Michael Kremer
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Michael Kremer is a development economist and is currently the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University.
His work focuses on the use of incentives, particularly the design of incentive mechanisms to encourage the development of vaccines for use in developing countries, and the use of randomized trials to evaluate interventions in the social sciences. He created the well known economic theory regarding skill complementarities, Kremer's O-Ring Theory of Economic Development.
[edit] Bibliography
- Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases, Princeton University Press (September 7, 2004)
- Making Markets for Vaccines: Ideas to Action, Center for Global Development (May 2005)
[edit] External links
- Home page
- Review of Strong Medicine by Rehka Nath (Carnegie Council)
