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Michael Haines
Banfi Vintners Professor of Economics
I am currently Banfi Vintners Distinguished Professor of Economics at Colgate (since 1990), and also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.) with the Development of the American Economy Program.
I have served on the Council of the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. The author of three books, I also have written dozens of articles and chapters in books and professional journals. I have served on the boards of editors of the Journal of Economic History and Explorations in Economic History, held several grants from the National Institutes of Health, had subcontracts from NSF, and served as a consultant to NIH and the World Bank.
Currently, I am a subcontractor on the NSF grant “The Dramatic Rise in Agricultural Productivity in the U.S. from 1910 to 1950: Disentangling the Roles of Technological Change, Government Policy, and Climate" awarded to Price Fishback, Department of Economics, University of Arizona. We are now entering county-level data from the censuses of agriculture for the period 1925-1950. I am also a subcontractor on an NIH grant awarded to Steven Ruggles of the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota called “Integrated Spatio-Temporal Aggregate Data Series.”
I created the ICPSR Study Number 2896 “Historical Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000" (with ICSPR). This has county-level population, agricultural, and other statistics from 1790 to 2002. We now have online the complete published censuses of agriculture from 1840-1920 and from 1969-2002.
From 1997 to 1999, I served as vice president and president of the Social Science History Association and as treasurer of that organization from 1985 to 1996 and from 2005 to 2010. I am one of the editors-in-chief of the Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition. I have also been vice president and chair of the program committee of the Economic History Association.
I earned my MA in economic history in 1968 and a PhD in economic history in 1971 from the University of Pennsylvania, where I was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellow. During 1971-72, I studied at the Institut fuer Weltwirtschaft in Kiel, Germany, on a Foreign Area Fellowship.
I have taught economics, American and European economic history, economic demography, history of economic thought, and economic development at Colgate, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, Wayne State University, and St. Joseph’s College.