Barbara Fraumeni

Barbara Morry Fraumeni
Citizenship United States
Alma mater Wellesley College
Boston College
Awards Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2006
Gold Medal of the U.S. Department of Commerce, 2006
Scientific career
Fields Economics
Institutions Wellesley College
Tufts University
Northeastern University
University of Southern Maine
Influences Carolyn Shaw Bell
Dale W. Jorgenson
Website https://usm.maine.edu/policy-planning-management/barbara-fraumeni

Barbara Morry Fraumeni is a special-term Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics and Hunan University in China, Professor Emerita of Public Policy at the Muskie in the School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, United States.[1] She is an authority on human capital (World Bank, UN, and OECD) and nonhuman capital, economic growth, productivity, and non-market accounts. She is a former program officer with the National Science Foundation and Chief Economist at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. While serving as Chief Economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, she was part of a team responsible for modifying the National Accounts to treat Research and Development as an investment and assess its contribution to economic growth.

Early life and education

Fraumeni attended Wellesley College graduating in 1972 with a degree in economics and going on to earn a Ph.D in economics from Boston College.[2]

She rowed in the first U.S. women’s national championship in 1966 and subsequently won 5 national lightweight sculling titles: singles dash, doubles, and quad, between 1967 and 1969.[2][3] She retired from rowing in 1969 after traveling to Europe as an alternate on the first U.S. women’s national team.[4]

Awards

For her work as Chief Economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the U.S. Department of Commerce awarded her its highest honor (the Gold Medal) in November 2006.[5] Also in 2006 she received the Carolyn Shaw Bell award of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. This award is given annually to a person who has furthered the status of women in the economics professions.[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "IZA World of Labor - Barbara M. Fraumeni". wol.iza.org. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  2. 1 2 "Barbara Morry Fraumeni '72". Wellesley. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  3. ↑ "Wellesley". Wellesley. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  4. ↑ "The Girl in the Boat | The Times Record". Brunswick Times Record. 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  5. ↑ "58th Annual Honor Awards Program Book" (PDF). US Department of Commerce.
  6. ↑ "BARBARA M. FRAUMENI NAMED RECIPIENT OF THE 2006 CAROLYN SHAW BELL AWARD". American Economic Association.
  7. ↑ Caren Grown. "Q & A: Barbara M. Fraumeni". CSWEP News. American Economic Association.
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