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Jere Behrman is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. He serves on the NIH/NICHD National Advisory Council as an Economics/Social Science representative and is a leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics, focusing on developing economies.
Research interests include empirical microeconomics, labor economics, human resources (early childhood development, education, health, nutrition), project evaluation, economic demography, incentive systems, and household behaviors. His work emphasizes understanding determinants and impacts of human resources amid unobserved factors and institutional constraints.
Honors and awards:
- Fulbright 40th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow
- Econometric Society Fellow
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
- Ford Foundation Fellow
- Carlos Diaz-Alejandro Prize (2008)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Chile (2011)
Behrman has held a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and worked on over 70 NIH/NSF-funded projects, with research spanning 40+ countries. He is affiliated with the Early Childhood Interventions (ECI) and Health Inequality (HI) networks.
