Professional Activities and Awards

• Executive Committee, American Economic Association, 2000-2002.
  
  
• Council of the Econometric Society , 1999-2001.
  
  
• Co-Editor of Econometrica , 1996-2000.
  
  
• Nancy L. Schwartz Lecture, Northwestern University, "Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves: The Economics of Social Mobility," May 1996.
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• Vice President, American Economic Association, 1996-97.
  
  
• Council of the Econometric Society , 1996-98.
  
  
• Associate Editor of The Journal of Economic Growth, 1995-present.
  
  
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993.
  
  
• Associate Editor of Games and Economic Behavior, 1992-1996.
  
  
• Chairman, Committee of Visitors, Economics Section, Social Sciences Division, National Science Foundation, 1992.
  
  
• Associate Editor of Econometrica, 1989-92.
  
  
• Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1988.
  
  
• Associate Editor of The Journal of Economic Theory, 1984-93.
  
  
• Panel Member, Economics Division, National Science Foundation, 1984-85.
  
  
• National Science Foundation Grants, 1982-1984, 1984-1986, 1986-1989, 1990-92, 1992-94, and 1995-98.
  
  
• IBM Research Professor, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University,1981-1982, 1985-1986, 1987-1988.