KAIN, John F(orrest) 1935-2003

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See index for CA sketch: Born November 9, 1935, in Fort Wayne, IN; died of cancer August 4, 2003, in Dallas, TX. Economist, educator, and author. Kain was a respected professor of economics and African-American studies. He completed his undergraduate work at Bowling Green State University in 1957, and then went on to earn his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley in 1961. For the next year, he worked as a researcher for the RAND Corp., and then taught economics at the U.S. Air Force Academy from 1962 to 1964. This was followed by a stint at the London School of Economics before he joined the faculty at Harvard University in 1967 as director of the program on regional and urban economics. Kain remained at Harvard for most of his career, becoming a full professor in 1969 and serving as chair of the department of city planning from 1975 to 1981. In 1991 he was named Henry Lee Professor of Economics, a position he held until leaving Harvard in 1997 to become professor of economics and director of the Cecil and Ida Green Center at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Texas in Dallas. He was professor emeritus there at the time of his death. During his career, Kain also served as a senior staff member for the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge from 1967 to 1972, and he was an associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics. He was the author or editor of several books, including Race and Poverty: The Economics of Discrimination (1969), Essays on Urban Spatial Structure (1975), Housing and Neighborhood Dynamics: A Simulation Study (1985), and Increasing the Productivity of the Nation's Urban Transportation Infrastructure (1992).

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Chronicle of Higher Education, September 5, 2003, p. A61.