Michael Kremer
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Michael Robert Kremer is a development economist and is currently the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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.
He has also proposed one of the most convincing explanations for the phenomenon of the World System population hyperbolic growth observed prior to the early 1970s, as well as the economic mechanisms of the demographic transition.
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- 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)
- "Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990," The Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (1993): 681-716.
