Director of the Population Studies & Training Center
Professor of Economics and Community Health
Office: 112 Mencoff Hall
Tel: (401) 863-2537
Fax: (401) 863-3351
Background
Andrew Foster began is connection with the field of population as an undergraduate at Princeton University where he worked as a Research Assistant in the Office of Population Research and wrote a thesis on Adolescent Subfecundity in Bangladesh. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, where he was an affiliate at the Graduate Group in Demography. He then was an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Pennsylvania where he wan an active member of the Population Studies Center. He subsequently moved to Brown University in 1998. He currently serves as a permanent member of the NICHD SSPS Study Section and on the NAS panel on Human Dimensions of Global Change.
Interests
Current Projects
- Children’s Health and Nutrition, Adult Outcomes & Mobility
- Groundwater and Land Management in Rural India
- Health and Air Quality Regulation in Developing Countries
- Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
- Integrated Graduate Education and Training Grant (IGERT) on Inequality in the Developing World
- Measuring the Social and Environmental Impact of the UHE Belo Monte Dam Complex in Pará, Brazil
- Population and Economic Recovery in Coastal Aceh: Aid and Village Institutions
- Shaping Long-Term Care in America