Alumni Profiles

Alexander Klein is a Lecturer at the University of Kent's School of Economics in Canterbury, UK. He joined CERGE-EI's 1999 entry cohort and defended his thesis in 2006, titled "Internal Migration in Bohemia at the Turn of the 20th Century". After completing his dissertation, he began the first of two post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Warwick in the UK. In 2010, he accepted his current position at the University of Kent.

His recent publications include "When and why did eastern European economies begin to fail? Lessons from a Czechoslovak/UK productivity comparison, 1921–1991" in Explorations in Economic History and "Did Children's Education Matter? Family Migration as a Mechanism of Human Capital Investment. Evidence from Nineteenth Century Bohemia" in The Economic History Review.