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Marcus Alexander

Address:
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
CGIS N226
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

telephone: 614.909.4618
email: malexand@fas.harvard.edu
web: sites.google.com/site/dnapolym3
blog: politicsandhealth.blogspot.com

Research fields
American politics, health politics and economics, methodology

Education
Harvard University, Cambridge
PhD, Government (MA 2008, ABD, PhD expected June 2009)
Dissertation: Partisan Politics of Medical Care in the U.S.
Committee: Gary King, Nicholas Christakis, Jennifer Hochschild, Torben Iversen

RAND Mini-Medical School summer course for social scientists, Santa Monica, CA

Stanford University summer courses in physics and biochemistry, Palo Alto, CA

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
MPhil, Politics
Thesis: Political Economy of Identity Formation

Yale University, New Haven, CT
BA, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and Political Science

Awards
Taubman Center Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard Kennedy School
Russell Sage Foundation Research Award for Behavioral Economics
Political Economy Fellowship, Harvard University
Inequality and Social Policy Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard Kennedy School
Econometric Society World Congress Bursary
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Public Leadership, Kennedy School of Government
Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes research workshop grant, UCSD
Abby and George O'Neill Fund Grant, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Travel Grant, Department of Government, Harvard University
Travel Grant, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Dillon Fellowship, Harvard University
Graduate Student Fellowship, Harvard University
Sir John Hicks Award in Economic History, Department of Economics, Oxford
Department Fund Grant, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford
Hulme Grant, Brasenose College, Oxford
Clarendon Fund Award, University of Oxford
Markle Junior Research Fellowship, PCMLP, Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Fox International Fellowship, Yale University
European Union Grant, Yale University
Frank Patterson Prize, Yale University Political Science Department
Tristan Perlroth PRize, Yale Center for International and Area Studies
Trumbull College Class of '55 Fellowship, Trumbull College, Yale University
Strongman Memorial Scholarship
British Columbia Provincial Scholarship Canada Governor's General Bronze Medal

Academic Research, Teaching and Advising Experience
Current positions at Harvard University:
Research Assistant
Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis Research Group
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Research Student
Dr. Charles S. Day's Hand Research Group
Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery, Department of Orthopedics
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston

Doctoral Research Fellowships
Taubman Center for the Study of Local and State Government, Center for Public Leadership, Interdisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government.

Concentration Advisor and Research Fellow in Government
Courses taught in 2005-2008 include:
SOC 190: Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context;
GOV 20: Introduction to Comparative Politics;
GOV 97a: Constitutional Democracy in America;
GOV 97b: Introduction to International Relations and Comparative Politics;
GOV 98r: Contemporary Politics of the Middle East;
GOV 99: Senior Thesis Research Workshop;
PAL128: Leadership core required course in the Kennedy School of Government
MPA and MPPA programs.

Resident Tutor in Government and Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Students' Advisor Lowell House, Harvard University

Graduate Student Associate
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies

Previous academic positions:
Research Assistant
Professor Gary King, Institute for Quantitative Social Science

Research Assistant
Professor Robert H. Bates, Harvard Department of Government and Center for
International Development

Markle Foundation Junior Research Fellow
Three-year research at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Fox International Fellow
One-year research in Russian presidential politics at the Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia.

Research Assistant
PVA/EPVA Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research, Yale School of
Medicine and VA Medical Center, West Haven, CT

Student Assistant
Department of Chemistry general, inorganic and physical chemistry student lab courses, Yale University

