Chad Jones

Associate Professor
Department of Economics, UC Berkeley

Tel: 510.643.1564 Fax: 510.642.6615

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Areas of interest

  • Innovation-based models leading to long-run economic growth
  • Health spending, life expectancy, and technical change linkages
  • The role of innovation, technology adoption, and property rights in determining country productivity and wealth

Work in progress

Following up on earlier work, Chad Jones is continuing to study ways in which innovation-based models lead to long-run economic growth. See, for example, his working papers "Growth and Ideas" and "Growth, Capital Shares, and a New Perspective on Production Functions." Jones also is considering the important linkages among health spending, life expectancy, and technical change. Finally, building on Hall and Jones (1999), a third dimension of Jones' research is concerned with understanding the enormous differences in productivity across countries, addressing the question, What roles do differences in innovation, technology adoption, and property rights play in explaining why some countries are so much richer than others?

Education

Ph.D. in Economics, M.I.T. 1993
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1989-92
A.B. Summa cum laude in Economics, Harvard University, 1989

Selected research

"Growth, Capital Shares, and a New Perspective on Production Functions" U.C. Berkeley mimeo, June 12, 2003.

"Growth and Ideas" U.C. Berkeley mimeo, January 9, 2003. (Draft Version 1.0 of a chapter for the Handbook of Economic Growth).

"Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run" Advances in Macroeconomics, August 2001, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 1.

"Too Much of a Good Thing? The Economics of Investment in R&D" (with John Williams), Journal of Economic Growth, March 2000, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 65-85.