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...native laborers, actually do them a favor by increasing wages and reducing inequalities in pay, a recent Kennedy School of Government study found. The working paper, entitled “The Globalization of Household Production,” was co-authored by Gates Professor of Developing Societies Michael R. Kremer and Stanley Watt, who recently received his PhD in economics at Harvard. Employment of certain types of immigrants—namely, women who serve as household laborers—can free up native skilled workers to contribute positively in the economy as part of the workforce, the researchers found. According...
...Hebrew, “chai” means life, and for the Harvard Business School classmates and professors of Avichai “Avi” Kremer, it is no coincidence that he has been a symbol of life since he was diagnosed last fall with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).Since Kremer was first diagnosed, this second-year Business School student has raised over two million dollars, facilitated discussions between competing pharmaceutical companies, and founded two companies dedicated to discovering a treatment for ALS—commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Kremer will graduate this week...
After lunch with professors and vague talk about collaborations down the road, Bono and his team head off to M.I.T. to meet with the Poverty Action Lab, a new group that specializes in objective modeling, one of Bono's turn-ons. Michael Kremer, a Gates (as in Bill and Melinda) Professor of Developing Sciences, opens with an example of the kinds of problems the lab examines: Why don't poor children go to school? Health, it turns out, is a major factor. One quarter of the world's children have worms. Treating them costs only $3.50 a student...
...Kremer also said that there is also a long-term goal behind the fund-raising efforts...
...talking about people who are going to be future leaders in the business world, and they have these notions in the back of their minds,” Kremer said, “it will be much more beneficial for the research than the money we are raising this year...