986 he was a teacher at a school in the Kakamega District , Kenya , and from 1986 to 1989 he was director of the non-governmental organization WorldTeach . In 1992 he graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in economics. In 1993 he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he was a professor from 1998 to 1999.
Kremer has been teaching at Harvard since 1999, where he is Gates Professor of Developing Societies at the Faculty of Economics. He also conducts research at the National Bureau of Economic Research , the Brookings Institution and the Center for International Development . In 2010 he also became Scientific Director of Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
He is married to the Chief Economist of the UK Department of International Development DFID and former Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab , Rachel Glennerster.
Act
Kremer's research areas are education and health in developing countries, immigration and globalization.
Honors
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
- Nobel Prize in Economics 2019 together with Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- MacArthur Fellowship
- Presidential Faculty Fellowship
- Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
- Scientific American : Scientific American's 50 researchers of the year 2006
Publications (selection)
- Michael Kremer (1993): The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 108: 551-575.
- Michael Kremer (1993): Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million BC to 1990. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 108: 681-716.
- William Easterly , Michael Kremer, Lant Pritchett, Lawrence Summers (1993): Good policy or good luck? Country growth performance and temporary shocks. Journal of Monetary Economics 32: 459-483.
- Olivier Blanchard & Michael Kremer (1997): Disorganization. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 112: 1091-1126.
- Edward Miguel & Michael Kremer (2004): Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities. Econometrica 72: 159-217.
- Michael Kremer & Rachel Glennerster: Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases . Princeton University Press, 2004. ISBN 0691121133 .
Web links
- Kremer on the Harvard website
- Michael Kremer in the catalog of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics (ZBW)
- Lecture by Kremer on education systems in developing countries, September 22, 2010, London School of Economics
Individual evidence
- ↑ Phillip Inman: Economics Nobel prize won by academics for tackling poverty . In: The Guardian . October 14, 2019, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed November 26, 2019]).
- ↑ The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2019 (American English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kremer, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kremer, Michael Robert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1964 |