Hoyt Bleakley

About

Hoyt Bleakley is an economic historian and professor of economics at the University of Michigan. He was previously a senior investigator at the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago. Bleakley works on health, human capital, intergenerational mobility, and regional economics. His recent projects involve modeling the comparative development of regions in the antebellum United States and  tracking three generations in the nineteenth-century US South to follow up on participants in a large land lottery in Georgia. He has also investigated the impact of historical disease eradication efforts on economic performance in the United States and in Latin America.