Allen C Kelley, James B Duke Professor

Allen C. Kelley is a James B. Duke Professor within the Department of Economics at Duke University. He earned this title in 1982, and first joined the economics faculty in 1972. Prior to obtaining a position at Duke, he had been a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an acting assistant professor at Stanford University, and had held numerous visiting positions, including the Richard Ivan Downing Fellow of Economics at Melbourne University, research scholar for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, consultant for the RAND Corporation, and visiting professor at Yale University, Harvard University, and Monash University. Professor Kelley earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1964, and his A.B. in 1963.

Professor Kelley specializes in the fields of economic demography, economic development, and economic history. To fund his research, he has earned a number of grants including those awarded by the Carnegie Foundation, the Exxon Education Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Institute of Education, the National Science Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development. Some of his projects have focused specifically on “demographic change in the Third World,” including the impacts of urbanization and rapid population growth on the nation’s structure and economy.

Professor Kelley has written extensively on his research and ideas. He has published several books, including Population Does Matter: Demography, Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World, completed in collaboration with Nancy Birdsall, Population, Food, and Rural Development with D.A. Ahlburg and K. Oppenheim Mason, various guides and manuals discussing “TIPS”, and others. He has also published articles in various leading academic journals, including the Journal of Population Economics, Demography, the American Economic Review, the Population and Development Review, and others. He has also contributed chapters to a number of books and written several book reviews.

Along with publishing his work, Professor Kelley has presented his research and ideas at conferences around the world. He spoke at the COE/JEPA joint conference on globalization in Kobe, Japan, and at the Institute of Economics Academica Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

Along with his duties as a teacher and researcher, Professor Kelley has held various other professional positions throughout his career. He served as chairman for the President’s Advisory Committee on Resources from 1992-93, was department chair from 1973-80, and has been member and associate director for various committees within his university, including the Center for Demographic Studies.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	213 Social Sciences
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 1825
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Web Page:	http://www.econ.duke.edu/Econ/Faculty/Users/akelley.html

Education:

PhD	Stanford University	1964
A.B.	Stanford University	1963
Two Year Study	Linfield College	1957

Specialties:

Development Economics

Research Interests: Economic Demography and Economic Development

Professor Kelley specializes in the study of economic demography, history, and development. He is most interested in research involving demographic change in the Third World and the consequences of such shifts. He has specifically explored the “impacts of rapid population growth on economic growth, structural change, and urbanization.” These studies resulted in his publication of several books, some utilizing computable general research models to analyze his observations; the project also led to the holding of case studies of Japan and Egypt. Other recent writings of Professor Kelley’s include the titles, “Demography,” “Evolution of Recent Economic-Demographic Modeling: A Synthesis,” and “Population Does Matter: Demography, Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World,” along with over four generations worth of earlier publications that have appeared in books and leading academic journals. Professor Kelley has focused his recent studies on the investigation of nations within Africa, including Kenya, to study fertility, urbanization, and the “evolution of population ideas.”

Keywords:

Economic Demography • Economic History • Economic Development

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. A.C. Kelley, Demography, in The New Pelgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008)
2. A.C. Kelley with Robert M. Schmidt, A Century of Demographic Change and Economics Growth: The Asian Experience, in Population Change, Labor Markets and Sustainable Growth: Towards a New Economic Paradigm, edited by Andrew Mason and Mitoshi Yamaguchi (2007), Elsevier Science
3. A.C. Kelley with Robert M. Schmidt, Evolution of Recent Economic-Demographic Modeling: A Synthesis, in Population Change, Labor Markets and Sustainable Growth: Towards a New Economic Paradigm, edited by Andrew Mason and Mitoshi Yamaguchi (2007)
4. A.C. Kelley, American Economic Review, Jounral of Economic History, Economic Record, Economic Journal, Economic History Review, International Economic Review (recent)
5. Population Does Matter: Demography, Growth, and Poverty in the Developing World, edited by Nancy Birdsall, Allen C. Kelley and Sinding (2001), New York: Oxford University Press