Elizabeth Brainerd

Professor of Economics

On leave 2009 - 2010 academic year
Webpage: http://www.williams.edu/Economics/faculty/brainerd.htm
E-mail: Elizabeth.Brainerd@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-2408
Fax: (413)-597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
South Academic Building
Williamstown, MA 01267

Education

Harvard University, Ph.D, 1996
Columbia University, M.A., 1991
Bowdoin College, B.A., 1985
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Fields of Specialization

Labor Economics
Population Health and economic demography
Comparative and transition economics

Course Syllabi

Econ 110 Introduction to Microeconomics
Econ 205 Public Economics
Econ 209 Labor Economics
Econ 251 Price and Allocation Theory
Econ 469 Economics of Global Health and Population

Published Papers

"Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union,” (with David M. Cutler, Harvard University), The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 2005), 107 - 130.

“Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination,” (with Sandra E. Black, UCLA), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 57, no. 4 (July 2004), 540 - 559.

"Five Years After: The Impact of Mass Privatization on Wages in Russia, 1993 - 1998," Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 30, no. 1 (March 2002), 160 - 190.

“Economic Reform and Mortality in the Former Soviet Union: A Study of the Suicide Epidemic in the 1990s,” European Economic Review, Vol. 45 no. 4-6 (May 2001), 995-1006.

"Women in Transition: Changes in Gender Wage Differentials in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 54 no. 1 (October 2000), 138 - 162.

“Winners and Losers in Russia’s Economic Transition,” American Economic Review, Vol. 88 no. 5 (December 1998), 1094 - 1116.

“Market Reform and Mortality in Transition Economies,” World Development, Vol. 26 no. 11 (November 1998), 2013 - 2027.

“The Role of Social Capital in the Russian Mortality Crisis,” (with Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy, Harvard School of Public Health), World Development, Vol. 26 no. 11 (November 1998), 2029 - 2043.

Unpublished Papers and Works in Progress

"Uncounted Costs of World War II: The Effect of Changing Sex Ratios on Marriage and Fertility of Russian Women," March 2008

“Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data,” July 2008.

"Fertility in Transition: Understanding Fertility Decline in Russia in the 1990s."

"Death and the Market" (with Elena Varavikova)

“The Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” (with Mark Siegler, California State University, Sacramento), CEPR Discussion Paper 3791, November 2003.

 

Other

Selected Work Experience

Economic Adviser to the Russian Government, 1992 - 1993