Curriculum Vitae

John Luke Gallup

1434 SE Rhine Street, Portland, Oregon 97202
Tel: 971-267-4352 email: jlgallup@pdx.edu web: www.pdx.edu/econ/jlgallup

EDUCATION

1994 PhD in Economics, University of California at Berkeley.
Committee: Ronald Lee, Daniel McFadden (Nobel Prize winner), Pranab Bardhan, Alain deJanvrie
1990 MA in Demography, University of California at Berkeley.
1985 BA in Economics & Political Science, Swarthmore College. (High Honors)

WORK EXPERIENCE

2018-

Director, Northwest Economic Research Center, Portland State University.  

2013-

Associate Professor of Economics, Portland State University.  

2017-2018

Vice-Chair, Department of Economics, Portland State University.  

2016

Visiting Researcher, Toulouse School of Economics

2010-2015

Director of Graduate Program, Department of Economics, Portland State University.

2009-2013

Assistant Professor of Economics, Portland State University.

2008-2009

Fulbright Scholar, University of Commerce, Hanoi, Vietnam.

2000-2008

Independent consultant, Biddeford, ME.

1998-2000

Research Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard University.

1996-2000

Lecturer, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

1996-2000

Institute Associate (tenure-track), Harvard Institute of International Development, Harvard University.

1994-1995

World Bank Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institutes of Economics and Sociology, Hanoi, Vietnam.

1989-1991

Consultant to International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland.

1986-1987

Research assistant, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

1985-1986

Research Assistant to the Country Economists for Haiti and Panama,World Bank, Washington, DC, Haiti, and Panama.

1983-1984

Research assistant for study of West African deforestation, Energy/Development International, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.


HONORS AND AWARDS

2018

Keynote speaker, 11th Meeting of Bolivian Economists

2008-2009

Fulbright Scholar in Vietnam

2004

Article chosen for inclusion in Leading Issues in International Development

1998-2000

Editor, Harvard HIID/CID Research Review

1994-1995

World Bank McNamara Post-Doctoral Fellowship

1993

Mellon Foundation Research Grant

1989-91

National Research Service Award, Public Health Service

1988

MacArthur Foundation Research Fellow

1980

Carnegie Hero Medal

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Consultant:

World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, International Labour Office, Asian Development Bank, USAID, Government of Vietnam, Government of Bolivia

Languages:

Vietnamese, French, Spanish (I work in each of these languages).

Referee: 

American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, PLoS Medicine, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Political Science Review, Journal of Development Economics, World Bank Economic Review, Journal of Economic Growth, World Development, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Stata Journal, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Economics Letters, Journal of Economic Geography, Ecological Economics, Review of Development Economics, Demography, Mathematical Population Review, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Economics of Education Review, International Regional Science Review, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Health Policy and Planning, Tropical Medicine & International Health, Health Policy, Journal of Comparative Politics, Operations Research and Decisions, International Journal of Manpower. 

OTHER INTERESTS

Designing and building houses, Vietnam, mountains, international politics.

PUBLISHED RESEARCH PAPERS AND BOOKS

2020.   “Added-variable plots for panel-data estimation,” Stata Journal 20(1):30-50, doi:10.1177/1536867X20909689.

2019.   “Added-variable plots with confidence intervals,” Stata Journal 19(3):598–614 doi:10.1177/1536867X19874236.

2019.   “Grade Functions,” Stata Journal 19(2):459–476, doi:10.1177/1536867X19854020.

2018.   “New Perspective on Inequality in Vietnam: Using Copulas to Decompose Urban-Rural Living Standards,” (with Trinh Thi Huong, Le Van Tuan and Michel Simioni) Journal of Mathematical Applications, 15(1):43-50.

2018.   “Testing the Tourism-Led Growth Hypothesis in Laos,” (with Phouphet Kyophilavong, Teerawat Charoenrat and Kenji Nozaki) Tourism Review, 73(2):242-251. doi:10.1108/TR-03-2017-0034.

2016.   “Medical Students Need a Core English Curriculum Based on CEFR,” Asian Journal of Educational Research, 4(5):14-23.

2013.   “The Economic Cost of Distance: Far-flung Europe,” International Journal of Applied Economics and Econometrics, 21(2):161-182. Also in The Macroeconomic Situation of the Outermost Regions.  Brussels: European Union Committee of Regions.  Only non-European author commissioned for study.

2012.  “A Programmer’s Command to Build Formatted Statistical Tables,” Stata Journal, 12(4):655-673.

