 | John C. BrownProfessor of Economics |
Dr. Brown received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1978 and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He is a research economist with the Program in Cohort Studies of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also affiliated with the Clark program in Urban Development and Social Change. Current Research and TeachingDr. Brown is an economic historian with research interests in historical demography (fertility and mortality), the economic history of urbanization, international trade, and German industrialization (the history of the cotton textile industry and the labor force.) He teaches courses in the history of the world economy, the economics of the European Union, urban economics, principles, and statistics.
Selected Publications"Estimating the Comparative Advantage Gains from Trade: Evidence from Japan" (with Daniel Bernhofen), American Economic Review 95(1) (March, 2005), pp. 208-225.
"A Direct Test of the Theory of Comparative Advantage: The Case of Japan" (with Daniel Bernhofen), Journal of Political Economy 12(1) (February, 2004), pp. 48-67. "The History of the Modern Career: Introduction" (with David Mitch and Marco Van Leeuwen) in John C. Brown, David Mitch, and Marco Van Leeuwen, eds., Origins of the Modern Career: Career Paths and Job Stability in Europe and North America, 1850-1950, Ashgate Press, 2004. "Working Class Careers: On-the-Job Experience and Career Formation in Munich, 1895-1910" (with Gerhard Neumeier), in John C. Brown, David Mitch, and Marco Van Leeuwen, eds., Origins of the Modern Career: Career Paths and Job Stability in Europe and North America, 1850-1950, Ashgate Press, 2004). "Public Health," "Sanitation," and "Water Supply," Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History: Oxford University Press, 2003. "Fertility Transition in a Rural, Catholic Population: Bavaria, 1880-1910," (with Timothy Guinnane), Population Studies, March, 2002. "Job Tenure and Labor Market Dynamics during High Industrialization: The Case of Germany before World War I" (with Gerhard Neumeier). European Review of Economic History, 5(August, 2001), pp. 189-218. “Economics and Infant Mortality Decline in German Towns, 1891-1912” in Sally Sheard and Helen Powell, eds., The Body and the City, Liverpool Press, 2000. "Wer bezahlte die hygienische Stadt? Finanzielle Aspekte der sanitaren Reformen in England, USA, und Deutschland um 1910" {Who Paid for the Sanitary City? Issues and evidence Ca. 1910] in Jorg Vogele and Wolfgang Woelk, eds. Stadt, Krankheit, und Tod. Duncker and Humblot, 2000. “Public Health Reform and the Decline in Urban Mortality in Germany”. Improving the Public Health: Essays in Medical History, ed. G. Kerns, W. R. Lee, M.C. Nelson, and J. Roger, Liverpool University Press, forthcoming. “Die Volkswirtschaft der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika,” (with M. Klein), Springers Handbuch der Volkswirtschaftlehre, vol. 2, 1997, von Hagen, et. Al., eds., Berlin. “Comment: Science, Health and Household Technology: The Effect of the Pasteur Revolution”, The Economics of New Products, ed. R. Gordon and T. Bresnahan, U. of Chicago Press, 1996.
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