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CURRICULUM VITAE 29 March 2014 Jere R CURRICULUM VITAE 29 March 2014 Jere R. Behrman Department of Economics, 160 McNeil Offices McNeil 229, 536 3718 Locust Walk University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297, USA Telephone: 1 (215) 898 7704 (office) Fax Number: 1 (215) 898 2124, (back up) 1 (215) 573 2057 e-mail: [email protected] Citizenship: United States of America Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Ph.D., 1962-1966. Doctoral Dissertation: "Supply Response in Underdeveloped Agriculture: A Case Study of Major Annual Crops in Thailand, 1937-1963," 1966. Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Highest Honors in Physics, 1958-1962. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Russian Language Institute, Summers, 1960-61. Honors, Invited Lectures, Scholarships, and Fellowships: Invited presentation on “Costs of Inaction versus Costs of Action” at The Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC), in collaboration with the IOM's Board on Global Health Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally Workshop on the Cost of Inaction April 17- 18, 2014. Invited presentation on “Post-Infancy Growth and Associations with Cognitive Achievement”, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, 10 March 2014. Invited Lecture on “Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Young Lives,” Discussion Panel on Social Mobility organized by Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, Latin American and Carribean Economic Association Annual Conference, Mexico City, Colegio de Mexico, 31 October – 2 November 2013. Irving B. Kravis Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Teaching, Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania 2013. National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Committee on Population, 2012- Economics/Social Science member of the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) for 2011-14. Invited Presentation on “Population Quantity, Quality and Mobility” at Global Citizens Foundation Project on Towards a Better Global Economy High-Level Conferences, Geneva, Switzerland, 11-13 July 2013. Invited Plenary Lecture on “Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Young Lives,” Conference on “Inequalities in Children’s Outcomes in Developing Countries,” St Anne's College, Oxford, UK. 8-9 July 2013 Invited Lecture on "Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools" at conference on Human Resources and Economic Development, June 24-25, 2013 at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, supported by HKUST’s Department of Economics, Division of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, and Institute for Emerging Market Studies. Invited Lecture on “La primera infancia: perspectivas internacionales” presented at seminar on "Desarrollo en la Primera Infancia: Evidencia longitudinal, “Universidad de Chile, Santiago 21 March 2013. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad de Chile, 13 December 2011, invited lecture on “From Macro Econometric Analysis to Early Childhood Development” Invited Lecture on “Making Early Childhood Interventions Effective” at El Impacto del Desarrollo de la Primera Infanica en las Education y er Mercado Laboral” at the University of Chile on 8 November 2011 Invited Lecutre on “Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Patterns in Chilean Early Childhood Development: Associations with Income and Other Factors” at Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association Annual Meetings 9-12 November 2011 at Adolfo Ibanez University, Santiago Chile. Invited Lecture on “Primera Infancia: una inversión en el desarrollo humano,” Foro: Primera Infancia: Asegurando el Futro Hoy (Early Childhood Development Forum), Sponsored by H.S. Marta Linares de Martinelli, Primera Dama de la República y Presidenta del Consejo Asesor de la Primera Infancia, Ministerio de Desarrollo Social and Inter- American Development Bank, Panama City, Panama 20 October 2011. Invited Lecture on "Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools" Intemational Workshop on "Poverty and Individual Decisions in Developing Countries: What do We Learn from Microeconometrics?" The Research Department of the Agence Française de Dévelopement (AFD) and the Research Centre in Economic Development and Intemational Finance (DEFÐ of Aix-Marseille University, October 13 2Oll, World Trade Center, Marseille, France. Invited Lecture on “Health, Nutrition, Education and Equity” at World Bank Conference on "Equity, Development and Policy: Evidence, New Ideas & Future Directions," Washington, DC: World Bank, 10 June 2011. Invited International Expert Participant in “Foro Técnico Sobre la Atención Integral de la Primaria Infancia”, Presidential Program “de Cero a Siempre”, Presidential Palace-Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 21 February 2011. Invited Lecture at Meeting on “Desarrollo de la Primera Infancia: Evidencia internacional, políticas públicas y nuevo datos para Chile”, Santiago, Chile 13 December 2010. Invited Lecture at Latin American Population Association (ALAP) fourth Congress, Hotel Nacional, Havana, Cuba, November 16-19, 2010. Invited Lecture at Latin American and Caribbean Economic Society (LACEA) Annual Meetings, Medellin, Colombia 11- 13 November 2010. 