2012.   “A New System for Formatting Estimation Tables,” Stata Journal, 12(1):3-28.

2004.   “The Wage Labor Market and Inequality in Vietnam in the 1990s,” in Glewwe, Paul, David Dollar, and Nisha Agrawal, eds. Economic Growth and Household Welfare: Policy Lessons from Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.

2003.  Is Geography Destiny? Lessons from Latin America (with Eduardo Lora and Alejandro Gaviria). Palo Alto: Stanford University Press.  Reviewed favorably in Journal of Economic Literature, Foreign Affairs, Choice, Progress in Human Geography, Latin American Development Review, International Affairs, and by Jared Diamond (author of Guns, Germs, and Steel), and Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy.

2001a.             “The Economic Burden of Malaria,”(with Jeffrey Sachs) American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 64(1-2):85-96. Cited in The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, in Acemoglu's Introduction to Economic Growth; in Weil's  Economic Growth; in  Perkins, Radelet, and Lindauer's Economics of Development; and in Todaro and Smith's Economic Development.

2001b.             “The Geography of Poverty and Wealth,” (with Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Mellinger) Scientific American, 284(3, March): 62-67.

2000a.             “Agriculture, Climate, and Technology: Why are the Tropics Falling Behind?” (with Jeffrey Sachs) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 82(3):731-737.  Selected for inclusion in Meier and Rauch's Leading Issues in Economic Development.

2000b. “Geography and Socioeconomic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Chapter 3 of Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 1999-2000 Report.  Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank.

2000c.             “Climate, Coastal Proximity, and Development,” (with Andrew Mellinger and Jeffrey Sachs) in Clark, Gordon L., Maryann P. Feldman, and Meric S. Gertler, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, 169-194.  Cited in Weil, Economic Growth.

2000d. “Update to Formatting Regression Output,” Stata Technical Bulletin 58:9-13. (This has been the most popular user-created software routine for Stata statistical software.)

1999a.             “Geography and Economic Development”(with Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew D. Mellinger) in Pleskovic, Boris, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics 1998. Washington, DC: The World Bank, pp. 127-178.  Reprinted in International Regional Science Review, 22(2): 179-232.  Cited in Handbook of Economic Growth; Barro and Xala-i-Martin's Economic Growth, 2nd Ed.;Weil's Economic Growth; Perkins, Radelet, and Lindauer's Economics of Development; and in Todaro and Smith's Economic Development.

1999b.             “Health and Wealth: How Geography Influences Socioeconomic Development,”(with Jeffrey D. Sachs) DRCLAS News, Fall, pp. 7-10.

1999c.             “Revision of Outreg,” Stata Technical Bulletin 49:25.

1999d.             “The Economic Value of Children in Vietnam,” presented at the 1999 Association of Asian Studies Meetings, Boston.

1998a.             “Economic Growth and the Income of the Poor,”(with Steve Radelet and Andrew Warner) CAER Discussion Paper 36, Harvard Institute for International Development.

1998b.             “Agricultural Productivity and Geography,” presented at 1998 American Economics Association Meetings, Chicago. Cited in Weil, Economic Growth.

1998c.             “Poverty and the Demographic Transition,” presented at the Conference on Economic Aspects of Demographic Transition: The Experience of Asian Pacific Countries, Taipei, Taiwan, June 19-20, 1998.

1998d.             “Formatting Regression Output for Published Tables,” Stata Technical Bulletin 46:28-30.

1997a.             “Estimates of Coastal Populations,” (with Joel E. Cohen, Christopher Small, Andrew Mellinger, and Jeffrey D. Sachs) Science Vol. 278, No. 5340 (Nov. 14, 1997):1211-1212.

1997b.             “Environment, Poverty, and Population,” (with David Bloom) background paper for the Asian Development Bank’s Emerging Asia: Changes and Challenges.

1997c.             “Ethnicity and Earnings in Malaysia,” HIID Development Discussion Paper No. 593.

1997d.             “Theories of Migration,” HIID Development Discussion Paper No. 569. Cited in Todaro and Smith's Economic Development.

1996.   “Migration in Malaysia: Heterogeneity and Persistence,” unpublished manuscript, Institute of Sociology, Hanoi.

1994.   Heterogeneity, Persistence, and Ethnicity: Internal Migration and Labor Markets in Malaysia, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley.

1993.   “TM2: An Economic-Demographic Simulation Model,” (with Landis MacKellar) World Employment Program Working Paper, International Labor Office.

1990.   “The Effect of Cohort Size on Wages in Brazil,” presented at 1990 Population Association of America Meetings, Toronto.