Jeffrey Stuart Hammer (born November 3, 1953) is a health and development economist. Hammer was the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Economic Development at the

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. His primary research focus is the economics of health policy and health service provision in poor countries. He was on the core team of the 2004

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“Making Services Work for Poor People,” alongside

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, Shanta Devarajan, and other notable economists. He is currently a senior non-resident scholar at the

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in Delhi, and Director of th
One Hundred Homes
project.

Education and career

Hammer earned a B.A. in economics from

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and his PhD in economics from the

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where he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Before Princeton he worked at

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for 25 years, the last three years in the New Delhi office.

References

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