Michael Kremer

Non-Resident Fellow
mkremer@fas.harvard.edu

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Background

Michael Kremer is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Kremer received the Macarthur Fellowship in 1997, serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Development Economics and the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and has been published in the Financial Times. He is an expert on AIDS and infectious diseases in developing countries, economics of developing countries, education and development, and mechanisms for encouraging research and development. His noted research on development includes: a study of a 1992-97 program through which the government of Colombia provided school vouchers to 100,000 students; preventing/eliminating debt accumulation by dictators in developing countries; ways of encouraging private research and development in tropical agriculture; and ways of encouraging research and development on AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria vaccines. Kremer will work with CGD Research Associate David Roodman to write a volume on incentives for the research and development of vaccines to prevent tropical diseases.

 To learn more about Michael Kremer visit his web site.