Charlotte F. Muller

Charlotte Feldman Muller (February 19, 1921 – April 29, 2024) was an American economist and academic who was professor of economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and associate director for economics at the International Leadership Center on Longevity and Society, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is an author of the book Health Care and Gender and numerous scientific articles. Among her research interests were women's health, health care and aging.

Life Charlotte Muller was born on February 19, 1921. She graduated from Vassar College receiving her A.B. in 1941. In 1942 she earned M.A. and in 1946 Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

Muller was married to Dr. Jonas Muller. After his death, she married for the second time to Carl Schoenberg of Teaneck, New Jersey, director of publications for the Child Welfare League of America, Inc. in 1970.

Career Between 1942 and 1946 Muller worked at Chase National Bank as Research Staff. In 1978 she was one of the organizers of Census Bureau Conference on Issues in the Federal Statistical Needs Relating to Women.

Muller was later professor emerita of economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and associate director for economics at the International Leadership Center on Longevity and Society at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Publications (selection) C.F. Muller, Light Metals Monopoly, New York: Columbia University Press, 1946. C.F. Muller, P. Worthington, The Time Structure of Capital Formation: Design and Construction of Municipal Hospital Projects, Inquiry, vol. VI, no. 2, June 1969. C.F. Muller, Socioeconomic Outcomes of Restricted Access to Abortion, American Journal of Public Health, June 1971. C.F. Muller, The Overmedicated Society: Forces in the marketplace for medical care, Science, vol. 176, 1972. C.F. Muller, Testimony, Hearings on Barriers to Health Care for Older Americans, Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging, U.S. Senate, 93rd Congress, First Session, March 6, 1973. C.F. Muller, F.S. Jaffe, and M.G. Kovar, Reproductive Efficiency as a Social Indicator, International Journal of Health Services, vol. 6, no. 3, 1976. C.F. Muller, Methodological Issues in Health Economics Research Relevant to Women, DHEW Publication No. 77-3138. Reprinted in Women and Health, January–February 1976 (US) and Social Science & Medicine vol. 2 1977 (Great Britain). C.F. Muller, Review of Twenty Years of Research on Medical Care Utilization, Health Services Research, June 1986, Part 1. C. F. Muller, Health Care and Gender—BOOK—Russell Sage Foundation, 1990, (paperback 1992). C. F. Muller, C. L. Caton, Economic Costs of Schizophrenia: A Post-Discharge Study, Medical Care, January 1983.