Scholarship and Biography

A specialist in the Chinese economy, Gary Jefferson's research interests include economic development and the economics of innovation with special focus on the economy of China. Jefferson has published extensively, often with research colleagues in China, on topics including industrial productivity growth, enterprise restructuring, R&D and patenting, FDI spillovers, and China's research institute sector. His current research focuses on theory relating to technical change and the interaction between labor and physical augmenting change. Jefferson is a current or recent editor and advisor to several journals, including Chinese Economic Review, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship, Comparative Economic Studies, Fudan University Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Honors

Teaching Fellowship, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dartmouth College (United States, Hanover), 1966-1968
Scholarship to China
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 1986-1987
US-China Cooperative Science Program Award
National Science Foundation (United States, Arlington) - NSF, 1988
Committee on Scholarly Communication with People's Republic of China
National Academy of Sciences (United States, Washington D.C.) - NAS, 1988
Award for Collaborative Research with Chinese Academy of Social Science
Ford Foundation (United States, New York), 1988
Research Grant Award
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, 1988-1989
United States-China Cooperative Research Program Award
Henry Luce Foundation (United States, New York), 1994-1995
Fellowship
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (Taiwan, Taipei) - CCKF, 1994-1995
Fellowship
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, 1994-1995
Honory Professor, Institute for Economic Development, School of Economics and Management
Wuhan University (China, Wuhan) - WHU, 2007
Honorary Professor, Center for Economic Development Research, School of Economics and Management
Wuhan University (China, Wuhan) - WHU, 2007
Grant: "The Channels of Foreign Influence on the Innovation and Diffusion of Technology in China: Implications for Energy Use and Carbon Emissions" (administered trough Penn State)
United States Department of Energy (United States, Washington), 2012-2016
Best Paper Award, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies
Chinese Economic Association (UK/Europe), 2014
Jiang Xuemo Visiting Lecturer
Fudan University (China, Shanghai), 2014

Organizational Affiliations

Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance, Emeritus, Department of Economics, Brandeis University

Education

Yale University
Ph.D.
London School of Economics and Political Science
M.S.
Tufts University
M.A.
Dartmouth College
B.A.