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Professor Ehrlich
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 M.A. in Economics and Advanced Certificate in Applied Economics
Ph.D. Program in Economics
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Education
Ph.D. (with Distinction), Columbia University , 1970
B.A. (Cum Laude), Hebrew University of Jerusalem , 1964
Honorary Doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa), University of Orleans, France, 2002
Current Academic Positions
SUNY and UB Distinguished Professor, 2006 - Present
Chair of the Economics Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, 2000 - Present
Director of the UB Signature Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development ("Center for Human Capital")
Melvin H. Baker Professor of American Enterprise , and Member of the FAME Department, in the Management School at SUNY Buffalo (UB)
Director of the Signature Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development (UB)
Editor in Chief of the Journal of Human Capita, the University of Chicago Press, 2006 - Present
Research Associate (senior title), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), 2004 - Present
Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Analysis at the University of Toronto .
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2011- present
Previous Academic Positions
Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago,1969-1978
Senior Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1969-1977
Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University, 1971-72
Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Economics, University of Virginia,1973
Visiting Professor of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1992-1993.
Academic and Professional Honors
Appointed member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to New York State Governor, David A. Patterson, July 2008-2010.
Invited to deliver the Provost Lecture at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on the topic “Why the US became the Economic Superpower of the 20th Century, a Human Capital Approach”, April 2007.
Named Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Capital, published by the University of Chicago Press , by the Board of University of Chicago Publications, December 2006.
Named SUNY Distinguished professor by the SUNY Board of trustees March, 2006.
Named NYSTAR Distinguished Professor of 2005, by the New York Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research.
Appointed Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research - Health Economics Program.
Named UB Distinguished Professor by UB President and Provost, 2002.
Awarded Honorary Doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) from the University of Orleans, France in a ceremony held in Fall October 2002 in Orleans.
Ranked # 61 in terms of total citations, and # 37 in terms of total citations per number of years following the Ph.D. degree, in Medoff's The Ranking of Economists, J. of Econ. Education, Fall 1989.
Also ranked among the 100 most cited economists in Marshall H. Medoff “A Citation-Based Analysis of Economists and Economic Programs”The American Economist vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring 1996).
Selected to appear in Who is Who in Economics: A Bibliographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1700-1980, Mark Blaug and Paul Sturges, eds., Cambridge : The MIT Press, first edition, 1983.
Also selected to appear in all subsequent (2nd to 4th editions) of this collection, the latest in 2003.
Admitted as Member of the prestigious Mont Pellerin Society, Fall 1998.
Appointed Honorary Professor of the City University of Hong Kong, 1999.
Selected to contribute entries in the following authoritative encyclopedic collections:
"Economics of Crime" in 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook, Forthcoming in Sage Publications, Rhonda C. Free ed., Sage Publications, 2010.
Economics of Deterrence – Theory” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke and New York ), 2008.
“Economics of Crime in The Encyclopedia of Law and Society, edited by David S. Clark, Sage Publications, CA: Thousands Oaks, 2006.
“Criminal Justice” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Peter Newman, Editor, Macmillan Press, 1998.
“Crime and Punishment” in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics. John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, eds., London : Macmillan Press, 1987.
Member of the US Presidential Health Policy Advisory Group and the Transition Team for Health Policy(1980-1981).
Grants, Awards, and Major Contracts
Contract awarded by the New York State Comptroller to provide an assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on the New York State Economy, March 2009.
Contract awarded by the New York State Comptroller, Mr. Thomas DiNapoli to develop an independent forecasting model for tax revenue collections in New York State, and provide annul forecasts based on this model. December 2007, $520,000 for 3 years (renewable).
NYSTAR faculty development grant, $750,000 for 3 years, supplemented by matching funds from the University at Buffalo, SUNY to establish a center of excellence on the role of human capital and technology transfer in economic growth and development, February 2006.
NSF Grant for "The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality" A multi-disciplinary workshop in economic development (joint with B. Smith and D. Mark), 2002.
Research Award, Chair in Health Economics, Institut D'Etudes Economie Politiques, Paris, France, 1997-98.
"Life Protection and the Value of Life Saving," Chaire D'Economie et de Gestion de la Sante, Institut D'Etudes Politiques De Paris (1996-97).
"Income Growth and Income Equality, an International Comparison," Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Taiwan (1994-1995).
"Economics of transition," HKUST (1992-1993).
Five-year grant from the US Agency of International Development (USAID) for studies in economic growth and development (1987-1992).
Roe fellowship to attend the Mont-Pelerin-Society Meeting in Munich, September, 1990.
Multiple Grants in Law and Economics from the National Science Foundation through NBER (1970-78) and from the US Department of Justice (1979-1987).
Significant Public Service
• Member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to New York State Governor David Patterson, August 18, 2008-2010.
• Consultant, Office of the New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli 2008, providing forecasts of State tax revenue since 2008 (renewable)
• Member of the Hong Kong Government's Health Services Committee, and of the Expert Subcommittee on Grant Applications and Awards, 1993-94.
• Member of the U.S. Presidential Health Policy Advisory Group and the President's Transition Team on Health Policy, 1980-1981.
Professional Activities
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Human Capital, 2007 – present.
• Director – Center of Excellence on Human capital, Technology transfer, and Economic Growth and Development (HEAD), SUNY at Buffalo , March 2006 – present.
• Research Associate in the Health Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and participant in NBER’s Working groups on Social Security and National Security.
• Editorial Board of the SUNY Press, 2004 – 2010.
• Member of the Mont Pellerin Society
• Director, Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise Systems, State University of New York at Buffalo , 1987-1992
• The American Economic Association
• The Western and Atlantic Economic Association
• The American Law and Economics Association
• Chair of numerous sessions in past AEA meetings
• Referee for all major journals.
International Activities
Serving as Research Fellow at IZA - the Instiute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany
Serving as Founding member of the scientific advisory board of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna, Austria, 2011
Serving as Honorary Professor, City University of Hong Kong
• Named Affiliate Professor to the University of Haifa, Israel, by the President and Provost of that university, June 2005.
• Member of the Board of International Advisors, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 2005 – present.
• Member of the Hong Kong Government's Health Services Committee, and of the Expert Subcommittee on Government Grants and Awards by appointment from Secretary Elizabeth Wong in Governor Christopher Patton’s Administration, 1993-1994.
• Visiting Professor, Coordinator of the Department of Economics, Chair of the Personnel Committee in the School of Business and Management, and founder of the Economic development Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1992-1994.
• Associate Member of the Institute of Policy Analysis of the University of Toronto 1992-.
• Frequent Visiting Professor at Universite D’Orleans, Institut D'Etudes des Sciences Politiques, Paris, and Universite Pantheon-Assa (Paris II), France.
• Board of Academic Advisors, Hong Kong Center of Economic Research, Hong Kong University 1992-.
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