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Research Professor; Department of Economics, Duke University

Charles Becker (BA, Grinnell; PhD Princeton) joined the Duke faculty in 2003, where he directed the American Economic Association's Summer Program and Minority Scholarship Program (2003-2007). He currently directs the MS program in Economics and Computation run jointly by the Departments of Computer Science and Economics. Becker previously taught at CU-Denver, Vanderbilt, and CU-Boulder. In 2007, he was recognized as a lifetime member of the American Economic Association (AEA) for service to the profession; in 2019 he received the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession’s mentorship award. He received Duke’s equity, inclusion and diversity award in 2008 and graduate faculty mentoring award in 2014.  

Fields of Interest:

Economic Demography, Transition Economies, Urban and Regional Economics, Health Economics

 

Recognitions:

American Economic Association, awarded lifetime membership for service to the profession, January 2008

Duke University, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award, Spring 2008

Duke University, 2008 Diversity Award, November 2008

Duke University, Graduate School, Faculty Mentoring Award, April 2014

American Economic Association, Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession, lifetime

mentoring award, 2019

 

Current and recent teaching: Econ 345/554 Urban & Real Estate Economics; Econ 490/690 Economic History of the Rise, Fall, and Aftermath of the USSR; Econ 605 MA Microeconomic Theory II; Econ 756-757 Graduate Health Economics sequence

Ongoing research projects involving real estate and spatial data analysis (with links to selected papers), and especially trailer parks, include:

•          Little trailer park on the prairie: Site rents in manufactured housing parks across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3472094
•          Manufactured housing park valuation (Colliers dataset) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2681222
•          Zoning and manufactured housing park lot rents and unit resale values in North Carolina https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3164564(Journal of Housing Economics, 2019)
•          Topography and residential patterns in American cities https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2791710 (Regional Science & Urban Economics, 2018);
•          Geography, topography, neighborhood sorting, and residential income segregation https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3472094
•          Hilliness and willingness to pay for housing in Hong Kong (Journal of Economic Geography, 2017) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2706709 
•          Housing bubbles in Kazakhstan’s real estate market (includingBubbling Away: Forecasting Real Estate Prices, Rents, and Bubbles in a Transition Economy, Comparative Economic Studies, 2021, and Housing Price Appreciation and Economic Integration in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Kazakhstan, J. Housing Economics, 2021 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=3141406)
•          Estimating the long-run consequences of different types and duration of warfare, focusing on Bosnia https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3160015
•          Access to health care and breast cancer mortality in Kentucky

Transition economies:

•          Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2730727 (Demography 2017)
•          Social hierarchies and domestic violence in Central Asia https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2862096 (Demographic Research, 2019)
•          "The Social Position of Daughters-in-Law and Domestic Violence: Patrilocal Marriage in Tajikistan." ERID working paper 232 Feminist Economics (2022).
•          Migration, health outcomes, and demographic change in the former USSR; (lots of papers: most recent is an analysis of Russia’s neonatal intensive care unit program in Economics of Transition 2016 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2695141 and living standards uncertainty and inter-regional migration in Kazakhstan in Journal of Development Studies 2016 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00220388.2016.1257118)
•          Urbanization in Russia, 1897 – present http://pubs.iied.org/10613IIED.htm
•          Long run effects of collectivization in Kazakhstan on later generation anthropometrics
•          Long-run health consequences of radiation releases in the Semipalatinsk nuclear polygon
•          Letting data give voice to the victims: tracing Stalin’s great purge in Moscow, 1937-39

Other:

•          Progression to and performance in Economics doctoral programs by US minority students. (Economics of Education Review 2016) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2486397
•          The effectiveness of foreign aid http://aiddata.org/aiddata-working-paper-series
•          Infant mortality underreporting in middle income and developing countries (World Development, 2010)

Overseas teaching, research, and consulting: China, Gambia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Yugoslavia, Zambia