Peter Savelyev
Vanderbilt University
Assistant Professor
Peter Savelyev is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Vanderbilt University. His primary research interests are in the field of health economics and the emerging field of the economics of human development. His working paper, "Conscientiousness, Education, and Longevity of High-Ability Individuals," combines these two fields, bridging health economics and personality psychology in order to address one of the key questions in the health-as-human-capital literature: does education causally affect longevity. His secondary research interest lies in studying specific informal markets of transition economies that substantially affect the performance of their health care systems. In a paper in progress, he investigates the problem of widespread informal payments from patients to doctors, which are typical in public clinics of transition economies. Peter Savelyev has been working with James Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Seong Moon, and Adam Yavitz on a reanalysis of the Perry Preschool Project and has published papers in the Journal of Quantitative Economics and the Journal of Public Economics. Another paper on the Perry Preschool Project has "revise and resubmit" status with the American Economic Review. Apart from the largely completed Perry Preschool project, Peter is working on two other projects. A paper in progress co-authored with Miriam Gensowski and James Heckman estimates the internal rate of return to education for men and women of the Terman sample.
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Email: peter.savelyev@gmail.com
Homepage: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/petersavelyev/