NBER Profile: Timothy Guinnane.

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Timothy Guinnane was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors this fall to represent the Economic History Association. He is the Philip Golden Bartlett Professor of Economic History at Yale University.

Guinnane received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1988. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in 2000-1 and the Pitt Professor at the University of Cambridge in 2002-3. During 2007-8 he will be a Fellow at the Center for Advance Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Guinnane's early research concerned demographic change in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on Ireland. His demographic interests continue, and he is currently working on projects that deal with the fertility transition in Ireland and in Germany. Another interest is the problem of credit for poor people and how such...