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Michael Kremer
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American development economist
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Michael Kremer is an American economist and university teacher born in New York City in 1964. He holds citizenship in the United States and speaks English. His professional interests include economics, with specific work in development economics and health economics. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Econometric Society.
Kremer has been employed by Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. He received his education at Harvard University, where his doctoral advisors were Robert Barro and Eric Maskin. Among his doctoral students is Emily Oster. He is recognized in the Nobel Economics collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, and the Macarthur Fellows collection.
His awards include the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received one Nobel Prize. Kremer is Jewish and has an Erdős number of 4.
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Key facts
- Born
- Michael Robert Kremer , ( 1964-11-12 ) November 12, 1964 (age 61) , New York City, U.S.
- Spouse
- Rachel Glennerster
- Alma mater
- Harvard University , (AB, PhD)
- Thesis
- Two Essays on Economic Growth (1992)
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert Barro • Eric Maskin • Greg Mankiw
- Discipline
- Development economics , Health economics
- Institutions
- UChicago (2020–present) NBER (1993–present) Harvard (1999–2020) MIT (1992–1999)
- Doctoral students
- Edward Miguel • Seema Jayachandran • Karthik Muralidharan • Nava Ashraf • Benjamin Olken • Dina Pomeranz • Emily Oster • Asim Ijaz Khwaja
- Notable ideas
- O-ring theory of economic development • Randomized controlled trials
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Economics (2019), MacArthur Fellowship (1997)
- Website
- Information at IDEAS / RePEc
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel2019
“for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Family name
- Kremer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Employer
- University of Chicago
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Judaism
- Doctoral advisor
- Eric Maskin
- Doctoral student
- Emily Oster
- Field of work
- health economics
- Official website
- scholar.harvard.edu/kremer
- Image
- Kremer bio.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1964-11-12
- member of
- Econometric Society
- Erdős number
- 4
- Commons category
- Michael Kremer
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael Robert Kremer (born November 12, 1964) is an American development economist currently serving as university professor in economics at the University of Chicago and director of the Development Innovation Lab at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics. Kremer formerly served as the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University, a role he held from 2003 to 2020. In 2019, Kremer was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."
In addition to his academic appointments, Kremer is the co-founder of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Kremer is also the Scientific Director of Development Innovation Ventures, a program of the United States Agency for International Development aimed at maximizing the impact of development spending through rigorous impact evaluation.
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