People
Faculty:
Trevon D. Logan is an assistant professor of economics at The Ohio State University. He received his B.S. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A. degrees in economics and demography, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California , Berkeley . He is an economist who specializes in economic history, economic demography, and biodemography. His research agenda lies at the intersection of health economics, economic history, applied econometrics, applied microeconomics and development economics. His work has appeared in The Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and Historical Methods.
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Stacy Sneeringer is
an Assistant Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. She received her BA with University Honors from Wesleyan University in 1997. She completed her graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, where she received an MA in Demography, an MA in Economics, and a PhD in Economics.
She has been a member of the Wellesley faculty since 2005. Her research mostly focuses on health and environment, and the intersection of these. Selected topics include (1) the effect of pollution on infant health in the U.S., (2) health effects of hospital access, (3) effects of environmental legislation on firm size.
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Grad Students:
Michael Sinkey is an economics graduate student at The Ohio State University. He started working on the HIV/AIDS project in September 2007. His main roles involved overseeing several undergraduate researchers and data programming for the empirical portion of the project. His main research interests are micro and macro theory. Michael worked on compiling the DHS data.
Deepankar Basu completed his Ph.D. in Economics from the Ohio State University in 2008 and is currently teaching at Colorado State University. His research interests are applied econometrics, applied demography and growth & economic development. He has been working on the AIDS project since Summer 2008. Deepankar worked on methods to estimate HIV rates from existing sources.
Undergraduate Researchers:
Lois Stern is an economics major at The Ohio State University. She has been working on the HIV/Fertility project since March 2008. She received a research on research grant through the Digital Union for the summer of 2008. With this grant and the resources that it provided she was able to create the website for this project. She worked with Michael Sinkey in compiling data and working with hazard rate software from UNAIDS.
Jalpa Patel is an economics and biochemistry major at The Ohio State University, and started working on the project in Fall 2007.
Nathan Fritz-Joseph is an economics major at The Ohio State University, started working on the project in June of 2007. Nathan worked primarily on compiling the existing literature on HIV/AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa. Nathan is also a bibliophile and writer whose influences range from Kafka and Voltaire to Milton Friedman and F.A. von Hayek.
Adam Pruss is an economics major at the University of Vermont and started working on this project in June 2008. He worked closely with Deepankar Basu on estimating HIV rates from various sources.
Justin Sawyer is an actuarial science and economics major who began working on the project in the summer of 2008. Justin worked on compiling a database of the existing literature on HIV/AIDS and fertility in Sub Saharan Africa.