Professor Isaac Ehrlich's Short CV - General

         Education

  • Ph.D. (with Distinction), Columbia University , 1970
  • B.A. (Cum Laude), Hebrew University of Jerusalem , 1964

    Current Academic Positions
  • SUNY and UB Distinguished Professor
  • Chair of the Economics Department in the College of Arts and Sciences
  • Melvin H. Baker Professor of American Enterprise , and Member of the FAME Department, in the Management School at SUNY Buffalo (UB)
  • Director of the Signature Center of Excellence on Human Capital, Technology Transfer, and Economic Growth and Development (UB)
  • Editor in Chief of the Journal of Human Capital, the University of Chicago Press
  • Honorary Professor at the City University of Hong Kong .
  • Research Associate (senior title), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  • Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Analysis at the University of Toronto .

    Previous Academic Positions
  • Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago,1969-1978
  • Senior Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1969-1977
  • Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University, 1971-72
  • Visiting Associate Professor of Law and Economics, University of Virginia,1973
  • Visiting Professor of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1992-1993.

    Academic and Professional Honors

  • Appointed member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to New York State Governor, David A. Patterson, July 2008.
  • Named Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Capital, published by the University of Chicago Press , by the Board of University of Chicago Publications, December 2006
  • Named SUNY Distinguished professor by the SUNY Board of trustees March, 2006.
  • Named NYSTAR Distinguished Professor of 2005, by the New York Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research.
  • Appointed Research Associate at the national Bureau of Economic research – Health Economics Program.
  • Named UB Distinguished Professor by UB’s President and Provost, 2002.
  • Awarded Honorary Doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) from the University of Orleans, France in a ceremony held in Fall October 2002 in Orleans .
  • Ranked # 61 in terms of total citations, and # 37 in terms of total citations per number of years following the Ph.D. degree, in Medoff's The Ranking of Economists, J. of Econ. Education, Fall 1989.
  • Also ranked among the 100 most cited economists in Marshall H. Medoff “A Citation-Based Analysis of Economists and Economic Programs” The American Economist vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring 1996).
  • Selected to appear in Who is Who in Economics: A Bibliographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1700-1980, Mark Blaug and Paul Sturges, eds., Cambridge : The MIT Press, first edition, 1983.
  • Also selected to appear in all subsequent (2nd to 4th editions) of this collection, the latest in 2003.
  • Admitted as Member of the prestigious Mont Pellerin Society, Fall 1998.
  • Appointed Honorary Professor of the City University of Hong Kong , 1999.

    Selected to contribute entries in the following authoritative encyclopedic collections:

  • Economics of Deterrence – Theory” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke and New York ), forthcoming, 2008.
  • “Economics of Crime in The Encyclopedia of Law and Society, edited by David S. Clark, Sage Publications, CA: Thousands Oaks, 2006.
  • “Criminal Justice” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Peter Newman, Editor, Macmillan Press, 1998.
  • “Crime and Punishment” in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics.  John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, eds., London : Macmillan Press, 1987.
  • Member of the US Presidential Health Policy Advisory Group and the Transition Team for Health Policy(1980-1981).

    Grants, Awards, and Major Contracts
  • Multiple Grants in Law and Economics from the National Science Foundation through the NBER (1970-78) and from the US Department of Justice (1979-1987).
  • Five-year grant from the US Agency of International Development (USAID) for studies in economic growth and development(1987-1992).
  • "Economics of transition," HKUST (1992-1994).
  • "Income Growth and Income Equality, An International Comparison," Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Taiwan (1994-1996).
  • "Life Protection and the Value of Life Saving," Chaire D'Economie et de Gestion de la Sante, Institut D'Etudes Politiques De Paris (1996-97).
  • “Faculty Development grant”, New York Office of Science, technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR), 2006-2009.
  • Contract from New York State’s Comptroller, Thomas, P. DiNapoli,, awarded to the Signature Center of Excellence on Human Capital to develop forecasting models of  New York State’s tax revenue as well as annual and mid-year report - Principal Investigator, 2007. 

  • Significant Public Service

  • Member of the U.S. Presidential Health Policy Advisory Group and the President's Transition Team on Health Policy, 1980-1981.
  • Member of the Hong Kong Government's Health Services Committee, and of the Expert Subcommittee on Grant Applications and Awards, 1993-94
  • Member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to New York Governor David A. Patterson, 2008

  • Professional  Activities

  • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Human Capital, 2007 -
  • Director – Center of Excellence on Human capital, Technology transfer, and Economic Growth and Development (HEAD), SUNY at Buffalo , March 2006 -
  • Research Associate in the Health Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and participant in NBER’s Working groups on Social Security and National Security.
  • Editorial Board of the SUNY Press, 2004-
  • Member of the Mont Pellerin Society
  • Director, Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise Systems, State University of New York at Buffalo , 1987-1992
  • The American Economic Association
  • The Western and Atlantic Economic Association
  • The American Law and Economics Association
  • Chair of numerous sessions in past AEA meetings
  • Referee for all major journals.

    International Activities

  • Serving as Honorary Professor, City University of Hong Kong
  • Named Affiliate Professor to the University of Haifa, Israel, by the President and Provost of that university, June 2005.
  • Member of the Board of International Advisors, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, 2005 -
  • Associate Member of the Institute of Policy Analysis of the University of Toronto 1992-.
  • Frequent Visiting Professor at Universite D’Orleans, Institut D'Etudes des Sciences Politiques, Paris, and Universite Pantheon-Assa (Paris II), France
  • Board of Academic Advisors, Hong Kong Center of Economic Research, Hong Kong University 1992-.
  • Visiting Professor, Coordinator of the Department of Economics, Chair of the Personnel Committee in the School of Business and Management, and founder of the Economic development Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1992-1994).
  • Member of the Hong Kong Government's Health Services Committee, and of the Expert Subcommittee on Government Grants and Awards (1993-1994)  by appointment from Secretary Elizabeth Wong in Governor Christopher Patton’s Administration.