Presidential Faculty Fellows/Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PFF/PECASE)

该奖项根据美国国家科学基金会的科学家和工程师总统早期职业奖计划（PECASE）向迈克尔·克雷默博士提供支持，该计划以前称为总统教员研究员（PFF）计划。这些项目是应美国总统的要求设立的，旨在表彰和支持美国一些最杰出的科学和工程教师在其职业生涯早期的学术活动。奖励的目的是让科学家承担自己设计的，创新的研究和教学项目，建立研究和教学计划，并从事其他学术相关活动。该奖项将允许研究者在分析经济增长和经济发展方面继续他的研究兴趣。他研究了解释工业经济体之间不同增长率的因素，以及决定发展中国家生活水平和经济增长率的力量。他开发了极具创造性和洞察力的模型来描述增长过程，并在发展中国家教育和卫生政策的作用方面做了开创性的工作。在五年赠款期间，他将继续研究发展中国家的长期经济增长和社会政策，通过各种研究考察生产过程、技术进步的决定因素、教育投入的影响以及卫生政策对经济增长的影响。在教学和教育领域，克雷默博士正在振兴发展经济学领域。他将为经济学专业的学生设计新的课程并重新组织课程。他还为非经济学专业的学生开设了新的高级本科课程，这些学生对工业国家和发展中国家的政治、社会学和经济增长过程感兴趣。克雷默博士正在重新定义经济发展领域，并在发展中国家的学术工作和应用之间建立桥梁。他的研究有望继续对劳动经济学、卫生经济学、教育和发展经济学等问题产生重要见解。此外，这个为期五年的奖项将为他提供在发展经济学这一重要领域培养本科生和研究生的机会。

This award provides support to Dr. Michael Kremer under the National Science Foundation's Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers Program (PECASE) formerly called the Presidential Faculty Fellows (PFF) Program. These programs were established at the request of the President of the United States to recognize and support the scholarly activities of some of the Nation's most outstanding science and engineering faculty members early in their careers. Awards are intended to allow the scientists to undertake self-designed, innovative research and teaching projects, to establish research and teaching programs, and to pursue other academic related activities. This award will allow the investigator to pursue his research interests in the analysis of economic growth and economic development. He examines the factors that explain divergent growth rates among industrial economies, as well as the forces that determine standards of living and economic growth rates in developing nations. He has developed highly creative and insightful models to describe the growth process, and done path-breaking work on the role of education and health policy in developing nations. During the five year grant, he will continue study of both long-run economic growth and social policy in developing countries through various studies looking at production processes, the determinants of technological progress, the effects of educational inputs, and the effects of health policies on economic growth. In the area of teaching and education, Dr. Kremer is revitalizing the field of development economics. He will be designing new classes and reorganizing the coursework for students majoring in economics. He is also developing new advanced undergraduate courses designed for students not majoring in economics who are interested in the politics, sociology, and the economic growth process in both industrial and developing nations. Dr. Kremer is redefining the field of economic development and building bridges between academic work and applications in developing countries. His research promises to continue to produce important insights into issues in labor economics, health economics, and the economics of education and development. Also, this five year award will provide an opportunity for him to train undergraduate and graduate students in the important field of development economics.