Michael Kremer
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."
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| Born | Michael Robert Kremer November 12, 1964 New York City, U.S. |
| Spouse | Rachel Glennerster |
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| Field | Development economics Health economics |
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| Doctoral advisor | Robert Barro • Eric Maskin • Greg Mankiw |
| Doctoral students | Edward Miguel • Seema Jayachandran • Karthik Muralidharan • Nava Ashraf • Benjamin Olken • Dina Pomeranz • Emily Oster • Asim Ijaz Khwaja |
| Contributions | O-ring theory of economic development • Randomized controlled trials |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Economics (2019) MacArthur Fellowship (1997) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
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.