Markus Paul Goldstein

MARKUS PAUL GOLDSTEIN

EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley. Agricultural and Resource Economics, MS, 1996, PhD 2000.

Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. 1992-1994. Studied for Masters in Public Policy but left for employment purposes.

Swarthmore College. Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors in Political Science and Economics. June 1992.

University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana. Enrolled in the Institute of African Studies, Spring 1991.

EXPERIENCE Lecturer, London School of Economics. Teach courses in the Development Studies Institute and conduct research in conjunction with the Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (August 2000-).

Research Associate, Economic Growth Center, Yale University. Conducted research on household economic dynamics and agricultural practices with Prof. Christopher Udry (December 1998-July 2000)

Research Associate and Lecturer, Institute of Social, Statistical and Economic Research, Legon, Ghana. Designed and supervised an agricultural smallholder survey. Responsible for managing a field staff of 12 people. Twice taught a course in Development Studies in the M.Phil. program. (September1997- November 1998).

International Pre-Dissertation Fellow, Institute of Social, Statistical and Economic Research, Legon, Ghana. Conducted research on smallholder agriculture and soil conservation jointly with Chris Udry of Northwestern University. Worked with Dr. Ernest Aryeetey on papers on social policy in Ghana. (July 1996 – December 1996).

Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Assisted Professor Ethan Ligon in work on modeling altruism, consumption smoothing in developing countries and other research. Assisted in the teaching of an upper level development economics class. (August 1994 - June 1996).

Consultant, The World Bank. Authored a study reviewing Bank lending in support of poverty alleviation to 16 countries for the Education and Social Policy Department. Contributed to work on the theory of targeted poverty alleviation programs, evaluation of poverty programs, and designed a study on the design of social safety nets in post-war economies. (February 1994 to August 1994).

Research Assistant, Harvard Institute for International Development. Assisted Institute Fellow Michael Roemer in work on a comparison between Asia 1965 and Africa today; served as a rapporteur for a conference on this book; also worked on estimating export supply elasticities in response to a devaluation for Institute Associate Jeffery Lewis. (October 1992 to January 1994).

Teaching Assistant, Kennedy School of Government. Assisted in instruction and grading for an intermediate course in microeconomic theory. (September 1993 to January 1994).

Projects Assistant, The World Bank. Wrote a number of papers for the West African Human Resources Division including a review of Nigerian poverty, an overview of Nigerian labor markets and modelling the demand for social services in Ghana. (June-September 1993)

Consultant, Department of Economics, Swarthmore College. Co-authored a paper with Professor Robinson Hollister on Near East Labor Markets under contract for USAID. (June-September 1992)

Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Swarthmore College. Held tutoring sessions and graded homework for a basic statistics course. (January-May 1992)

Rapporteur, Pew Charitable Trusts, Conference on Migration and Security. Wrote conference summary paper. (January 1992)

Member of AIDS Project Design Team, United States Agency for International Development, Accra. Wrote the sociological component of a multiyear assistance program to the Government of Ghana, also assisted Health Officer in presentation preparations. (March-May 1991)

Assistant to the Executive Vice-President, Overseas Development Council. Wrote background papers for Dr. Feinberg in preparation for his writing, also assisted in the editing of a volume on Soviet and United States policy towards the Third World. (June-August 1990)

Assistant to the Ambassador and Research Associate, Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations. Performed background research for Ambassador on a variety of topics including environmental issues, the UN and health, and other issues; wrote an extensive background brief for the economic section of the Mission on Latin American Debt, wrote reports for other officers on African and Latin American structural adjustment, capital flight and Namibia, drafted answers to correspondence of Ambassador and other officers, and tracked voting patterns for the Security Council elections. (June 1987-Sept. 1988, May-August 1989)

OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Co-organizer, Conference on Imperfect Information and Fieldwork in Development Economics, Yale University, April 1998. Referee for American Economic Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Oxford Economic Papers.

PUBLICATIONS “The Evolution of Social Policy” with Ernest Aryeetey, in Economic Reform in Ghana, Aryeetey, et. al. editors. Oxford: James Currey Press, 2000.

“Ghana: Social Policy Reform in Africa” with Ernest Aryeetey, in Reforming Social Policy Changing Perspectives on Sustainable Human Development, Morales-Gomez, et. al. editors. Ottowa: International Development Research Centre, 1999.

2 Reforming Labor Markets in the Near East, with Robinson Hollister. San Francisco: ICS Press, 1994.

AWARDS Rocca Scholar (1998-2000), Fulbright Scholar (1997-1998), Institute of Industrial Relations Fellowship (1997-1998), Institute for the Study of World Politics Fellowship (1997-1998), International Predissertation Fellow (1996-1997); Lippincott Fellow (1992); Flack Achievement Award (1991- 1992).