Claus C Pörtner PhD
Assistant Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, Economics, University of Copenhagen
MSc, Economics, University of Copenhagen
MA, Development Economics, University of Sussex
BSc, Economics, University of Copenhagen
Syllabus
ECON 310-01 - Spring 2013
ECON 310-02 - Spring 2013
ECON 476 - Winter 2013
ECON 376 - Spring 2012
ECON 272-02 - Winter 2012
ECON 272-03 - Winter 2012
Personal Bio
Claus C Pörtner joins Albers as an Assistant Professor of Economics. He has previously worked at the University of Washington, Brown University, Georgetown University, and worked as a consultant for the World Bank in Washington, DC, and Ghana. His research interests include household and population economics, development, and labor. He has published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Population Economics, and Journal of African Economies. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses focusing mainly on development and population issues.