Francine D. Blau
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Francine Dee Blau is an American
economist
and professor of economics at Cornell University
. Blau was the first woman to receive the prestigious IZA
Prize in Labor Economics for her "seminal contributions to the economic analysis of labor market inequality."
in Queens
in 1963, after which she entered Cornell University
and received her B.S.
in industrial and labor relations in 1966. She received her M.A.
in economics
from Harvard University
in 1969 and her Ph.D.
in economics from the same university in 1975.
Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics at Cornell University
. Before coming to Cornell in 1994, she was an assistant, associate, and professor of Economics
and Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
where she joined the faculty in 1975. Prior to that she was a research associate at Ohio State University
and a visiting lecturer at Yale University
.
, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor
(IZA
), and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Studies
. She is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, the American Academy of Political and Social Science
, and the Labor and Employment Relations Association
. She is also a fellow at the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford University
) and a research fellow at the Compensation Research Initiative (Cornell University
).
, president of the Society of Labor Economists, the Labor and Employment Relations Association
, and the Midwest Economics Association. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Economics
and the Journal of Labor Research
, and was formerly on the editorial board of the American Economic Review
. Moreover, she is currently an associate editor of Labour Economics
and was formerly an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics
. She was also an associate editor and on the advisory board of the Journal of Economic Perspectives
.
. Together they have two children.
United States
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economist
Economist
An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...
and professor of economics at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
. Blau was the first woman to receive the prestigious IZA
Institute for the Study of Labor
The Institute for the Study of Labor is a private, independent economic research institute. It was founded under the legal form of a limited liability company. Its German name is Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit hence the abbreviation IZA...
Prize in Labor Economics for her "seminal contributions to the economic analysis of labor market inequality."
Education
Blau graduated from Forest Hills High SchoolForest Hills High School
Forest Hills High School , dedicated in 1937, is a public secondary school in Queens, New York City. It educates students in grades 9–12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education.- Location :...
in Queens
Queens
Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....
in 1963, after which she entered Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
and received her B.S.
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
in industrial and labor relations in 1966. She received her M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
in economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
in 1969 and her Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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in economics from the same university in 1975.
University career
Blau is currently the Frances PerkinsFrances Perkins
Frances Perkins , born Fannie Coralie Perkins, was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition...
Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
. Before coming to Cornell in 1994, she was an assistant, associate, and professor of Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
and Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
where she joined the faculty in 1975. Prior to that she was a research associate at Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
and a visiting lecturer at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
Current positions
Blau is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic ResearchNational Bureau of Economic Research
The National Bureau of Economic Research is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." The NBER is well known for providing start and end...
, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor
Institute for the Study of Labor
The Institute for the Study of Labor is a private, independent economic research institute. It was founded under the legal form of a limited liability company. Its German name is Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit hence the abbreviation IZA...
(IZA
Iza
Iza is a town located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.*For the village in Slovakia see Iža*For the river in Romania, see Iza River...
), and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Studies
Center for Economic Studies
The Center for Economic Studies is an independent institute within the Faculty of Economics of the University of Munich .It promotes the international exchange of knowledge and ideas in public finance and other areas of economics...
. She is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, the American Academy of Political and Social Science
American Academy of Political and Social Science
The American Academy of Political and Social Science was founded in 1889 to promote progress in the social sciences. Sparked by Professor Edmund J. James and drawing from members of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, and Bryn Mawr College, the Academy sought to...
, and the Labor and Employment Relations Association
Labor and Employment Relations Association
The Labor and Employment Relations Association, founded in 1947, as the Industrial Relations Research Association, is an organization for professionals in industrial relations and human resources. Headquartered at the at the , the national organization has more than 3,000 members...
. She is also a fellow at the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
) and a research fellow at the Compensation Research Initiative (Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
).
Offices and editorships
She has served as vice president of the American Economic AssociationAmerican Economic Association
The American Economic Association, or AEA, is a learned society in the field of economics, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It publishes one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics: the American Economic Review...
, president of the Society of Labor Economists, the Labor and Employment Relations Association
Labor and Employment Relations Association
The Labor and Employment Relations Association, founded in 1947, as the Industrial Relations Research Association, is an organization for professionals in industrial relations and human resources. Headquartered at the at the , the national organization has more than 3,000 members...
, and the Midwest Economics Association. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Economics
Journal of Labor Economics
The Journal of Labor Economics is an academic journal published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press on international research examining issues affecting the economy as well as social and private behavior...
and the Journal of Labor Research
Journal of Labor Research
The Journal of Labor Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes articles regarding labor relations in the United States. Its articles cover the nature of work, labor-management relations, welfare-to-work, flexible employment, labor policy, regulation of labor unions, dispute...
