Ronald G. Ehrenberg
| Ronald G. Ehrenberg | |
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| Born |
April 20, 1946 New York, NY |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution |
Loyola University University of Massachusetts - Amherst Cornell University |
| Field | Labor Economics |
| Alma mater |
Binghamton University Northwestern University |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg is an American economist. He has primarily worked in the field of labor economics including the economics of higher education. Currently, he is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University. He is also the founder-director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI).
Ehrenberg received a B.A. in mathematics from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) in 1966, an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1970. After teaching at Loyola University and University of Massachusetts Amherst, he moved to Ithaca in 1975 and spent rest of his professional career at Cornell University.
At Cornell, Ehrenberg is a faculty member in the department of labor economics in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and in the department of economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. He also served as the university's Vice President for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting (1995–1998) and an elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustees (2006–10). In 2005, he was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, the highest award for undergraduate teaching that exists at Cornell.
Ehrenberg's academic contributions have been primarily in the field of labor economics including the economics of higher education. He has authored or edited (sometimes with coauthors) over 30 books and book-length reports. He has published over 160 articles in professional journals including the American Economic Review, Economics of Education Review, Industrial and Labor Relations, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economics Perspectives, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Urban Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Research in Labor Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics.
He has supervised the dissertations of over 45 Ph.D. students and served on the committees of numerous other students.
Ehrenberg has served on numerous editorial boards and has been a consultant to many governmental agencies and commissions and university and private research corporations. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York (SUNY).
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