In the News:
- Pörtner Pens New Research on the Impacts of COVID-19 Lockdown on Healthcare Inaccessibility and Unaffordability in Uganda (08/30/2023)
- Pörtner Publication on Birth Spacing and Sex-Selective Abortions in India Now Available (11/19/2021)
- Claus Pörtner Examines Child Health in India by Place of Residence (03/05/2018)
- CSDE at PAA 2017 (04/18/2017)
In 2011, Claus C Pörtner joined Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Econmics as an Assistant Professor of Economics. He previously worked at the University of Washington, Brown University, Georgetown University, and worked as a consultant for the World Bank in Washington, DC, and Ghana. His research interests include household and population economics, development, and labor. He has published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Population Economics, and Journal of African Economies. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses focusing mainly on development and population issues.