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The UW Women in Economics group is pleased to welcome Marjorie McElroy, Professor of Economics at Duke University, to campus next month for a discussion stemming from her work as Chair of the American Economics Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (CSWEP). The seminar will emphasize professional development and networking opportunities for women in the field.
Women in Economics Spring Seminar
Professor Marjorie McElroy Friday, May 23, 2014 3:30 - 4:30 p.m., HUB 214 (map)
Free and open to anyone interested - current students are welcome!
About Dr. Marjorie McElroy
- An elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, her current research focuses on empirical work in economics of the family and applied micro-econometric methods. Her work covers a range of economic fields.
- Best know for her foundational work on bargaining models of household decisions, previous work ranges from structural estimation of co-residence decisions, estimating systems of demand and supply equations, estimating arbitrage pricing models, and measures of fit for systems of equations.
- The recipient of five NSF grants, she has served on the NSF SES Review Panel and was the PI on the NSF grant that seeded the Triangle Census Research Data Center.
- Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors of the NBER and on its Executive Committee. In the past she was elected and served both as Vice President of the AEA and as a member of the AEA Executive Committee. She has also served as Vice President and President of the Southern Economic Association as well as on that Board.
- Since receiving her Ph.D. from Northwestern, Professor McElroy has held visiting positions at the University of Virginia, the University of Illinois, and the University of Chicago where she was also a Post Doctoral Fellow. The remainder of her career has been at Duke.