MICHELE TERTILT
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., M.A., University of Minnesota; Diplom, Bielefeld University
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Family Economics, Growth and Development.
Current Research: Women’s Suffrage, Consumer Bankruptcy, HIV and sexual behavior in Malawi.
Representative Recent Publications: (1) "Efficiency with Endogeneous Population Growth," joint with Mikhail Golosov and Larry E. Jones, Econometrica, Vol.75, No.4, July 2007, pp.1039-1071; (2) "Consumer Bankruptcy - A Fresh Start," joint with Igor Livshits and James MacGee, American Economics Review, Vol. 97 (1), pp.402-418, March 2007; (3) "Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 113 (6), pp. 1341-1371, December 2005.