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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 works in the fields of development economics and health economics. Kremer received his education at Harvard University, where his doctoral advisors were Robert Barro and Eric Maskin. He has been employed by Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago.
Kremer is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Econometric Society. He has received the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His doctoral student includes Emily Oster.
His published works include "Wage inequality and segregation by skill," "Schools, teachers, and education outcomes in developing countries," and "Why is there no AIDS vaccine?" Kremer speaks English and identifies with Judaism.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 34
Top works
- Margaret Macdonald and Analytic Philosophy in The 1930s
- Wage inequality and segregation by skill
- Schools, teachers, and education outcomes in developing countries
- Incentives to learn
- Why is there no AIDS vaccine?
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Latvia
- Active from
- 1947-02-27
Discography
- Chamber Music
- Le Quattro Stagioni = Die Vier Jahreszeiten = The Four Seasons
- Le quattro stagioni1981
- Violin Concerto1982
- Violinkonzert / Sérénade mélancolique1982
- Double Concerto / Academic Festival Overture1983
- Violin Concerto1983
- Violin Concertos1983
- Bach: Concerto in C minor, BWV 1060 / Vivaldi: Concerti RV 576 & 5821984
- Tabula Rasa1984
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 88,512x
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,837x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,827x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,551x
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
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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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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