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Marcus Alexander

 

Marcus Alexander

PhD candidate, concentration advisor, Lowell House tutor
[ Curriculum Vitae ]
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 malexand at fas.harvard.edu
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 politicsandhealth.blogspot.com
Website: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~malexand
Thesis Title: The Politics of Risk and Social Welfare in Imperfect Markets for Health Care
Major Field: American politics; minor fields: political economy, methodology, health politics
Advisors: Gary King (Gov and IQ), Nicholas Christakis (HMS and Soc), Jennifer Hochschild (Gov and AfAm), Torben Iversen (Gov). Also receives valuable guidence from Robert H. Bates (Gov), Jorge I. Dominguez (Gov).

Biographical Note:

Marc Alexander (BA Yale, MPhil Oxon) is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University and a resident tutor in Lowell House. He is also a doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and a graduate student associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is a member of Nicholas Christakis's research group at the Harvard Medical School and Charles S. Day's group at the Beth Israel Medical Center. In 2006-07 he will be a fellow of the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality. His dissertation is on the political economy of health, and his current research includes statistical modeling, behavioral economics, and the politics of cooperation and conflict. His research has been published, or is forthcoming, in the British Journal of Political Science, Eastern European Politics and Society, the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Current Medical Research and Opinion, and Neuroreport. Peer-reviewed presentations include: APSA (2003, '04, '05, '06), MPSA (2005, '05, '06, '07), IPSA (2004), ISA (2006), SGIM (2006), NKF (2007), LiCEP (2006). Research collaborators include: Matthew C. Harding (www.stanford.edu/~mch), Nicholas Christakis (www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/christakis), Fotini Christia (www.wcfia.harvard.edu). He has served as a TF for the Government Sophomore Tutorial (Gov 97a: Constitutional Democracy in America; and Gov 97b: Comparative Politics and International Relations) and has designed and taught a new Junior Tutorial (Gov 98r: Contemporary Politics of the Middle East) with Fotini Christia. In 2006-07 he will serve as a Government Concentration Advisor.

Papers:

Determinants of Social Capital: New Evidence on Religion, Diversity and Structural Change British Journal of Political Science 37 (2007), 368–377
Beliefs over the Unknown: Understanding the Threat of Terrorism Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 20-23, 2006. (with Matthew C. Harding)
Rethinking Justice from a Behavioral Political Economy Perspective Paper presented at the conference ``Inequality and American Democracy: Building on the APSA Task Force," University of Minnesota, April 7-8, 2006.
Validation of a Commonplace Modern Activity Hand Survey The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 75th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 5-9, 2008.
Growing Old in a New America: Latino Immigration and Health Inequalities Conference ``Embracing Diversity: Latino Immigration and the Transformation of American Society," Harvard University, Oct. 13-14, 2006.
Association of anemia correction with health-related quality of life in patients not on dialysis Current Medical Research and Opinion 23 :12 (2007): 2997-3008
Validation of a Commonplace Modern Activity Hand Survey American Society for Surgery of the Hand, 62th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Sept. 2007
Democratization and Hybrid Regimes: Comparative Evidence from Southeast Europe Eastern European Politics & Societies, forthcoming.
The Internet and Democratization: The Development of Russian Internet Policy Demokratizatsiya, 12:4 (2004), 607-627
Is poverty to blame for civil war? New evidence from nonlinear fixed effects estimation Econometric Society World Congress, 2005
Bias and Asymmetric Loss in Survival Forecasts Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming.
Validation of an Objective Device for Assessing Circumductive Wrist Motion The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons 75th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 5-9, 2008.