Charles I. Jones
Curriculum Vita, February 2017
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
655 Knight Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5015
E-mail: chad.jones@stanford.edu
Web: http://www.stanford.edu/~chadj, Google
Scholar
Work: (650) 725-9265
Positions Held
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STANCO 25 Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, April
2009 - present
- Professor of Economics, January 2009 - March 2009
- Visiting Professor of Economics, January 2008 - December 2008
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Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2002 -
Present
- Faculty Research Fellow, 1997 - 2002
- Professor, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, July 2004 -
2009
- Associate Professor (tenured), July 2001 - June 2004
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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University, July
1993 - June 2001
Education
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Ph.D., Economics, M.I.T. 1993
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Advisers: Olivier Blanchard and Stanley Fischer
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National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1989-92
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A.B. Summa cum laude, Economics, Harvard University, 1989
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Williams Prize for best academic record in department
Outside Grants and Honors
Plenary
Talk at the Society for Economic Dynamics meeting in Warsaw, June 2015.
Maddison
Lecture at Groningen, September 2014
BP Faculty Fellow in Global Management, 2013 - 2014
John Osterweis and Barbara Ravizzi Faculty Fellow, 2010 - 2011
John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, 2000 - 2001
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, 1999 - 2001
National Fellow, Hoover Institution, 1996 - 1997
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National Science Foundation Grants
- SES-0720994: "Why are Some Countries Richer than Others?
Intermediate Goods and Weak Links in the Theory of Economic
Development," 2007-2009
- SES-0242000: "Growth, Capital Shares, and a New Production Function," 2003 - 2007
- SBR-9818911: "Population, Ideas, and Economic Growth," 1999 - 2002
- SBR-9510916: "R&D-Based Models of Semi-Endogenous Growth," 1995 - 1998
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Papers and Publications -- By Topic
Why do economies grow in the
long run?
"Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?"
(with Nick Bloom, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb),
January 2017, Version 0.6.
"The Facts of Economic
Growth" Handbook of Macroeconomics, 2016, Vol. 2A, pp. 3-69.
"The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic
Growth" (with Chang Hsieh, Erik Hurst, and Pete Klenow),
August 2016, Version 4.0. Revise and resubmit at Econometrica.
"Life and Growth" Journal of Political
Economy, April 2016, Vol. 124 (2), pp. 539-578.
"The Future of U.S. Economic Growth"
(with John Fernald), American Economic Review Papers and
Proceedings, May 2014, Vol. 104 (5), pp. 44-49.
"The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and
Human Capital" (with Paul Romer) American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics, January 2010, Vol. 2 (1), pp. 224-245.
"A New Proof of Uzawa's Steady-State Growth
Theorem" (with Dean Scrimgeour), Review of Economics
and Statistics, February 2008, Vol. 90 (1), pp. 180-182.
"The Shape of Production Functions and the
Direction of Technical Change" Quarterly Journal of
Economics, May 2005, Vol. 120 (2), pp. 517-549.
"Growth and Ideas" in P. Aghion and S. Durlauf (eds.) Handbook of
Economic Growth (Elsevier, 2005) Volume 1B, pp. 1063-1111.
"Population and Ideas: A Theory of Endogenous Growth"
in Aghion, Frydman, Stiglitz, and Woodford (eds.) Knowledge,
Information, and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics:
In Honor of Edmund S. Phelps (Princeton University Press) 2003.
"Sources of U.S. Economic Growth in a World of Ideas"
American Economic Review, March 2002, Vol. 92 (1), pp. 220-239.
"Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth
Over the Very Long Run" Advances in Macroeconomics, August 2001,
Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 1.
"Growth: With or Without Scale Effects?" American
Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 1999, Vol. 89, pp. 139-144.
"R&D-Based Models of Economic Growth" Journal
of Political Economy, August 1995, Vol. 103, pp. 759-784.
"Time Series Tests of Endogenous Growth Models"
Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1995, Vol. 110, pp. 495-525.
Why are some countries so much
richer than others?
"Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and
Time" (with Pete Klenow),
American Economic Review, September 2016, Vol. 106 (9),
pp. 2426-2457.
"Misallocation, Input-Output Economics, and
Economic Growth" in D. Acemoglu, M. Arellano, and E.
Dekel, Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Tenth World
Congress, Volume II, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
"Intermediate Goods and Weak Links in the Theory of Economic
Development" American Economic Journal:
Macroeconomics, April 2011, Vol. 3 (2), pp. 1-28.
"Why Do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output per
Worker than Others?" (with Robert E. Hall), Quarterly Journal of
Economics, February 1999, Vol. 114, pp. 83-116.
"On the Evolution of the World Income Distribution"
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1997, Vol. 11, pp. 19-36.
"Convergence Revisited" Journal of Economic
Growth, July 1997, Vol. 2, pp. 131-153.
"Levels of Economic Activity across Countries"
(with Robert E. Hall), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings,
May 1997, Vol. 87, pp.173-177.
"Economic Growth and the Relative Price of Capital"
Journal of Monetary Economics, December 1994, Vol. 34, pp. 359-382.
Top income inequality
"A Schumpeterian Model of Top Income
Inequality" (with Jihee Kim), February 2017,
Version 3.0. Forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy.
