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Jeffrey Stuart Hammer (born November 3, 1953) is a health and development economist. Hammer was the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Economic Development at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University.[1][2] His primary research focus is the economics of health policy and health service provision in poor countries.[3][4][5][6][7][8] He was on the core team of the 2004 World Development Report “Making Services Work for Poor People,” alongside Lant Pritchett, Shanta Devarajan, and other notable economists.[9] He is currently a senior non-resident scholar at the National Council of Applied Economic Research in Delhi, and Director of the One Hundred Homes project.[10][11]
Jeffrey Hammer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jeffrey Stuart Hammer November 3, 1953 |
| Academic career | |
| Field | Development economics Health economics |
| Institutions | Princeton University, The World Bank |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College (BA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Education and career
editHammer earned a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College and his PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.[10] Before Princeton he worked at The World Bank for 25 years, the last three years in the New Delhi office.[12]
References
edit- ^ Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey; Leonard, Kenneth (2008). "The Quality of Medical Advice in Low Income Countries". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 22 (2): 93–114. doi:10.1257/jep.22.2.93. hdl:10986/6393. PMID 19768841. S2CID 39190175.
- ^ "Jeffrey Hammer - IGC". International Growth Centre. 2013-06-01. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ Hammer, Jeffrey (2015-08-28). "Why advocating universal free primary health care is irresponsible at best". The Brookings Institution. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey (2007). "Money for nothing: The dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India" (PDF). Journal of Development Economics. 83 (1): 1–36. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.05.004. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ Chaudhury, Nazmul; Hammer, Jeffrey; Kremer, Michael; Muralidharan, Karthik (2006). "Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 20 (1): 91–116. doi:10.1257/089533006776526058. PMID 17162836.
- ^ Hammer, Jeffrey; Spears, Dean (2016). "Village sanitation and child health: Effects and external validity in a randomized field experiment in rural India". Journal of Health Economics. 48: 135–148. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2016.03.003. PMC 4920645. PMID 27179199.
- ^ Gersovitz, Mark; Hammer, Jeffrey (2004). "The Economical Control of Infectious Diseases". The Economic Journal. 114 (492): 13–133. doi:10.1046/j.0013-0133.2003.0174.x. S2CID 18095429.
- ^ Das, Jishnu; Hammer, Jeffrey (2005). "Which doctor? Combining vignettes and item response to measure clinical competence". Journal of Development Economics. 78 (2): 348–383. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.11.004.
- ^ World Bank (2003). World Development Report 2004. The World Bank. doi:10.1596/0-8213-5468-X. ISBN 978-0-8213-5468-1.
- ^ a b "Jeffrey S. Hammer". National Council of Applied Economic Research. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ "One Hundred Homes". One Hundred Homes. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ "Jeffrey Hammer". The World Bank. Retrieved 2020-04-22.