2009 Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Science Award in the Outstanding Scientific Article category for “The Impact of Nutrition During Early Childhood on Income, Hours Worked, and Wages of Guatemalan Adults (with John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Rafael Flores and Reynaldo Martorell),” Lancet 371 (February 2008), 411-416. Invited speaker and “give my right arm” commentator on Ph.D. work, Princeton University Joint Degree Program on Dilemmas in Inequality, 19 October 2009 (rescheduled 11 January 2010). Invited speaker, Latin American and Caribbean Economics Society Annual Meetings, 1-3 October 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Invited keynote speaker, Society of Labor Economics (SOLE) Annual Meetings, 6-9 May 2009, Boston, MA. Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize 2008 (Biennial Award of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Society (LACEA) for outstanding research on economics and Latin America, awarded and invited lecture at LACEA Annual Meetings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-22 November 2008. Invited Keynote Speaker, “Research Evidence on Early Education Investment Returns,” International Seminar on “The Impact of Early Education” sponsored by Chilean Board of National Day Care Centers (JUNJI), 5-7 November 2008. Invited Keynote Speaker, session on "Seguimiento, Monitoreo y Evaluación" at Regional Technical Conference on "Hacia la eradicación de la Desnutrición Infantil en América Latina y El Caribe," El Gobierno de Chile, el Programa Mundial de Alimentos de las Naciones Unidas para América Latina y el Caribe (PMA), y el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) en representación del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas, Santiago de Chile, 5 y 6 de mayo de 2008. Premio de Economía Víctor L. Urquidi (second place) for ““Do school subsidy programs generate lasting benefits? A five-year follow-up of Oportunidades participants” (with Susan Parker and Petra Todd), Mexico City, Colegio de Mexcio, 4 December 2007. Invited Expert Panel Member, Latin American Copenhagen Consensus, San Jose, Costa Rica, 22-24 October 2007. Invited Keynote Speaker on “A Researcher's Viewpoint on Policy Issues Relating to ‘What have we learned, and what’s next?’ on the MDGs,” Policy Conference on Reaching the MDGs, Sixth General Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network Meeting, Sheraton Lima Hotel, Paseo de la Republica 170, Lima, Peru, 9-16 June 2007. Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) and Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico City, Mexico, 2-4 November, 2006. Invited Keynote Speaker, United Nations University (UNU)-World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) Conference on Health Deprivation and Inequality, 29-30 September 2006, Helsinkii, Finland. Invited Keynote Speaker, Symposium “Capital Humano, Crecimiento, Pobreza: Problemática Mexicana” Department of Economics, Monterrey, NL Mexico 13-14 October 2005. Distinguished Visitor, Economics Department, University of California-Riverside, May 2005. Invited Keynote Speaker at The Graduate School for Integration, Production and Welfare Workshop on “Analyses of Intergenerational Issues – A Workshop with Jere R. Behrman,” June 7-8, 2004, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus, Denmark. Invited Keynote Speaker at AMID & CAM, University of Copenhagen, Workshop on “From Parent to Child – A Workshop with Jere R. Behrman,” 8-9 June 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark. Wei Lun Visiting Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 2004. Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Senior Fellow, 2002- Invited Keynote Speech on “The Social Benefits of Education: Conceptual and Measurement Issues,” Conference on "Wider (non-economic) Benefits of Learning," Institute of Education, London, July 2001. Invited Lecturer on Health Economics, Departamento de Economia, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, November 2000. Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Universidad de Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18-24 August 1994. Committee
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