KENNETH HARTTGEN CONTACT INFORMATION ETH Zürich Email: harttgen@nadel.ethz.ch Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences Phone: +41 44 632 98 25 Clausiusstrasse 37, CLD Fax: +41 44 632 12 07 8008 Zürich, Switzerland Web: http://www.nadel.ethz.ch/people/kennethh EDUCATION Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.), Economics, University of Göttingen, May 2007 M.Sc. (Diplom), Economics, University of Göttingen, May 2003 A-Levels (Abitur), Schule an der Alvin-Lonke Strasse, Bremen, July 1996 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS ETH Zürich, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences Senior Researcher in Development Economics, October 2010 present University of Göttingen, Department of Economics Assistant Professor, Courant Centre Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analyses, Prof. Stephan Klasen, PhD, May 2010 September 2010 University of Göttingen, Department of Economics Temporary professorship, Chair Prof. Stephan Klasen, PhD, Developing Economics, October 2009 April 2010 University of Göttingen, Department of Economics Post Doc, Chair Prof. Stephan Klasen, PhD, Developing Economics, May 2007 September 2009 CONSULTING 2014 on inequality in income and education using EU-SILC and LIS data sets, November December 2014 2013 on inequality between and across countries and on the multidimensional poverty index (MPI), March September 2013 United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Background study for the 2013 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, May 2013 2012 on inequality between and across countries, March May 2012 United Nation Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Background study on gender and MDGs, July August 2012 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Two background studies for the Regional Human Development Report on Africa 2012, 2012 United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Background study for the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report on analyzing educational inequality, July August 2011 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Background study on inequality between and across countries, March May 2011 World Bank, Background study on gender inequality in Western Balkans countries, February March 2011 Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, Conceptual framework on gender and social equity, 2010
United Nation Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Background study on gender and MDGs, May July 2010 2010 on calculating a household specific Human Development Index, December 2009 February 2010 European University Institute, Background study for the 2009 European Report on Development on measuring progress of fragile states towards the MDGs, July 2009 2009 on calculating a Human Development Index by internal migrational status, May July 2009 United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Background study for the 2009 Education for All Global Monitoring Report on analyzing educational marginalization, May June 2009 German Development Bank (KfW), Background study for the development of a MDG monitoring instrument, October December 2008 2008 on calculating a Human Development Index adjusted for inequality, July 2008 United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Background study for the 2009 Education for All Global Monitoring Report on measuring pro-poor growth in education, May 2008 Rockefeller Foundation & Jacobs Foundation, Background study on well-being of migrant youth and migrant children in Europe, February April 2008 2007 on calculating a Human Development Index adjusted for inequality, June July 2007 Standard & Poors, Sovereign credit ratings, July September 2006 2006 on calculating a Human Development Index adjusted for inequality, May June 2006 World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Tracking pro-poor growth in non-income MDGs, May September 2005 World Bank, Madagascar Risk and Social Strategy Vulnerability Analysis, March May 2005 German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ, former GTZ), Project management in public finance, April June 2005 German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ, former GTZ), Report on International Financing for Development, April July 2003 FELLOWSHIPS Research Fellowship, European University Institute, European Report on Development 2010, January 2010 December 2010 RESEARCH GRANTS Differential Mortality and the Measurement of Welfare, with Stephan Klasen, Principal Investigator (KL1260/5-2), German Research Foundation (DFG), January 2006 December 2009 PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES Analyzing Nutritional Impacts of Price and Income Related Shocks in Malawi, with Stephan Klasen and Ramona Rischke, Food Policy, 4/2015. HIV surveys in older adults: better data, better health, with Sebastian Vollmer, Tobias Alfven, Jude Padayachy, Peter D Ghys, Till Bärnighausen, The Lancet HIV, 2015, 2 (2): e40-e41.
