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Steven Neil Durlauf
Born
(1958-08-12) August 12, 1958 (age 65)
Encino, California
Alma mater
Harvard University (BA) Yale University (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields
Economics, Public Policy
Institutions
University of Chicago
Thesis
(1986)
Doctoral advisor
Peter C. B. Phillips
Steven N. Durlauf, Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, and Steans Professor of Educational Policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
Steven Neil Durlauf (born August 12, 1958) is an American social scientist and economist. He is currently Steans Professor in Educational Policy and the inaugural Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.[1][2] Durlauf was previously the William F. Vilas Research Professor and Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As of 2021, is also a Part Time Professor at the New Economic School.
Durlauf's research spans many topics in microeconomics and macroeconomics. His most important substantive contributions involve the areas of poverty, inequality and economic growth. Much of his research has attempted to integrate sociological ideas into economic analysis. His major methodological contributions include both economic theory and econometrics. He helped pioneer the application of statistical mechanics techniques to the modelling of socioeconomic behavior and has also developed identification analyses for the empirical analogs of these models. Other research has focused on the development of techniques for policy evaluation and the construction of an econometrics of cross country income differences. Durlauf is also known as a critic of the use of the concept of social capital by social scientists and has also challenged the ways that agent-based modelling and complexity theory have been employed by social and natural scientists to study socioeconomic phenomena. Finally, Durlauf has written on issues of fairness and justice, developing normative justifications for "associational redistribution" which refers to the idea that policies such as affirmative action should be understood as redistributing various social and economic ties.
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Steven Neil Durlauf (born August 12, 1958) is an American social scientist and economist. He is currently Steans Professor in Educational Policy and the...
theories (as opposed to the latest research). The editor-in-chief is StevenDurlauf. In January 2022, the AEA announced that David Romer would become the...
the peer reviewed Journal of Political Economy, a comment on it by StevenDurlauf and Nobel Prize in Economics recipient James Heckman of the Harris School...
blacks in Fryer's data are not similar. Nobel-laureate James Heckman and StevenDurlauf, both University of Chicago economists, published a response to the...
February 2011 Haliassos, Michael. Household Portfolios. Second Edition Ed. StevenDurlauf and Lawrence Blume. Palgrave Macmillan,2008 The New Palgrave Dictionary...
Education Konstantin Sonin – John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor StevenDurlauf – Economist and Professor of Public Policy and Education Susan Mayer...
and Co. p. XIV. Backhouse, Roger E.; Medema, Steven (2008). "Economics, definition of". In Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E. (eds.). The New Palgrave...
the peer-reviewed Journal of Political Economy, a comment on it by StevenDurlauf and (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics recipient) James Heckman of the...
her doctoral thesis was supervised by Robert Hall, John Taylor and StevenDurlauf. She was a research assistant and doctoral student at Stanford from...
in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, edited by StevenDurlauf and Larry Blume (Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008). "Does Inequality...
• Steven N. Durlauf and H. Peyton Young 2001. "The New Social Economics" in Social Dynamics, ch. 1, pp. 1-14. Preview. MIT Press. • Steven N. Durlauf...
Dimand, Robert W. (2008). "Macroeconomics, origins and history of". In Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E. (eds.). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics...
641–649. doi:10.2307/1238882. JSTOR 1238882. Retrieved 29 March 2024. Durlauf, Steven N., and Lawrence Blume, eds. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics...
Philippe; Durlauf, Steven N. (2005). Handbook of economic growth. 1A. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-444-52041-8. Aghion, Philippe; Durlauf, Steven N. (2005)...
Underdetermination Dufour, Jean-Marie; Hsiao, Cheng (2008). "Identification". In Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E. (eds.). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics...
N. (2008). "Monetary Transmission Mechanism". In Blume, Lawrence; Durlauf, Steven (eds.). The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. London: Palgrave...
Fiat Money?". Investopedia. Retrieved 2021-11-30. (Blume, Lawrence; Steven N. Durlauf, eds. (2008). The new Palgrave dictionary of economics (2nd ed.)....
(1957). Games and Decisions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0486659437. Durlauf, Steven; Young, Peyton (2001). Social Dynamics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-04186-3...
four volumes, while the second edition was under the direction of Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume and was published in eight volumes. Both are...
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