Background
Kelley, Allen Charles was born on September 5, 1937 in Everett, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Charles Edward and Velma L. (Allen) Kelley.
Kelley, Allen Charles was born on September 5, 1937 in Everett, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Charles Edward and Velma L. (Allen) Kelley.
Student, Linfield College, 1957. AB, Stanford University, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1964.
Visiting research fellow Australian National University, 1962-1963. Consultant Rand Corporation, 1962-1967. Acting assistant professor Stanford University, 1963-1964.
Faculty University Wisconsin, Madison, 1964-1972, professor, 1970-1972. Professor economics Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1972-1981, James B. Duke professor, since 1981, chairman department, 1973-1980. Associate director Center for Demographic Studies, since 1973.
Visiting professor Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1970-1971. Esmee Fairbairn research professor Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1978. Research scholar International Institute Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1979.
Author: (with J.G. Williamson and R.J. Cheetham) Dualistic Economic Development, 1972, (with B.A. Weisbrod et al. ) Disease and Economic Development, (with J.G. Williamson) Lessons from Japanese Development - An Analytical Economic History, 1974, The Professor's Guide to Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, 1975, (with R.M. Schmidt) The User's Guide to Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, 1975, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Program Manual, 1976, (with J.G. Williamson) Modeling Urbanization and Economic Growth, 1980, (with A. Khalifa and Mechanical Engineering El-Khorazaty) Population and Development in Rural Egypt, 1982. Member editorial board Journal Economic Edn, since 1973.
Contributor articles, reviews to professional journals.
My research has been about equally divided among three fields: economic development, economic demography, and economic education. The focus of the research in economic development has been the construction of computable general equilibrium models of the economy. Simulations of the modelled economy are then compared with reality and if the resulting empirical paradigm passes tests of validation, it is used to analyse the sources of economic growth.
Some of the studies have dealt with specific countries (Meiji Japan). Some have highlighted particular facets of develop-
merit (Third-World urbanisation). And some have examined the development process in general (a ‘Representative Developing Economy’).
The general theme of this research is that models of development in which prices are endogenous are likely to give a much more realistic representation of economic development than the planning models so common in the literature.
Member American Economic Association (chairman committee economic education since 1978), Southern Economic Association (vice president 1981-1982), International Union for Science Study Population, Population Association American, Joint Council on Economic Education (trustee since 1978, executive committee since 1978), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Patty Ann Cochran, June 20, 1959. Children: Brian Allen, Mark Andrew, Michael Charles.