Hazel Kyrk

Hazel Kyrk
Born	1886 Ashley, Ohio
Died	1957 West Dover, Vermont
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Influences	James A. Field

Hazel Kyrk (1886 – 1957) was an American economist.

Hazel Kyrk was born in 1886 in Ashley, Ohio. She was the only child of Elmer Kryk, a drayman, and Jane Kyrk, a homemaker.

She attended Ohio Wesleyan University from 1904 to 1906. She later received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation was published as A Theory of Consumption in (1923).

Kyrk served as principal economist in the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics between 1938 and 1941. While there, she helped create the Bureau's Consumer Purchases Study. It established consumer patterns in five different regions, each subdivided into urban, village, and farm divisions. The study determined the base prices for the cost-of-living index.

In 1943 Kyrk was appointed as chair of the Consumer Advisory Committee to the Office of Price Administration. She argued for better standards in consumer goods and urged a slower rate of price decontrol.

Hazel Kyrk died in 1957 West Dover, Vermont.

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