Elizabeth Brainerd
Assistant Professor of Economics
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996
M.I.A., Columbia University, 1991
B.A., Bowdoin College, 1985
Fields
Labor Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Reform in Formerly Socialist
Countries
Selected Work Experience
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Economic Adviser to the Russian Government
1992 - 1993
Publications and Working Papers
Elizabeth Brainerd, "Winners and Losers in Russia’s Economic Transition,"
forthcoming, American Economic Review.
__________, "Market Reform and Mortality in Transition Economies,"
forthcoming, World Development.
__________, (with Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce Kennedy), "The Role of Social
Capital in the Russian Mortality Crisis," forthcoming, World Development.
__________, "Women in Transition: Changes in Gender Wage Differentials
in Eastern Europe and the
Former Soviet Union," Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No.
171, December 1997.
__________, "Death and the Market," unpublished manuscript, Williams
College, December 1997.
Williams 
Economics