2009-10 Placement Candidate

Anna-Maria Aksan

516 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall	aaksan@uoregon.edu
541.346.4677	541.346.1243 (dept fax)

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Aksan received her B.A. in Quantitative Economics in 2004 from Tufts University and expects to receive her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2010. Prior to entering the Ph.D. program at UO, Aksan was employed as a research analyst at Medstat, a health care information company based in Boston, MA.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Aksan specializes in economic growth and development. Current research focuses on disease and development examining the role of intellectual property rights on disease burden and the roles of morbidity and mortality in economic development.

WORKS IN PROGRES

Job Market Paper - "Uncertain Child Survival and Fertility: The Effects of Child Morbidity and Mortality," Working Paper

"Appropriate Medical Inventions," Working Paper

"The Dynamics of Disease and Economic Development," Work in Progress.

"Fertility, Uncertain Survival and the AIDS Epidemic," Work in progress with Shankha Chakraborty.

"Precautionary Demand for Children under Uncertainty," Work in progress with Shankha Chakraborty.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Aksan is currently a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon and has independently taught Introduction to Econometrics (EC 421) and Principles of Macroeconomics (EC 202). She has also led discussion sections for Principles of Microeconomics and Principles of Macroeconomics, and she has conducted computer labs for the undergraduate econometrics sequence. Aksan looks forward to teaching Growth and Development at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Course Syllabi:

Introduction to Econometrics

Principles of Macroeconomics

FIELDS

Core and Field courses completed (Instructors):

Microeconomics (Ron Davies, Anne van den Nouweland, Van Kolpin )

Macroeconomics (Mark Thoma, Shankha Chakraborty, Nicolas Magud )

Quantitative Methods (Peter Lambert, Larry Singell, Trudy Cameron )

Labor Economics (Glen Waddell)

International Economics (Ron Davies, Bruce Blonigen)

Time Series (Jeremy Piger)

Panel Data (Trudy Cameron)