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Jon Denton-Schneider studies economic development, health economics, and economic history. His reasearch has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and focuses on 2 main questions:<\/p>\n

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  2. What are the historical and cultural factors that created such disparities in the first place?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Jon collects novel historical and geographical data to use for causal identification in large administrative datasets to test hypotheses generated by economic theory as well as anthropologists, historians, public health scholars, and sociologists.<\/span><\/p>\n

    He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan, where he was a predoctoral trainee in economic demography in the Population Studies Center and a Weiser Emerging Democracies Fellow. He holds an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona and received a Fulbright grant to study the post-NAFTA business environment in Mexico. Jon also earned his BS in Business Economics and Entrepreneurship and BA in Spanish from Arizona, and he competed for the top-ranked men’s swimming team.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38414,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"cu_faculty_f180_userid":"C70298966","cu_faculty_first_name":"Jon","cu_faculty_last_name":"Denton-Schneider","cu_faculty_employment_status":"Full Time","cu_faculty_rank":"Assistant Professor","cu_faculty_position":"Assistant Professor","cu_faculty_phone":"","cu_faculty_email":"JDentonSchneider@clarku.edu","cu_faculty_location":"","cu_faculty_about":"

    Jon Denton-Schneider studies economic development, health economics, and economic history. His reasearch has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and focuses on 2 main questions:<\/p>\n

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    1. What policies have successfully broken intergenerational cycles of poverty and poor health in developing countries, both past and present?<\/li>\n
    2. What are the historical and cultural factors that created such disparities in the first place?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Jon collects novel historical and geographical data to use for causal identification in large administrative datasets to test hypotheses generated by economic theory as well as anthropologists, historians, public health scholars, and sociologists.<\/span><\/p>\n

      He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan, where he was a predoctoral trainee in economic demography in the Population Studies Center and a Weiser Emerging Democracies Fellow. He holds an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona and received a Fulbright grant to study the post-NAFTA business environment in Mexico. 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