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Charles Maxwell Becker is a Research Professor of Economics at Duke University's Department of Economics. His research interests include economic demography, social security system forecasting, computable general equilibrium modeling, and urban economics. Becker has worked on projects related to infant mortality rates, poverty in developing countries, and the performance of minority students in Economics doctoral programs. He has collaborated on various studies, including analyses of disability risk in Russia and social security reform in Kazakhstan. Becker is also an affiliate of the Duke Center for International Development.