Michele Tertilt
Assistant Professor
Contact Info:
[email protected]
http://www.stanford.edu/~tertilt/
Page in Stanford Directory
Phone: 650-724-4903
Office: Landau 332
Office hours: Thursday 1:00-3:00 pm
Interests
- Research:
Macroeconomics, family economics, growth and development, consumer credit
- Current Research:
Women’s rights; consumer bankruptcy; HIV and sexual behavior in Malawi
- Teaching:
Macroeconomics (Ph.D. level), intermediate macro, family economics, demography
- Professional Affiliations:
NBER, CEPR, SIEPR, BREAD
Recent Publications
(1) “Efficiency with Endogeneous Population Growth” (joint with Mikhail Golosov and Larry Jones), Econometrica, Vol.75, No.4, July 2007, pp.1039-1071
(2) “Consumer Bankruptcy – A Fresh Start” (joint with Igor Livshits and Jim MacGee), American Economics Review, Vol. 97 (1), pp.402-418, March 2007
(3) “Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings,” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 113 (6), pp. 1341-1371, December 2005
List of Stanford Working Papers
Current Courses
| Winter | ECON 211 Core Economics: Modules 11 and 12 |
| Spring | ECON 144 Family Economics ECON 216 Development Economics III |
Education
Ph.D., M.A., University of Minnesota; Diplom, Bielefeld University