Jere R. Behrman, W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center, has been awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Chile at a special ceremony at the University of Chile in Santiago, Chile.
At the ceremony he also gave an invited lecture on “From Macro Econometric Analysis to Early Childhood Development” pertaining to his four decades of research on the Chilean economy.
He has also been awarded a Bill and Linda Gates Foundation Grant for a two-year multi-country multi-institutional interdisciplinary study on “Early child growth and development in four countries: Young Lives.”
The study is investigating the determinants of and the impacts of child growth recovery and child growth faltering after one year of age on child schooling success and cognitive and non-cognitive skill attainment in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.
In addition, Professor Behrman has been appointed to the National Research Council (NRC) National Academies of Science (NAS) Committee on Population (CPOP) for three years.
CPOP conducts scientific assessments of major population-related issues and provides a forum for the discussion and analysis of important public policy issues related to population.