Nonacademic Work Experience
Amgen, European Commission, UK Department for International Development, Reuters, CBS Evening News, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Publications in Peer-reviewed Journals
1. Alexander M, Christakis NA, Bias and Asymmetric Loss in Expert Forecasts, Journal of Health Economics 27: 4 (2008): 1095-1108.
2. Alexander M, Bradbury B, Kewalramani R, Barlev A, Mohanty SA, Globe D, Chronic Kidney Disease and US Healthcare Resource Utilization in a Nationally Representative Sample, American Journal of Nephrology, forthcoming.
3. Alexander M, Franko O, Makhni E, Zurakowski D, Day C. Validation of a Modern Activity Hand Survey, Journal of Hand Surgery (E), 2008.
4. Franko OI, Lal S, Pauyo T, Alexander M , Zurakowski D, Day C. Validation of an Objective Device for Assessing Circumductive Wrist Motion, Journal of Hand Surgery 33A: 1293-1300, 2008.
5. Alexander M, Kewalramani R, Agodoa I, Globe D, Association of anemia correction with health-related quality of life in patients not on dialysis, Current Medical Research and Opinion 23 :12 (2007): 2997-3008.
6. Alexander M, Determinants of Social Capital: New Evidence on Religion, Diversity and Structural Change, British Journal of Political Science 37 (2007): 368-377.
7. Alexander M, Democratization and Hybrid Regimes: Comparative Evidence from Southeast Europe, Eastern European Politics & Societies, forthcoming.
8. Alexander M, The Internet and Democratization: The Development of Russian Internet Policy, Demokratizatsiya, 12:4 (2004): 607-627.
9. Fjell J, Hjelmstrom P, Hormuzdiar W, Alexander M, Aglieco F, Tyrell L, Dib-Hajj S, Waxman SG, Black JA, Localization of the Tetrodotoxin-resistant Sodium Channel NaN in Nociceptors, Neuroreport 11: 1(2000): 199-202.

Selected Presentations
1. Alexander M, Harding M, Lamarche C, The Political Economy of Heterogeneous Development: Quantile Eects of Income and Education. SIEPR Discussion paper No. 07-052, Stanford University, Aug 2008. Paper to be presented at the American Economics Association Meeting, San Francisco, 2009.
2. Alexander Mand Christia F, An Experimental Study of Institutions and Ethnic Cooperation in the Aftermath of a Civil War, Comparative Political Economy Workshop, Yale University, 2008.
3. Alexander M, Death and Politics: How Partisanship and Inequality Shape Health in the OECD,Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, GSA Seminar, Oct. 2008.
4. Alexander M, Horton HA, Pauyo T, Ramirez MA, Day CS, The Effects of Workers' Compensation on Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Hand and Wrist Patients, American Society for the Surgery of the Hand, Chicago, 2008.
5. Alexander M and Harding M, Is poverty to blame for civil war? New evidence from nonlinear xed eects estimation, Econometric Society World Congress, 2005.
6. Alexander M, Growing Old in a New America: Latino Immigration and Health Inequalities, Conference "Embracing Diversity: Latino Immigration and the Transformation of American Society," Harvard University, Oct. 13-14, 2006.
7. Alexander M, Rethinking Justice from a Behavioral Political Economy Perspective, Paper presented at the conference \Inequality and American Democracy: Building on the APSA Task Force," University of Minnesota, April 7-8, 2006.
8. Alexander M and Harding M, Beliefs over the Unknown: Understanding the Threat of Terrorism, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 20-23, 2006.
9. Alexander M and Christia F, An Experimental Study of Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods Provision, Laboratory for Comparative Ethnic Processes, University of California, San Diego, Dec. 10-12, 2005.
10. Alexander M and Harding M, Risk-Sharing Networks: Structures and Shocks in the Political Economy of Development, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Sept. 2-4, 2005.
11. Alexander M, Political Economy of Identity Formation: An Overlapping Generations Model, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 7-12, 2005.
12. Alexander M, Dynamics of Authoritarian Oppression: Survival of Authoritarian and Hybrid Regimes, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept. 2-5, 2004.
13. Alexander M and Harding M, Unemployment and Institutional Complementarities: The Case for Fundamental Reform with the OECD, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept. 2-5, 2004.
14. Alexander M and Harding M, American Hegemony and Democratic Peace: A Dynamic Panel Analysis with Lagged Endogenous Regressors, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Aug. 28-31, 2003.

Memberships, Service and Activities
Memberships: American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, American Economic Association

Referee: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Political Analysis, Political Communication

Conferences:
Panel Chair and Discussant, American Political Science Association Meetings
Panel Chair, International Political Science Association Congress
Organizer, Ethnographies of the Internet, University of Oxford
Organizer, Conference on India-Pakistan Relations, Yale University
Organizer, Model United Nations and Security Council Simulations, Yale

Other service and activities:
Sophomore Advisor, Harvard College Undergraduate Advising Oce
President, International Conflict Research Group, Yale University
Editorials Editor and Member of the Board, Yale Daily News
Vice President, Yale International Relations Association
Member and rower, Brasenose College Boat Club
Member and player, Yale College Football Rugby Club