"Pareto and Piketty: The Macroeconomics of Top
Income and Wealth Inequality," Journal of Economic
Perspectives, Winter 2015, Volume 29 (1), pp. 29-46.
The macroeconomics of health spending
"The Value of Life and the Rise in Health
Spending" (with Robert E. Hall),
Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2007, Vol. 122 (1), pp. 39-72.
"Insurance and Incentives for Medical Innovation" (with Alan Garber and
Paul Romer), Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2006, Forum: Biomedical Research and the Economy: Article 4.
"Why Have Health Expenditures as a Share of GDP Risen So Much?"
U.C. Berkeley working paper, May 5, 2004. (A revision of NBER Working Paper 9325
from November 2002).
Is there too much or too little
R&D?
"Too Much of a Good Thing? The Economics of Investment
in R&D" (with John Williams), Journal of Economic Growth,
March 2000, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 65-85.
"Measuring the Social Return to R&D" (with
John Williams), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1998, Vol.
113, pp. 1119-1135.
Empirical work on sectoral convergence
"Comparing Apples to Oranges: Reply" (with
Andrew Bernard), American Economic Review. September 2001,
Vol. 91 (4),
pp. 1168-69.
"Comparing Apples to Oranges: Productivity Convergence
and Measurement Across Industries and Countries" (with Andrew Bernard),
American Economic Review, December 1996, Vol. 86, pp. 1216-1238.
"Technology and Convergence"(with Andrew Bernard),
Economic Journal, July 1996, Vol. 106, pp. 1037-1044.
"Productivity and Convergence Across U.S. States and Industries" (with
Andrew Bernard), Empirical Economics, March 1996, Vol. 21, pp. 113-135.
"Productivity Across Industries and Countries: Time Series Theory and Evidence"
(with Andrew Bernard), Review of Economics and Statistics, February
1996, Vol. 78 (1), pp. 135-146.
Comments, Notes, Etc.
"On the 25th Anniversary of
Romer (1990)" October 2015.
"Discussion of Angus Deaton
Presentation" at the Nobel Symposium on Growth and Development,
September 3 - 5, 2012.
"To Close the Gap," Book review of Michael
Spence, The Next Convergence. In Science, Vol. 334,
November 18, 2011, p. 906.
"Comment on La Porta and Shleifer `The Unofficial Economy and
Economic Development'" Brookings Papers on
Economic Activity, December 2008, pp. 353-359.
"A Simple Mincerian Approach to Endogenizing
Schooling" U.C. Berkeley working paper, April 2007.
"More Life vs. More Goods: Explaining Rising Health Expenditures"
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter 2005-10;
May 27, 2005.
"The Fiscal Problem of the 21st Century"
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter 2003-27; September 19, 2003.
"Human Capital, Ideas, and Economic
Growth" in Paganetto, L. and E.S. Phelps (ed.) Finance,
Research, Education, and Growth (New York: Palgrave) 2003.
"Comment on Dowrick-DeLong, `Globalisation
and Convergence'" in Bordo, M., Taylor, A. and J. Williamson (eds.)
Globalization in Historical Perspective (NBER, University of Chicago Press) 2003.
"Using Chain-Weighted NIPA Data" Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Economic Letter 2002-22, August 2, 2002.
"The Economic Return to Health Expenditures" Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Economic Letter 2001-36, December 14, 2001.
"The
Future of the New Economy" Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Economic Letter 2001-14, May 11, 2001.
"Comment on Nazrul Islam, `Different Approaches to International
Comparisons of Total Factor Productivity'" in C.R. Hulten, E.R. Dean,
and M.J. Harper (eds.) New Developments in
Productivity Analysis (NBER, University of Chicago Press) 2001.
"Comment on Rodriguez-Rodrik, `Trade Policy and Economic Growth: A
Skeptic's Guide to the Cross-National Evidence'". NBER
Macroeconomics Annual 2000 (MIT Press).
"A Note on the Closed-Form Solution of the Solow Model"
Stanford working paper, January 2000.
"Comment on Klenow-Rodriguez, `The Neoclassical Growth Revival: Has it
Gone too Far?'" NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1997 (MIT Press).
Books
Macroeconomics
(W.W. Norton). 2017 (4th edition), 2014 (3rd edition), 2011 (2nd edition), 2010 (economic crisis update), 2008
(first edition).
Introduction
to Economic Growth (W.W. Norton, 2013 Third Edition, with
Dietrich Vollrath). First Edition, 1998, available in
Chinese, English, French,
Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Professional Activities
Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999 - present.
Associate Editor, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2007
- present.
Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Growth, 1998 - present.
Co-editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009 - 2011.
Co-editor, The B.E. Journals in
Macroeconomics, 2000 - 2006.
Co-organizer of NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth
small group on economic growth.
- -- with Pete Klenow, 2000 - 2016.
-- with Alwyn Young, 1996 - 1999.
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute
for Economic Policy Research, April 2016 - present.
Member, Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers, April
2012 - March 2014.
Member, Toulouse Network for Information Technology, 2005 - 2008.
Research Fellow, Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research, Summer
2005, 2006.
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2000 -
present.
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