Steven N. Durlauf

University of Wisconsin
Kenneth J. Arrow Professor Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, former Director of the Economics Program of the Sante Fe Institute

Steven N. Durlauf is Kenneth J. Arrow and Laurits R, Christensen Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Research Asscoiate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. For two years, he served as Progam Director for the Economics Program of the Santa Fe Institute. Durlauf has worked extensively on theoretical and econometric issues involving the analysis of inequality, social determinants of behavior, economic growth and policy evaluation. He was general editor of the most recent edition of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and coedited the Handbook of Economic Growth. He received his BA in Economics from Harvard and his PhD in Economics from Yale.

Working Group

Health Inequality (HI)
Identity and Personality (IP)
Measuring and Interpreting Inequality (MIE)

Additional Information

Email: sdurlauf@ssc.wisc.edu
Homepage: http://www.econ.wisc.edu/Durlauf/

Research Interests:

Social interactions, inequality

Related Papers:

L. Blume, W. Brock, S. Durlauf, and Y. Ioannides 2011
Identification of Social Interactions
In Handbook of Social Economics, J. Benhabib, A. Bisin, and M. Jackson, eds., Amsterdam: North Holland. pp. 853-964