Elizabeth Brainerd

Associate Professor of Economics

Office: Fernald
Webpage: http://www.williams.edu/Economics/FACULTY/brainerdpersonal.htm
E-mail: Elizabeth.Brainerd@williams.edu
Tel: (413) 597-4375
Fax: (413)-597-4045
Department of Economics
Williams College
Fernald House
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
Public Economics
Economics of Reform in Formerly Socialist Countries

Research

"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.

"Inequality and Mortality During RussiaÕs Economic Transition," in Richard B. Freeman, editor, Inequality Around the World (London: Palgrave, in association with the International Economic Association, 2002), 162 - 187.

"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 RussiaÕs 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.

"Death and the Market," (with Elena Varavikova, Russian Ministry of Health), March 2002.

"Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic," (with Mark Siegler, California State University, Sacramento), June 2002.

"Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination," (with Sandra E. Black, UCLA), NBER Working Paper 9110, August 2002.

Other

Selected Work Experience

Economic Adviser to the Russian Government, 1992 - 1993