Jonathan Haughton, Associate Professor

Jonathan Haughton

Professor, Economics
Senior Economist, Beacon Hill Institute for Public Policy 

 

 

 

 

Mailing Address

Department of Economics
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108

Phone: (617) 573 8127
Fax: (617) 994-4216
E-mail: jonathan.haughton@suffolk.edu

 

Office Location

One Bowdoin Square, 6th Floor

Education

Harvard University

Ph.D. in Economics, 1983

Trinity College, Dublin

B.A. (Mod.) in Economics, 1977 Mathematical Economics and Statistics.
CFA charterholder Chartered Financial Analyst, since 2002.

 

Employment

Full-time faculty member at Wellesley College (1996-97), Northeastern University (1989-1997), and University of Maryland Baltimore County (1983-1987).  Research Associate, Harvard Institute for International Development (1987-89), and Instructor, Harvard University (1982-83).

 

Affiliations include Research Fellow, International Tax Program, Harvard Law School (1989-96); Visiting Professor, National Economics University, Hanoi (Jan-May 1994), and Temple University, Japan (summer 1987).

 

Has taught or undertaken research in over twenty countries on five continents, including assignments for the World Bank, USAID, African Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, UNDP, and Soros Foundation. 

 

Honors

Excellent Teacher of the Year award, Northeastern University, 1994.
Instructor of the Year award, Political Economy Club, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1985.
Allyn Young Prize for excellence in teaching, Harvard University (each year 1978/9 through 1982/3). 

 

Selected Publications

Over two dozen articles in refereed journals, more than a dozen book chapters, three edited books, and over a hundred reports, including the following:

[1] Tax Incidence in Vietnam, forthcoming in Asian Economic Journal [with Nguyen The Quan and Nguyen Hoang Bao].
[2] The Incidence of State-Level Taxes on Oil and Gas, forthcoming in Public Finance Review [with David G. Tuerck].
[3] Explaining the Pattern of Regional Unemployment: The Case of the Midi-Pyrénées Region [with Yves Aragon et al.]  Papers in Regional Science, 82:155-174, 2003.
[4] Ten Puzzles and Surprises: Economic and Social Change in Vietnam, 1993-1998, Comparative Economic Studies, Fall 2000, 17(4): 67-92.
[5] Explaining Child Nutrition in Vietnam, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1997, 45(3), 541-556 [with Dominique Haughton].
[6] Gasoline Tax as a Corrective Tax: Estimates for the United States, 1970-1991, The Energy Journal, April 1996, 17(2), 103-126 [with Soumodip Sarkar].
[7] Son Preference in Vietnam, Studies in Family Planning, November/December 1995, pp. 325-337. [with Dominique Haughton].
[8] Adding Mystery to the Case of the Missing Currency, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, 1995, 595-602.
[9] Designing VAT Systems:  How Many Rates and At What Levels?, Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1996, [MS 21 pp.], [with Ali Agha].
[10] The Employment and Welfare Effects of Quantitative Restrictions on Steel Imports into the United States, 1955-1987, Journal of World Trade, 26 (April 1992), pp. 95-118 [with Balu Swaminathan].
[11] Should OPEC Countries Use the Dollar in Pricing Oil?, The Journal of Energy and Development, 14 (1991), pp. 193-210.
[12] Living Standards during an Economic Boom: Vietnam 1993-1998. [with Dominique Haughton and Nguyen Phong].  December 2001.  United Nations Development Program and Statistical Publishing House, Hanoi.  Also appeared in Vietnamese. 
[13] Introduction to Poverty Analysis [with Shahid Khandker et al.], World Bank Institute, December 2004.  Version of January 2002 [211 pp.] available on line at
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[14] “Cartels,” in Encyclopedia of the Developing World, 3 vols., ed. Thomas Leonard.  New York: Routledge, 2005.
[15] “Reconstruction of War-Torn Economies: Lessons for East Timor,” in Hal Hill and Joao Saldanha (eds.), Economic Development of East Timor, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies Press, 2001.  [Also published in Bahasa Indonesia, 2006.]
[16] "Chapter 1:  Historical Overview," in The Economy of Ireland: Policy and Performance of a Small European Country, 2nd edition,  J.W. O’Hagan (ed.), Macmillan, London, 2000, 1-48.
[17] Free But Costly: An Economic Analysis of a Wind Farm in Nantucket Sound [with Douglas Giuffre and David Tuerck].  Beacon Hill Institute, Boston.  February 2004.

Courses Taught

EC 151: Economic & Human Geography
EC 724: Cost-Benefit Analysis & Impact Eval.
EC 742: Transition/Development Economics
EC 825: Advanced Public Finance

 

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