Economics- Financial and Market Analysis

• Professor Charles Becker’s Recent research:

 CITIES TRANSFORMED: THE DYNAMICS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. Panel on Urban Population Dynamics. Mark R. Montgomery and Richard Stren, eds. Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. 2003.

"Economic consequences of demographic change in the former USSR: social transfers in the Kyrgyz Republic," World Development 32(11), 2004, pp. 1849-1870. (with Sergey Paltsev)

 "Kazakhstan's pension system: pressures for change and dramatic reforms," Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics 45(2), December 2004, pp. 151-187. (with A.S. Seitenova)

"The migration response to economic shock: lessons from Kazakhstan." Journal of Comparative Economics 
33(1), March 2005, pp. 107-132. (with E.N. Musabek, A.S. Seitenova, and D.S. Urzhumova).

"Mortality recovery and stabilization in Kazakhstan," Economics and Human Biology, 3(1), March 2005, pp. 
97-122. (with D.S. Urzhumova)

"Disability transition risk: estimates from Russian longitudinal data with modifications for Kazakhstan." 
(with I. Merkuryeva)

Curriculum Vitae