Movatterモバイル変換

• Program evaluation
  • Occupational and classroom training
  • Wage subsidies and in-work benefits
  • Counseling, sanctioning, and monitoring
  • Micro-credits and start-up subsidies
  • Child-care support, early childhood education, and schooling
• Behavioral and personnel economics
  • Pay and incentives
  • Organization and hierarchies
  • Human resource management practices
• Migration and ethnicity
  • Labor mobility
  • Performance of migrants
  • Implications of migration
  • Migration policy
• Labor markets and institutions
  • Wage setting
  • Insurance policies
  • Redistribution policies
  • Labor market regulation
  • Entrepreneurship
• Transition and emerging economies
  • Labor supply and demand
  • Gender issues
  • Demographic change and migration
  • Institutions, policies, and labor market outcomes
• Development
  • Active labor market programs
  • Microfinance and financial regulations
  • Technological change
  • Social insurance
  • Skills and training programs
• Environment
• Education and human capital
  • Economic returns to education
  • Social returns to education
  • Schooling and higher education
  • Vocational education, training skills, and lifelong learning
• Demography, family, and gender
  • Demography
  • Family
  • Gender
  • Health
• Data and methods
  • Data
  • Methods
• Country labor markets

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Professor of Economics, Emerita, Vanderbilt University, USA

Research interest

Applied labor economics, health, education, economic development

Website

http://bit.ly/Anderson_Vanderbilt

Past positions

Professor of Economics, and Director, Graduate Program in Economic Development, Vanderbilt University, USA; Visiting Scholar, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden, August–September 2014; Visiting Scholar, University of Central Asia, Kyrgyz Republic, 2009; Visiting Professor, University of Adelaide, Australia, 1999

Qualifications

PhD Economics, North Carolina State University, 1978

Selected publications

• “Remittances and the human capital of children: New evidence from Kyrgyzstan during revolution and financial crisis.” Journal of Comparative Economics 42:3 (2014): 770–785 (with A. Kroeger).

• “Investing in health: The long-term impact of head start on smoking.” Economic Inquiry 48:3 (2010): 587–602 (with J. E. Foster and D. Fisvold).

• “Labor migration, household resource allocation, the environment, and climate change: Theory and evidence from Central Asia.” Mountain Research and Development (2009) (with A. Qiyobekov).

• “The cost of corruption in higher education.” Comparative Education Review 52:1 (2008): 1–25 (with S. P. Heyneman).

• Consequences of Creating a Market Economy: Evidence from Household Surveys in Central Asia. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press, 2003 (with R. Pomfret).