Mark Rosenzweig

Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics. Mark R. Rosenzweig is a leading development economist who pioneered the use of microeconometric methods for studying the causes and consequences of economic development. Among the topics he has studies using a variety of data sets are: the educational implications of the green revolution, the relationship between family size and human capital investments, the effects of agricultural technical change on forests and water resources, savings behavior and investments in farm assets, marriage and migration, household division, risk and agricultural investments, the determinants of fertility decline, the consequences of burning biomass in the home for health, the role of traditional institutions in economic development, and risk-sharing and mobility. A particularly interesting aspect of his work on India is that it exploits a long panel data set, which enables the study of economic growth and development over the long run with the benefits on microeconomic data and modeling. Rosenzweig is one of the principal investigators of the New Immigrant Survey, the first national longitudinal survey of immigrants in the United States, and was Director of research for the U.S. Select Commission on Refugee and Immigration Policy. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists.