David Weil Title: Professor of Economics
Departmental affiliation(s): Economics
Background info:
David Weil, Professor of Economics, is an alumnus of Brown (A.B., History, 1982). He returned to Brown as an Assistant Professor in 1990, after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1997.His current research projects examine the role of health in explaining differences between countries in the level of income per capita and the macroeconomic effects of demographic change.
Research interests:
Demographic issues such as health, population aging, and fertility transitions, as well as conventional economic subjects including growth.Selected publications:
2005 Economic Growth ( Boston: Addison Wesley), 2005
2003 “How Much of Cross-Country Income Variation is Explained by Health” Journal of the European Economic Association, 1:2-3, April-May, 2003 (with Gauri Kartini Shastry)
2000 “Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and Beyond,” with O. Galor. American Economic Review 90: 806-828.
2000 “Mortality Decline, Human Capital Investment, and Economic Growth,” with S. Kalemli-Ozcan and H. Ryder. Journal of Development Economics 62:1, pp. 1-23.
