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.