Belton M. Fleisher
Research Fellow

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Fleisher Belton Fleisher attended Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1961. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago 1961-65 and joined the Ohio State University faculty in 1965, where he is professor of economics. He spent the year 1963-64 at the London School of Economics. He has published a number of books, including The Economics of Delinquency (1966) and what is considered by many to be the first "modern" labor economics text, Labor Economics: Theory and Evidence (1970). In 1989 and 1990 he taught economics at the Renmin University of China in Beijing. He has authored and coauthored over 40 articles in professional journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Education, and China Economic Review and in a number of books and symposia. He has published 7 books and served as editor of a number of symposia, roundtables, and books of conference proceedings. Since 1990, his research has focused on economic growth and labor and productivity in the Chinese economy. He currently serves as a co-editor of China Economic Review and he is Vice President of the Chinese Economists Society for the year 2006-2007.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in March 2007.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
3576  Belton M. Fleisher
Haizheng Li
Min Qiang Zhao
Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
(in press in: Journal of Development Economics)
2823  Xiaojun Wang
Belton M. Fleisher
Haizheng Li
Shi Li
Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment
(updated version downloadable here)
2703  Belton M. Fleisher
Haizheng Li
Min Qiang Zhao
Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
1446  Belton M. Fleisher
Haizheng Li
Shi Li
Xiaojun Wang
Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China
1182  Belton M. Fleisher
Klara Sabirianova Peter
Xiaojun Wang
Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 351-370)
 

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