Is Economic Growth Associated with Reduction in Child Undernutrition? Evidence from 115 Demographic and Health Surveys from 37 Low- and Middle-income Countries, with Malavika A. Subramanyam, Jocelyn Finlay, Stephan Klasen, S.V. Subramanian, and Sebastian Vollmer, The Lancet Global Health, 2014, 2 (4): e225- e234. National Identity and Religious Diversity with Matthias Opfinger, Kyklos, 2014, 67 (3): 346-367 A Reversal in the Relationship of Human Development with Fertility?, with Sebastian Vollmer, Demography, 2014, 51 (1): 173-184. Patterns of frailty in older adults: Comparing results from higher and lower income countries using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), with Paul Kowal, Holger Strulik, Somnath Chatterji, and Sebastian Vollmer, PLOS ONE, 2013, 8(10): 1-11. Using an Asset Index to Simulate Household Income, with Sebastian Vollmer, Economics Letters, 2013, 121(2): 257-262. An African Growth Miracle? Or: What Do Asset Indices Tell Us about Trends in Economic Performance?, with Stephan Klasen and Sebastian Vollmer, Review of Income and Wealth, 59, Special Issue: S37-S61, 2013 Economic Growth and Child Undernutrition in Africa, with Stephan Klasen and Sebastian Vollmer, Population and Development Review, 2013, 39(3): 397-412 Multilevel structured additive regression, with Stefan Lang, Nikolaus Umlauf, Peter Wechselberger, and Thomas Kneib, Statistics and Computing, 2012, DOI 10.1007/s11222-012-9366-0 Do Fragile Countries Experience Worse MDG Progress?, with Stephan Klasen, Journal of Development Studies, 2012, DOI:10.1080/00220388.2012.713471 Deadly cities? Spatial inequalities in mortality in sub-saharan Africa, with Isabel Günther, Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (3): 469-486 The history and impact of social security in South Africa: experiences and lessons, with Stephan Klasen and Ingrid Woolard, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 32 (4): 357-380 A Household-Based Human Development Index, with Stephan Klasen, World Development, 2012, 12 (4): 878-899 A Human Development Index by Internal Migrational Status, with Stephan Klasen, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2011, 12 (3): 393-424 Pro-Poor Progress in Education in Developing Countries?, with Mark Misselhorn and Stephan Klasen, Review of Economics and Institutions, 2010, 1 (1) Inequality in Human Development: An empirical assessment of 32 countries, with Michael Grimm, Stephan Klasen, Mark Misselhorn, Teresa Munzi, Timothy Smeeding, Social Indicator Research, 2009, DOI 10.1007/s11205-009-9497-7 Estimating Vulnerability to Covariate and Idiosyncratic Shocks, with Isabel Günther, World Development, 2009, 37 (7): 1222-1234 Measuring Pro-Poor Growth with Non-Income Indicators, with Melanie Grosse and Stephan Klasen, in Jacques Silber and Nanak Kakwani (eds.), Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Conceptual Issues, Empirical Illustrations and Policy Implications, World Development, 2008, 36 (6): 1024-1047 A Human Development Index by Income Groups, with Michael Grimm, Mark Misselhorn and Stephan Klasen, World Development, 2008, 36 (12): 2527-2546 Longer life, Higher Welfare?, with Michael Grimm, Oxford Economic Papers, 2007, 60 (2): 193-211 SELECTED WORKING PAPERS What is driving the 'African Growth Miracle'?, with Margaret S. McMillan, 2014, NBER Working Paper No 20077. Desired Fertility and Children Born across Time and Space, with Isabel Günther, Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers No. 144, 2013, University of Göttingen
Inequality Decomposition without Income or Expenditure Data: Using an Asset Index to Simulate Household Income, with Sebastian Vollmer, UNDP Human Development Reports Research Paper 2011/01, 2011, UNDP, New York Multilevel structured additive regression, with Stefan Lang, Nikolaus Umlauf, Peter Wechselberger, and Thomas Kneib, Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2012-07, 2012, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck Analyzing Nutritional Impacts of Price and Income Related Shocks in Malawi and Uganda, with Stephan Klasen, Working Paper 2012-014, 2012, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Africa, New York Economic Growth and Child Undernutrition in Africa, with Stephan Klasen and Sebastian Vollmer, Working Paper 2012-013, 2012, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Africa, New York In the Nation We Trust: National Identity as a Substitute for Religion, with Matthias Opfinger, University of Hannover, Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 491, 2012, University of Hannover Computation of Statistics using DHS Surveys (ICF Macro), with Stephan Klasen, Prepared for Progress of the World s Women 2011 2012, 2010, UN Women, New York Educational marginalization across developed and developing countries, with Stephan Klasen, background Paper for the UNESCO Global Monitoring Report 2009, No 2010/ED/EFA/MRT/PI/05, 2010, UNESCO, Paris An assessment of South Africa s reform post-apartheid for education mobility, with Carola Grün and Stephan Klasen, background Paper for the UNESCO Global Monitoring Report 2009, No 2010/ED/EFA/MRT/PI/03, 2010, UNESCO, Paris MDG Reporting: Wirkungen von EZ-Interventionen auf MDGs, Wachstum, Globale Umwelt und Good Governance, with Stephan Klasen and Felix Povel, Ibero-America Institute Discussion Paper No. 193, 2009, University of Göttingen Well-being of Migrant Children and Migrant Youth in Europe, with Stephan Klasen, Ibero-America Institute Discussion Paper No. 181, 2008, University of Göttingen The Impact of HIV on Children's Welfare, Ibero-America Institute Discussion Paper No. 157, 2006, University of Göttingen A Multilevel Approach to Explain Child Mortality and Undernutrition in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, with Mark Misselhorn, Ibero-America Institute Discussion Paper No. 152. 