Curriculum Vitae

 

Publications:

           

“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.

Link:  http://www.idealibrary.com/links/doi/10.1006/jcec.2001.1758/pdf

                       

“Inequality and Mortality During Russia’s Economic Transition,” in Richard B. Freeman, editor, Inequality Around the World (London:  Palgrave, in association with the International Economic Association, 2002), 162 - 187. [link to file]

 

“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.   

Link:  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V64-430XMS9-17-1S&_cdi=5804&_orig=browse&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2001&_sk=999549995&wchp=dGLbVzz-lSzBV&_acct=C000051908&_version=1&_userid=1196095&md5=46b689d3863344007ae9bbd395acfdf0&ie=f.pdf

 

“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.  [link to file]

 

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

Link:  http://www.jstor.org/view/00028282/ap000005/00a00040/0?currentResult=00028282%2bap000005%2b00a00040%2b0%2c01%2b19981200%2b9995%2b80018799&searchID=cc99333c.10378375820&frame=noframe&sortOrder=SCORE&userID=89a55b34@williams.edu/01cc99333c0050a45f9c&dpi=3&viewContent=Article&config=jstor

 

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

Link:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VC6-3VT9VBY-7-1&_cdi=5946&_orig=browse&_coverDate=11%2F30%2F1998&_sk=999739988&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSzBS&_acct=C000051908&_version=1&_userid=1196095&md5=a101bbcad83257298c6bc0d81b67253a&ie=f.pdf

 

“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.

Link:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VC6-3VT9VBY-8-1&_cdi=5946&_orig=browse&_coverDate=11%2F30%2F1998&_sk=999739988&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSzBS&_acct=C000051908&_version=1&_userid=1196095&md5=ef66a030050f4f28b6017e3913000d77&ie=f.pdf

 

The Labor Market and Policy Reform in Ukraine:  An Overview, Centre for Cooperation with the Economies in Transition, OECD, Paris, 1995.

 

 

Unpublished Papers and Work in Progress:

           

“Death and the Market,” (with Elena Varavikova, Russian Ministry of Health), March 2002.  Presented at the Dartmouth Micro Seminar, November 2001, the Rutgers Econometrics and Empirical Microeconomics Workshop, November 2001, the Harvard Labor Seminar, December 2001, and the Berkeley Transition Economics Seminar, March 2002.

[link to file]

 

“Economic Effects of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic,” (with Mark Siegler, California State University, Sacramento), June 2002.  Presented at the NBER Summer Institute, July 2002.

[link to file]      

 

“Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union:  An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data,” June 2002.  Presented at the CEPR/WDI Annual International Conference on Transition Economics, Riga, Latvia, June 2002.         

[link to file]

                                   

“Importing Equality?  The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination,” (with Sandra E. Black, UCLA), NBER Working Paper 9110, August 2002.  Revise and resubmit, Industrial and Labor Relations Review.

Link:

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w9110

           

“Autopsy on an Empire:  Understanding Mortality in the Former Soviet Union,” (with David Cutler, Harvard University), work in progress.         

[link to file]