, and was formerly on the editorial board of the American Economic Review
American Economic Review
The American Economic Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics publishing seven issues annually by the American Economic Association. First published in 1911, it is considered one of the most prestigious journals in the field. The current editor-in-chief is Penny Goldberg . The...
. Moreover, she is currently an associate editor of Labour Economics
Labour economics
Labor economics seeks to understand the functioning and dynamics of the market for labor. Labor markets function through the interaction of workers and employers...
and was formerly an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics
Journal of Labor Economics
The Journal of Labor Economics is an academic journal published quarterly by the University of Chicago Press on international research examining issues affecting the economy as well as social and private behavior...
. She was also an associate editor and on the advisory board of the Journal of Economic Perspectives
Journal of Economic Perspectives
The Journal of Economic Perspectives is an economic journal published by the American Economic Association. The journal is very broad in its scope...
.
Personal life
Blau is married to Lawrence Kahn, also an economics professor at Cornell UniversityCornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
. Together they have two children.
Awards
- 1993 Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award for outstanding teaching and research, University of Illinois
- 2001 The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, awarded by the American Economic AssociationAmerican Economic AssociationThe American Economic Association, or AEA, is a learned society in the field of economics, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. It publishes one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics: the American Economic Review...
Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession for furthering the status of women in the economics profession - 2002 Richard A. Lester Prize for the outstanding book in labor economics and industrial relations for At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective (with Lawrence Kahn)
- 2010 IZAInstitute for the Study of LaborThe Institute for the Study of Labor is a private, independent economic research institute. It was founded under the legal form of a limited liability company. Its German name is Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit hence the abbreviation IZA...
Prize in Labor Economics
Books
- Blau, Francine D. Equal Pay in the Office. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1977, ISBN 0669010030.
- Blau, Francine D. and Ronald G. Ehrenberg (editors). Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000, ISBN 978-0-87154-122-2.
- Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn. At home and abroad: U.S. labor-market performance in international perspective. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002, ISBN 978-0-87-15410-00.
- Blau, Francine D., Mary C. Brinton and David B Grusky. The declining significance of gender? New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006, ISBN 978-0-87-15409-28.
- Blau, Francine D., Marianne A. Ferber and Anne E. Winkler. The Economics of Women, Men and Work. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 6th ed. 2010, ISBN 0136084257.
Studies
- Blau, Francine D. (1984). The Use of Transfer Payments by Immigrants. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 222-239.
- Blau, Francine D. and John W. Graham (1990). Black-White Differences in Wealth and Asset Composition. Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 105, No. 2, pp. 321-339.
- Blau, Francine D. and Marianne A. Ferber (1991). Career Plans and Expectations of Young Women and Men: The Earnings Gap and Labor Force Participation. Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 581-607.
- Blau, Francine D. and Andrea Beller (1992). Black-White Earnings Over the 1970s and 1980s: Gender Differences in Trends. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol 74, No. 2, pp. 276-286.
- Blau, Francine D. and Adam Grossberg (1992). Maternal Labor Supply and Children’s Cognitive Development. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 474-481.
- Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn (1996). International Differences in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions versus Market Forces. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 104, No. 4, pp. 791-837.
- Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn (1996). Wage Structure and Gender Earnings Differentials: An International Comparison. Economica, Vol. 63, No. 250, pp. 29-62.
- Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn (1997). Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in the 1980s. Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 15, No. 1, Part 1, pp. 1-42.
- Blau, Francine D. (1998). Trends in the Well-Being of American Women, 1970–1995. Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 112-165.
- Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn (2000). Gender Differences in Pay. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 75-99.
- Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn (2003). Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap. Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 106-144.
- Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn (2005). Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher U.S. Wage Inequality? Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 184-193.
- Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn (2006). The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence. Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 45-66.
- Blau, Francine D. and Lawrence M. Kahn (2007). Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000. Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 25, pp. 393-438.
- Blau, Francine D., Janet M. Curie, Rachel T.A. Croson, and Donna K. Ginther (2010). Can Mentoring Help Female Assistant Professors? Interim Results from a Randomized Trial. American Economic Review, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 348-352.
- Blau, Francine D., Lawrence M. Kahn and Kerry Papps (2011). Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 43-58.
External links
- IZAInstitute for the Study of LaborThe Institute for the Study of Labor is a private, independent economic research institute. It was founded under the legal form of a limited liability company. Its German name is Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit hence the abbreviation IZA...
award statement. 2010 Prize Winner Francine D. Blau. - National Bureau of Economic ResearchNational Bureau of Economic ResearchThe National Bureau of Economic Research is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." The NBER is well known for providing start and end...
. Curriculum Vitae Francine D. Blau. - Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
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