Jere R. Behrman

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W.R. Kenan, Jr. Profesor of Economics; Director of Population Studies Center
Economics Ph.D. , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1966
Address: 
229 McNeil
Telephone: 
(215) 898-7704
Fax: 
(215) 573-2057

Selected Publications and Papers:

  • Behrman, Jere R. and Nancy Birdsall, 1983, "The Quality of Schooling: Quantity Alone is Misleading," American Economic Review 73 (December), 928-946.
  • Behrman, Jere R., Mark R. Rosenzweig and Paul Taubman, 1994, "Endowments and the Allocation of Schooling in the Family and in the Marriage Market: The Twins Experiment," Journal of Political Economy 102:6 (December), 1131-1174
  • Behrman, Jere R., Andrew Foster, Mark R. Rosenzweig and Prem Vashishtha, 1999, “Women’s Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth,” Journal of Political Economy 107:4 (August), 682-714
  • Behrman, Jere R. and Mark R. Rosenzweig, 2002, “Does Increasing Women’s Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation?” American Economic Review 92:1 (March), 323-334.
  • Behrman, Jere R., Piyali Sengupta and Petra E. Todd, 2005, “Progressing through PROGRESA: An Impact Assessment of Mexico’s School Subsidy Experiment,” Economic Development and Cultural Change 54:1 (October) 237-275

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