Barbara Reagan

Barbara Reagan (1920–2002) was an American economist. From 1967 - 1990, she was a professor at the Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Her areas of specialization included analysis and methodology of national surveys of income and expenditure, labour migration of African and Mexican Americans, and occupational segregation by sex and factors affecting women's labour supply. She was a founding member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. After her retirement from Southern Methodist University, she was a director of the American Savings Bank and The Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation. Her daughter, Patricia Reagan, is also a professor of economics.

Selected publications

Reagan, B. B. (1975). Two supply curves for economists? Implications of mobility and career attachment of women. The American Economic Review, 65(2), 100–107.