Francine Dee Blau (born August 29, 1946 in

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)Cicarelli, James and Julianne Cicarelli
''Distinguished women economists''.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003, pp. 36–40, . is an American

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and professor of economics as well as Industrial and Labor Relations at

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. In 2010, Blau was the first woman to receive the

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for her "seminal contributions to the economic analysis of labor market inequality." IZA Press Statement
''IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Francine D. Blau''.
September 30, 2010. She was awarded the 2017

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by the Society of Labor Economists in recognition of lifetime of contributions to the field of labor economics.

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. Blau graduated from Forest Hills High School in

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in 1963, after which she entered

and received her

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in industrial and labor relations in 1966. She received her

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from

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in 1969 and her

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in economics from the same university in 1975. Blau is married to

Lawrence M. Kahn Lawrence M. Kahn (born 1950) is the Braunstein Family Professor and Professor of Economics at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Education Kahn received his B.A. with High Honors and High Distinction in mathematics ...

, also an economics professor at

. Together they have two children.

Career

Blau is currently the

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Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics at

.Cornell University ILR School
''Francine D. Blau''.
Retrieved on May 1, 2011. Before coming to Cornell in 1994, she was an assistant, associate, and professor of

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and Labor and Industrial Relations at the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

where she joined the faculty in 1975. Prior to that, she was a research associate at

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and a visiting lecturer at

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.Blaug, Mark and Howard R. Vane
''Who's who in economics'.
Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub., 2003, . Blau is a research associate at the

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, a research fellow at the

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(IZA), and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Studies. She is a fellow of th
Society of Labor Economists
the

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, and the

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. She is also a fellow at the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (

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) and a research fellow at the Compensation Research Initiative (

). She has served as vice president of the

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, president of the Society of Labor Economists, the

, and th
Midwest Economics Association
She is an Associate Editor of Labour Economics and was formerly an editor of the

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and an Associate Editor of the

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. She serves or has served on numerous Editorial Boards, including the

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, the

, the ILR Review, the

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, and

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, among others.

Awards

* 2001 The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, awarded by the

Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession for furthering the status of women in the economics profession. * 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). * 2003 Fellow (Founding Fellow), Society of Labor Economists. * 2005 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science. * 2009 Academic Fellow (Inaugural Fellow), Labor and Employment Relations Association. * 2010 IZA Prize in Labor Economics * 2017 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics by the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE). * 2017 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award, ILR School, Cornell University. * 2018 Distinguished Fellow Award, American Economic Association.

Selected publications

Books

* Blau, Francine D. (1977)
''Equal Pay in the Office.''
Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books. . * Blau, Francine D.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. (eds.) (1997).
Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace.
' New York: Russell Sage Foundation. . * Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. (2002).
At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective.
' New York: Russell Sage Foundation. . * Eds. Blau, Francine D.; Brinton, Mary C.; Grusky, David B. (2006).
The Declining Significance of Gender?
' New York: Russell Sage Foundation. . * Blau, Francine D.; Eds. Anne C. Gielen, and Klaus F. Zimmermann (2012)
''Gender, Inequality, and Wages.''
Oxford University Press. . * Eds. Blau, Francine D. and Christopher Mackie (2017)
''The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration''.
Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. . * ** 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

External links

''Curriculum Vitae Francine D. Blau''
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