Oded Stark (12 June 1944 – 8 August 2026) was a Polish economist and academic who was a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Distinguished Professor at the University of Warsaw, and adjunct professor at the University of Tuebingen.
Life and career Oded Stark was born in Palestine on 12 June 1944, to Polish parents. Over the course of his career, Oded Stark held the Chair in Economic and Regional Policy at the University of Klagenfurt, the Chair in Development Economics at the University of Oslo, and worked as Professor of Population and Economics as well as the Director of the Migration and Development Programme at Harvard University, as Honorary University Professor of Economics at the University of Vienna, and as Distinguished Research Scholar at Georgetown University. As of 2019, he worked as Distinguished Professor at the University of Warsaw, adjunct professor at the University of Tübingen, and as Distinguished Fellow at the University of Bonn's Center for Development Research. Stark is a co-editor of the Handbook of Population and Family Economics (with Mark Rosenzweig).Rosenzweig, M.R., Stark, O. (1997, eds.). Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Stark died on 8 August 2026, at the age of 82.
Research Stark's research interests included applied microeconomic theory, development economics, population economics, the economics of migration, and labour economics.Profile of Oded Stark on the website of IZA. Retrieved July 14th, 2019.
Awards and honours Stark received an honorary doctorate from the University of Warsaw. He is a Humboldt Fellow, has a lifetime achievement award from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland, and is a Presidential Professor of Economics in Poland.
Bibliography (selected) Stark, O. (1993). The Migration of Labor. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.Reviews of The Migration of Labor: Charles M. Becker, Contemporary Sociology, , Barry R. Chiswick, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Heiko Korner, International Migration Review, John Lodewijks, Pacific Viewpoint, Alaric Maude, Journal of the Australian Population Association, Ian Molho, The Economic Journal, , Muhammad G. Quibria, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Michael P. Todaro, Population and Development Review, , Rosenzweig, Mark R. & Stark, O., eds. Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Elsevier, 1997.Reviews of Handbook of Population and Family Economics: Dora Costa, The Journal of Economic History, Hugh Davies, Population Studies, Mark Perlman, Population and Development Review, , Robert A. Pollak, Journal of Economic Literature, Jacques Siegers, European Journal of Population, Robert E. Wright, The Economic Journal, Stark, O. (1999). Altruism and Beyond: An Economic Analysis of Transfers and Exchanges Within Families and Groups. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Reviews of Altruism and Beyond: Nicholas Bardsley, Economica, David Collard, The Economic Journal, , Duran Bell, American Anthropologist, Nancy Folbre, Population Studies, Wulf Gaertner, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, John Hoddinott, Journal of Economic Literature, ; Simone Manganelli, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, Michael P. Todaro, Population and Development Review, , James A. Wilde, Southern Economic Journal, ,
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