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UB Economists Provide Revenue Forecasts to State Comptroller
Tax revenue forecasts by University at Buffalo economist Isaac Ehrlich, Ph.D., and researchers in UB's Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development may play a major role in future budget negotiations in determining how much the state has to spend. Please see this webpage for entire article: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9317
Mystery of Human Capital
Dr. Ehrlich's new paper looks at why the US overtook the UK and other European countries in the 20th century in both aggregate and per-capita GDP, as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth where human capital is the "engine of growth". Please see this webpage for more details.
Dr. Ehrlich quoted in the New York Times
A column in The New York Times by David Brooks on the need for Republicans to find a presidential candidate who can transcend current political categories and lay out a human-capital agenda cites research conducted by Isaac Ehrlich, SUNY and UB Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Economics, who showed that the United States became the richest country because in the 19th and 20th centuries it had the most schooling and the best circumstances to help people develop their own capacities. The article may be read online at http://www.buffalo.edu/news/pdf/May07/NYTimesEhrlichOpEd.pdf.
Dr. Ehrlich's mention in the NY Times is based on his recent NBER paper: Isaac Ehrlich, 2007. "The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the US Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century," NBER Working Papers 12868, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Downloadable from: http://ideas.repec.org/e/peh1.html, or http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12868.pdf
Journal of Human Capital Approved
The Journal of Human Capital is dedicated to human capital and its expanding economic and social role especially in today’s emerging “knowledge economy.” Developed in response to the growing recognition of the central role human capital plays in determining allocation, distribution, and long-term growth of economic resources, JHC is a forum for theoretical and empirical work in human capital and related public policy analysis.
JHC is distinguished from other economics journals by bringing together many conventional areas of economic inquiry and offering a common platform for discussion in areas ranging from labor, health, and family economics to income and wealth distributions, social mobility, institutions and politics, crime and corruption, technological innovation and transfer, productivity and structural change, and economic growth and development.
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Kim wins Journal of Population Econ Kuznets Prize for Best Paper 04-06
Jinyoung Kim won the Kuznets Prize for Best Paper 2004-2006 from the Journal of Population Economics for his paper "Sex selection and fertility in a dynamic model of conception and abortion", (2005) 18: 041-067. He received it in a ceremony held in June 2007.