Elizabeth Brainerd

Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 1996
Professor, Brandeis University
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
ebrainer@brandeis.edu
781.736.4816
http://people.brandeis.edu/~ebrainer/

Research Interests
Labor economics, health economics, economic demography

Current Projects
"Missing Women in the Former Soviet Union? Son Preference and Children’s Health During Transition"; "Life and Death in Russia's Great War and Revolution."

Selected Publications
“Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data,” forthcoming, The Journal of Economic History, March 2010.

“Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union,” (with David M. Cutler, Harvard University), The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 2005), 107 - 130.

“Five Years After: The Impact of Mass Privatization on Wages in Russia, 1993 - 1998,” Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 30, no. 1 (March 2002), 160 - 190.

“Women in Transition: Changes in Gender Wage Differentials in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 54 no. 1 (October 2000), 138 - 162.

“Winners and Losers in Russia’s Economic Transition,” American Economic Review, Vol. 88 no. 5 (December 1998), 1094 - 1116.