Francine D. Blau
| Francine D. Blau | |
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| Born |
August 29, 1946 New York City, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution |
NBER (1989–present) Cornell University (1994–present) |
| Field | Labor economics |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University (B.S.) Harvard University (M.A., Ph.D.) |
| Contributions | Research on labor market inequality |
| Awards | IZA Prize in Labor Economics (2010) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Francine Dee Blau (born August 29, 1946 in New York City) is an American economist and professor of economics at Cornell University. In 2010 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."
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.
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.
Blau is married to Lawrence M. Kahn, also an economics professor at Cornell University. Together they have two children.
Blau is currently the Frances Perkins 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.
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