John Ham

John Ham is a Professor of Economics at New York University in Abu Dhabi and Global Professor of Economics at the Wagner School of Public Service at NYU New York. He received his BA from the University of Toronto and his PhD from Princeton University.

His research is in the general area of applied microeconomics, and specifically in development economics, health economics, labor economics, and experimental economics. While most of his work is on Western economies, he is currently working on school and labor market issues in Indonesia and in Bangladesh. He has also worked on theoretical econometrics problems.

He has received several grants from the SSHRC (Canada), NSF (US), NIH (US), and SSRC (Singapore). He served on the NSF (US) review panel for Economics. He has published in many good economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, The Journal of Political Economy and The Review of Economic Studies. He started his academic teaching career at the University of Toronto and has held tenured positions at the University of Pittsburgh, Ohio State University, the University of Southern California, the University of Maryland and the National University of Singapore.

Education:

BA from the University of Toronto; PhD Princeton University

Research Areas:

Applied microeconomics; Labor; Health; Experimental economics

Courses Taught

• ECON-GH 5220 Empirical Economics
• ECON-UH 3210 Quantitative Methods of Applied Economics
• SOCSC-UH 3220 Econometrics
• UNIST-GH 5220 Empirical Economics Evaluation

Employment:

• Global Network Professor ofEconomics, NYUWagner School ofPublic Service (October, 2017 – present).
• Professor of Economics, Division of Social Sciences, NYU Abu Dhabi (September 2017 – present).
• Deputy Director, Center for Population Research, National University of Singapore (January 2016 – August 2018).
• Professor of Economics and Provost's Chair, National University of Singapore (January 2015 – August 2018).
• Professor, Department ofEconomics, andResearchFaculty, PopulationCenter, University of Maryland (August 2008 – December 2015).
• Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore (August 2013 - August 2014).
• International Research Fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies(IFS), London UK. (September 2011 – August 2014).
• Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala University (May 2011 - present).
• Research Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin (March 2008 - present).
• Chair, Department ofEconomics, University of SouthernCalifornia (February 2006 - April 2008).
• Associate Director, Southern California Population Research Center (January 2007 – July 2009).
• Professor, Department of Economics, University of Southern California (July 2005 - July 2009).
• Nonresident Faculty Affiliate, California Center for Population Research-UCLA (July 2005 - present).
• Visiting Scholar, Applied Microeconomic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (June 2005 - June 2007).
• Visiting Scholar, Domestic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (October 2004 - June 2005).
• Research Associate, IZA (October 2003 - present).
• Professor, Department ofEconomics, School of Public Policy andManagement(courtesy),
• Ohio State University (January 2000 - September 2005).
• Faculty Associate, Center for Human Resource Research and Initiative in Population
• Research, Ohio State University (August 2000 - July 2005).
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania (September 1999 - February 2000).
• Research Fellow, William Davidson Institute, School of Business, University of Michigan (January 1999 - July 2004).
• Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh (September 1991 - December 1999).
• Affiliated Faculty, Heinz School of Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University (1996 - 1999).
• Visiting Professor of Economics, Northwestern University (September 1991 – August 1992).
• Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh (July 1989 - August 1991).
• Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Economics and VisitingResearch
• Associate Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University (1984 - 1986).
• Associate Professor (1985 - 1989), Assistant Professor (1980 - 1985), Lecturer (1979 - 1980), Department of Economics, University of Toronto.