| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Daron Acemoglu | | | Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1967 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Cecilia Elena Rouse | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 302. Economics | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1963 | | | | | | |
Cecilia Elena Rouse is the Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education and a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She is currently serving as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Biden-Harris Administration and formerly served as dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her primary research interests are in labor economics with a focus on the economics of education. She has studied the economic benefit of education, including community college attendance, evaluated the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, examined the effects of education inputs on student achievement, tested for the existence of discrimination in symphony orchestras, studied unions in South Africa, and estimated the effect of financial aid on college matriculation and student occupational choice, the effectiveness of technology-based programs in public schools, the impact of Florida’s school accountability and voucher programs on student outcomes, and the effect of performance-based scholarships on post-secondary student time use.
Rouse is the founding director of the Princeton University Education Research Section, a member of the National Academy of Education, the 2018 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. She has been an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics, a senior editor of The Future of Children and a member of the editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. In 1998-99 she served a year in the White House as a Special Assistant to the President at the National Economic Council and from 2009-2011 served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. She has also served on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Bureau of Economic Research, The Pennington School, and the University of Rhode Island, and was a Director of the T. Rowe Price Equity Mutual Funds and T. Rowe Price Fixed Income Mutual Funds. She received her B.A. in economics from Harvard University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1992. | |
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