Life
Selma Fine was born inPersonal life
Fine was married to Raymond W. Goldsmith, Professor of Economics at Yale University.Recognition
Goldsmith won the Distinguished Service Award of the Department of Commerce in 1955, and a Rockefeller public service award in 1956. In 1962, she was elected as aPublished works
* 1939. "The Use of Income Tax Data in the National Resources Committee Estimate of the Distribution of Income by Size," (with Enid Baird), ''Studies in Income and Wealth 3''. * 1950. "Statistical Information on the Distribution of Income by Size," ''American Economic Review'' 40. * 1951. "Appraisal of Basic Data Available for Constructing Income Size Distributions," ''Studies in Income and Wealth 13''. * 1953. "Income Distribution in the United States by Size, 1944–50," (with George Jaszi), Supplement to the ''Survey of Current Business''. * 1954. "Size Distribution of Income Since the Mid-Thirties," (with George Jaszi, Hyman Kaitz, and Maurice Liebenberg), ''Review of Economics and Statistics'' 34. * 1954. "Inequality of Income Distribution—Discussion," ''American Economic Review'' 44. * 1956. "Reply to Dr. Clyman," ''Review of Economics and Statistics'' 38. * 1957. "Changes in the Size Distribution of Income," ''American Economic Review'' 47. * 1958. "Size Distribution of Personal Income," ''Survey of Current Business'' 38. * 1958. "The Relation of Census Income Distribution Statistics to Other Income Data, An Appraisal of the 1950 Census Income Data," ''Studies in Income and Wealth'' 23. * 1960. "Size Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United States," in Arndt, Helmut (ed.), ''Die Konzentration in der Wirtschaft''. * 1962. "Low-Income Families and Measures of Income Inequality," ''Review of Social Economy'' 20.References
Further reading
*Cicarelli, James, and Julianne Cicarelli. ''Distinguished Women Economists''. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003. *Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. "Appraisal of Basic Data Available for Constructing Income Size Distributions." In ''Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume 13'', 373–377. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1951. *Kapuria-Foreman, Vibha. "Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith." In ''A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists'', edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand, and Evelyn L. Forget. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2000. *National Bureau of Economic Research. ''Fifty Years of Economic Measurement: The Jubilee of the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, Studies in Income and Wealth Volume 54'', edited by Ernst R. Berndt and Jack E. Triplett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1990. {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldsmith, Selma Evelyn Fine 1912 births 1962 deaths Cornell University alumni Harvard University alumni American women economists 20th-century American economists American statisticians Women statisticians Fellows of the American Statistical Association