Steven Neil Durlauf was born on August 12,1958 and is an American social scientist and economist.
11 Facts About Steven Durlauf
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Steven Durlauf is currently Frank P Hixon Distinguished Service Professor and the inaugural Director of the Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago.
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Steven Durlauf helped pioneer the application of statistical mechanics techniques to the modelling of socioeconomic behavior and has developed identification analyses for the empirical analogs of these models.
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Finally, Steven Durlauf has written on issues of fairness and justice, developing normative justifications for "associational redistribution" which refers to the idea that policies such as affirmative action should be understood as redistributing various social and economic ties.
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Steven Durlauf is married to Olga Nikolayevna Steven Durlauf, a cardiologist and medical school professor.
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Steven Durlauf was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.
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Steven Durlauf is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society for Economic Measurement, the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory and the International Association for Applied Econometrics.
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Steven Durlauf is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
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From 2010 to 2022, Steven Durlauf was a co-director of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working group.
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Steven Durlauf was Editor of the Journal of Economic Literature from 2013 to 2022.
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Steven Durlauf previously served as General Editor of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.