Susan and Barton Winokur Professor of Economics and Women's and Gender Studies

Research interests: labor economics, health economics, economic demography, health and fertility in post-socialist countries

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Published papers

"Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data,” The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 70, no. 1 (March 2010), 83 - 117.

“Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union,” (with David M. Cutler, Harvard University), The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 2005), 107 - 130.

“Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination,” (with Sandra E. Black, UCLA), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 57, no. 4 (July 2004), 540 - 559.

“Five Years After: The Impact of Mass Privatization on Wages in Russia, 1993 - 1998,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 30, no. 1 (March 2002), 160 - 190.

“Economic Reform and Mortality in the Former Soviet Union: A Study of the Suicide Epidemic in the 1990s,” European Economic Review, Vol. 45 no. 4-6 (May 2001), 995-1006.

“Women in Transition: Changes in Gender Wage Differentials in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 54 no. 1 (October 2000), 138 - 162.

“Winners and Losers in Russia’s Economic Transition,” American Economic Review, Vol. 88 no. 5 (December 1998), 1094 - 1116.

“Market Reform and Mortality in Transition Economies,” World Development, Vol. 26 no. 11 (November 1998), 2013 - 2027.

“The Role of Social Capital in the Russian Mortality Crisis,” (with Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy, Harvard School of Public Health), World Development, Vol. 26 no. 11 (November 1998), 2029 - 2043.

 

Working papers

“The Demographic Transformation of Post-Socialist Countries: Causes, Consequences, and Questions,” invited paper, United Nations University-WIDER Conference, Helsinki: Reflections on Transition: Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, September 2009.

“Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data,” working paper version, January 2009.

 

Data

Soviet Union height data for the 1930s

Brandeis University

Econ 69a Economics of Race and Gender
Econ 76b  Labor Economics
Econ 184b Econometrics

 

Williams College

Econ 110 Introduction to Microeconomics
Econ 205 Public Economics
Econ 209 Labor Economics
Econ 251 Price and Allocation Theory
Econ 469 Economics of Global Health and Population