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Julie Anderson Schaffner

Visiting Associate Professor of International Economics

Education

AB, University of Michigan
PhD in Economics, Yale University

Professional Activities

Consultant to the World Bank and UNESCO; Advisor, Council on Faith and International Affairs; Senior Research Scholar and Deputy Director, Stanford University Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform (1997-98); Assistant Professor and Lecturer, Stanford University, Department of Economics (1986-99); Lecturer, Boston University, Department of Economics (1989-92).

Awards

2008 James L. Paddock Teaching Award

Programs & Centers

• Institute for Human Security

Courses

Fall 2009

• EIB E241 - Micro Development Economics: Poverty Reduction Policy Analysis for Developing Countries
  EIB E241 Syllabus

Research Interests

My current top research priority is the completion of a textbook entitled Economic Development: Theory, Empirical Research and Policy Analysis, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell. This text offers a coherent analytical framework within which to define development objectives, understand the development process, identify potential barriers to development, design development interventions, and analyze the multidimensional impact of policies and programs. In collaboration with several colleagues from World Relief and the Association of Christian Economists, I am also designing impact evaluation tools for use with World Relief-sponsored microfinance programs. My academic research involves econometric analysis of household survey data aimed at answering such questions as “What forces play important roles in preventing families in poor countries form sending their children to primary school?” and “Why are long-lasting jobs so much less prevalent in developing countries than in developed countries, and what are the implications of this for labor market policy formulation?”

Selected Publications

Papers and Chapters

• “Global Poverty: Academics and Practitioners Respond”, The Review of Faith and International Affairs 4(1), p.13-20 (with J. M. Dean and S. L.S. Smith), 2006.
• “Subjective and Objective Literacy Measures: Implications for Current Results-Oriented Development Initiatives”, International Journal of Educational Development 25(6), p.652-657, 2006.
• “Christian Collaboration in the Attack on Poverty”, Chapter 1 of J. Dean, J. Schaffner and S. Smith (eds.), Attacking Poverty in the Developing World, World Vision and Authentic Media (with Judith M. Dean and Stephen L.S. Smith), 2005.
• “Impact Assessment for Christian Development Organizations”, Chapter 14 in J. Dean, J. Schaffner and S. Smith (eds.), Poverty Reduction in the Developing World, World Vision and Authentic Media, 2005.
• “The Determinants of Schooling Investments Among Primary School Aged Children in Ethiopia,” Africa Region Human Development Working Paper No. 85, World Bank, 2004.
• “Heteroskedastic Sample Selection and Developing Country Wage Equations,” Review of Economics and Statistics 84(2), pp.269-80, 2002.
• “Job Stability in Developing and Developed Countries: Evidence from Colombia and the United States,” Economic Development and Cultural Change 49(3), pp.511-536, 2001.
• ”The Employment Module and Labor Market Analysis,” in Margaret Grosh and Paul Glewwe (eds.), Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries: Lessons from Ten Years of LSMS Experience, World Bank, 2000.
• “Premiums to Employment in Larger Establishments: Evidence from Peru,” Journal of Development Economics 55, pp.81-113,1998.
• “Generating Conditional Expectations from Models with Selectivity Bias: Comment,” Economics Letters 58, pp.255-261, 1998.
• “Attached Farm Labor, Limited Horizons, and Servility,” Journal of Development Economics 47, pp.241-270, 1995.
• “Rising Incomes and the Shift from Self-Employment to Firm-Based Production,” Economics Letters 41, pp.435-440, 1993.
• “Rural Labor Legislation and Permanent Agricultural Employment in Northeastern Brazil,” World Development 21(5), pp.705-719, 1993.
• “Rural Credit and the Mix Between Permanent and Temporary Wage Labor Contracts in Pernambuco, Brazil,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72(5), pp.1139-1145, 1990.
• “Does Regulation Improve Small Farmers’ Access to Brazilian Subsidized Rural Credit?” Journal of Development Economics 33, pp.67-87, 1989.

Edited Volumes

• Attacking Poverty in the Developing World: Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration, World Vision and Authentic Media (co-edited with Judith M. Dean and Stephen L.S. Smith), 2005.

Book Reviews

• On Ann Harrison (ed.), Globalization and Poverty, for Economic Development and Cultural Change (forthcoming 2010)
• On James Heckman and Carmen Pages’ (eds)., Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, for Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2006.
• On Osvaldo Sunkel’s (ed.), Development from Within: Toward a Neostructuralist Approach for Latin America, for the Journal of Economic Literature, pp.54-55, 1994.
• On Ajit K. Dasgupta’s Growth, Development and Welfare, for the Journal of Economic History, pp.515-517, 1990.

Working Papers and Reports

• “Job Training and Cross-Country Productivity Differences: New Hypotheses with Evidence from Colombia and the United States," 2006.
• “Measuring Literacy in Developing Country Household Surveys: Issues and Evidence”, background paper for the Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2006