American economist
Francine Dee Blau (born August 29, 1946 in
New York City )
[2] is an American
economist and professor of economics as well as Industrial and Labor Relations at
Cornell University . In 2010, Blau was the first woman to receive the
IZA Prize in Labor Economics for her "seminal contributions to the economic analysis of labor market inequality."
[3] She was awarded the 2017
Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor Economists in recognition of lifetime of contributions to the field of labor economics.
[4]
Personal life and education
Blau was born to parents Harold Raymond Blau and Sylvia Blau, née Goldberg, in New York City. Her parents divorced when she was six years old. She and her brother lived with their mother until Sylvia Blau became ill. After that, the children went to live with their father. Harold Blau supported Francine's wish to become an economist.
[2]
Blau graduated from
Forest Hills High School 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.
[2]
Blau is married to
Lawrence M. Kahn , also an economics professor at
Cornell University .
[5] Together they have two children.
[2]
Career
Blau is currently the
Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics at
Cornell University .
[5]
[6] 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 .
[7]
Blau is a research associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research ,
[8] a research fellow at the
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
[9] and a research fellow at the
Center for Economic Studies .
[10] 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 .
[11] 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 ).
[11]
She has served as vice president of the
American Economic Association , president of the Society of Labor Economists,
[5] the
Labor and Employment Relations Association , and the Midwest Economics Association.
[7] She is an Associate Editor of
Labour Economics and was formerly an editor of the
Journal of Labor Economics and an Associate Editor of the
Journal of Economic Perspectives .
[11] She serves or has served on numerous Editorial Boards, including the
American Economic Review , the
Journal of Labor Economics , the
Journal of Economic Perspectives , the
ILR Review , the
Journal of Labor Research , and
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , among others.
[11]
[12]
Awards
2001 The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, awarded by the
American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession for furthering the status of women in the economics profession.
[13]
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).
[14]
2003 Fellow (Founding Fellow), Society of Labor Economists.
[15]
2005 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science.
[16]
2009 Academic Fellow (Inaugural Fellow), Labor and Employment Relations Association.
[15]
2010 IZA Prize in Labor Economics
[17]
2017 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics by the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE).
[4]
2017 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award, ILR School, Cornell University.
[18]
2018 Distinguished Fellow Award, American Economic Association.
[19]
[20]
Selected publications
Books
Blau, Francine D. (1977).
Equal Pay in the Office. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books.
ISBN
978-0-669-01003-9 .
Blau, Francine D.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. (eds.) (1997).
Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
ISBN
978-0-87154-122-2 .
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. (2002).
At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
ISBN
978-0-87154-100-0 .
Eds. Blau, Francine D.; Brinton, Mary C.; Grusky, David B. (2006).
The Declining Significance of Gender? New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
ISBN
978-0-87154-092-8 .
Blau, Francine D.; Eds. Anne C. Gielen, and Klaus F. Zimmermann (2012).
Gender, Inequality, and Wages. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19966-585-3 .
Eds. Blau, Francine D. and Christopher Mackie (2017).
The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
ISBN
978-0-309-44445-3 .
Blau, Francine D.; Winkler, Anne E. (2018).
The Economics of Women, Men, and Work (8th ed.). Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780190620851 .
Blau, Francine D.;
Ferber, Marianne A. The Economics of Women, Men, and Work . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1st ed. 1986, 2nd ed. 1992.
Blau, Francine D.; Ferber, Marianne A.; Winkler, Anne E. The Economics of Women, Men, and Work . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 3rd ed. 1998, 4th ed. 2002, 5th ed. 2006, 6th ed. 2010, 7th ed. 2014.
References
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"Francine Blau, Distinguished Fellow 2018" . American Economic Association . Retrieved 2019-02-08 .
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d Cicarelli, James and Julianne Cicarelli.
Distinguished women economists . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003, pp. 36–40,
ISBN
978-0-313-30331-9 .
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IZA Press Statement.
IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Francine D. Blau .
Archived 2012-05-14 at the
Wayback Machine September 30, 2010.
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"2017 Mincer Prize" . www.sole-jole.org . Retrieved 2018-02-07 .
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c Catt, Mary (Sep 30, 2010).
"Francine Blau receives top labor economics award" . Chronicle Online,
Cornell University .
^ Cornell University ILR School.
Francine D. Blau . Retrieved on May 1, 2011.
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b Blaug, Mark and Howard R. Vane.
Who's who in economics'. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub., 2003,
ISBN
978-1-84376-857-9 .
^ National Bureau of Economic Research.
Francine D. Blau . Retrieved on May 1, 2011.
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"IZA - Francine D. Blau" . legacy.iza.org . Retrieved 2018-02-07 .
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"CESifo Group Munich - CESifo Research Network Members" . www.cesifo-group.de . Retrieved 2018-02-07 .
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"Curriculum vitae – Francine D. Blau" (PDF) . www.ilr.cornell.edu. July 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
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"Francine Blau | The ILR School | Cornell University" . www.ilr.cornell.edu . Retrieved 2018-02-07 .
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"» Professor Rachel McCulloch wins Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Division of Social Sciences" . Retrieved 2019-10-16 .
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"The Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics | Industrial Relations Section" . irs.princeton.edu . Retrieved 2018-02-08 .
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"Francine Blau" .
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"Francine D.Blau" . The American Academy of Political & Social Science . 7 July 2016. Retrieved 2020-11-29 .
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"Francine Blau receives top labor economics award" . Cornell Chronicle . Retrieved 2019-10-16 .
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"2017 Groat and Alpern Awards" . The ILR School | Cornell University . 27 September 2016. Retrieved 2018-02-07 .
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"Distinguished Fellows" . American Economic Association . Retrieved 2019-02-08 .
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"Francine Blau, Distinguished Fellow 2018" . American Economic Association . Retrieved 2019-02-08 .
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