2006, University of Göttingen OTHER PUBLICATIONS Africa s Quiet Revolution,, with Margaret McMillan, in Justin Lin and Celestin Monga (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, 2014, Oxford University Press, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687107.013.003 Measuring Pro-Poor Growth in Progress Towards the Non-Income Millennium Development Goals, with Melanie Grosse and Stephan Klasen, in Mark McGillivray (ed.) Achieving the Millennium Development Goals, 2008, Palgrave: Macmillan. Empirical Analysis of Determinants, Distribution and Dynamics of Poverty, Göttingen Studies in Development Economics, 2007, Peter Lang. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Development Economics, ETH Zürich, Winter 2014, Summer 2015 International Aid and Development, ETH Zürich, Summer 2014 Developing Countries in the World Economy, ETH Zürich, Summer 2013 Macro and Micro Perspectives of Poverty Reduction, ETH Zürich, Winter 2011 Survey techniques and analysis of firm and household data, University of Göttingen, Summer 2011 Development Economics (Micro economics), University of Göttingen, Winter 2010, Summer 2009, 2008, 2006
Development of Africa (Macro and Micro economics), University of Göttingen, Winter 2010 Statistical and Economic Analysis with Stata, University of Göttingen, Winter 2010 Growth and Economic Development (Macro economics), University of Göttingen, Winter 2009 Freakonomics, Reading course, University of Göttingen, Summer 2010, 2009, Winter 2009 Development Economics (Macro economics), University of Göttingen, Winter 2008 Quantitative Methods in Empirical Economic Research, University of Göttingen, Winter 2006, 2005 Trade and Development in Latin America, University of Göttingen, Summer 2005, 2006, Winter 2004, 2005 Growth, Development and Poverty Reduction, University of Göttingen, Winter 2005 Development Economics, University of Pforzheim, Summer 2013, 2012, 2009, 2008, Winter 2009, 2008 Social Responsibility for Sustainable Development, University of Pforzheim, Summer 2010 REFEREEING ACTIVITY African Development Review, 2013 BMC Pediatrics, 2013 Feminist Economics, 2014 Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2011 Journal of African Economics, 2014 Journal of Asian Economies 2015 Journal of Development Studies, 2014 Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015 Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2009 PLOS ONE, 2014 Population and Development Review, 2015 Population Studies, 2015 Review of Applied Health Economics and Politics, 2014 Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2008 Statistical Modeling, 2010 Social Science and Research, 2010 World Development, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012. 2009
PRESENTATIONS 2015 International Conference on Globalization and Development (GLAD) (Göttingen, Germany), University of Göttingen 2014 UNU-WIDER Conference on Inequality measurement, trends, impacts and policies (Helsinki, Finland), UNO-World Institute for Development Economics Research 2014 3rd Lower Saxony Workshop in Applied Economics (Hannover, Germany), NIW Lower Saxony Institute for Economic Research 2014 International Conference of the Courant Research Center "Poverty, Equity, and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries" (Göttingen, Germany), Courant Research Center "Poverty, Equity, and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries 2014 Alpine Population Conference (La Thuile, Italy), DONDENA Center for Research on Social Dynamics 2013 - UNU-WIDER Conference on Inclusive Growth in Africa: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences 2013 (Helsinki, Finland), UNO-World Institute for Development Economics Research 2013 XIV Conference on International Economics 2013 (Mallorca, Spain), Center for Development Research 2012 - Center for Development Research (Göttingen, Germany) 2011 - Center for Development Research (Berlin, Germany) 2010 - Conference on the European Report on Development 2010 Promoting Resilience through Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa (Dakar, Senegal), Center for Development Research (Hannover, Germany), Workshop on the European Report on Development 2010 (Florence, Italy) 2009 - Workshop on the Human Development Report 2010, UNDP (New York, United States), Conference for the European Report on Development 2009 (Florence, Italy), Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, (Oxford, UK), Conference The Challenges of Fragility to Development Policy Conference for the European Report on Development 2009 (Barcelona, Spain) 2008 - Workshop on Well-Being of Migrant Children (Jacobs Foundation) (Bellagio, Italy), UNO-World Institute for Development Economics Research (Helsinki, Finland) 2007 - Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOEG) (Klagenfurt, Austria), Second Pegnet Workshop (Berlin, Germany) 2006 - Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE) (Seville, Spain), First Pegnet Workshop (Kiel, Germany) 2005 - Workshop International Economic Relations (Göttingen, Germany), Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE) (Geneva, Switzerland), XIX Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) (Paris, France), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, A Symposium organized by the Ibero- America Institute for Economic Research at the University of Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany) Zürich, July 2015