Steven Durlauf

University of Wisconsin
Vilas Research Professor and Kenneth J. Arrow and Laurits R. Christensen Professor of Economics

Steven N. Durlauf is Vilas Research Professor and 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, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. For two years, he served as Program 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

Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)
Family Inequality (FI)
Health Inequality (HI)
Identity and Personality (IP)
Markets (M)
Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy (MIP)

Additional Information

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