Sherwin Rosen
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Sherwin Rosen was an American
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 labor economist
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. He had ties with many American universities and academic institutions including the University of Chicago
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, the University of Rochester
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, Stanford University
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 and its Hoover Institution
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. At the time of his death, Rosen was Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago
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 and president of the American Economic Association
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.

Rosen received his B.S. in economics from Purdue University
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 in 1960, his A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago
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 in 1962 and 1966 respectively.

He was chair of the Economics department at the University of Chicago
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 and colleague to an impressive range of celebrated economists including friend Gary S. Becker. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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 in 1997.

Rosen died at the Bernard Mitchell Hospital on March 17, 2001 at the age of 62.

External links

  • Obituary posted at the University of Chicago website.
  • Lazear, Edward P. (2003). "Sherwin Rosen," Biographical Memoirs, Vol. 83 (National Academies Press, 2003), pp. 176–195. ISBN 030908699X. Online versioni retrieved January 13, 2007.
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