Charles Becker, President of the Economics Institute, simultaneously holds positions as an adjunct associate professor in the Economics Department of the University of Colorado and as a research associate in the Population Program of the Institute for Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado. A specialist on labor market and urban issues in Africa and other developing countries, he has constructed computable general models for India and South Africa, and has done important work on the demo-economic impact of the spread of AIDS in Africa.
