Francine D. Blau

Francine Dee Blau (born August 29, 1946, in New York City) is an American economist and professor of economics as well as Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. In 2010, Blau was the first woman to receive the IZA Prize in Labor Economics for her "seminal contributions to the economic analysis of labor market inequality." She was awarded the 2017 Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor Economists in recognition of lifetime of contributions to the field of labor economics.

Personal life and education Blau was born to parents Harold Raymond Blau and Sylvia Blau, née Goldberg, in New York City. Her parents divorced when she was six years old. She and her brother lived with their mother until Sylvia Blau became ill. After that, the children went to live with their father. Harold Blau supported Francine's wish to become an economist. Together they have two children. Before coming to Cornell in 1994, she was an assistant, associate, and professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she joined the faculty in 1975. Prior to that, she was a research associate at Ohio State University and a visiting lecturer at Yale University.

Blau is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Studies. She is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the Labor and Employment Relations Association. She is also a fellow at the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford University) and a research fellow at the Compensation Research Initiative (Cornell University).

Awards

2001 The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, awarded by the American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession for furthering the status of women in the economics profession. 2002 Richard A. Lester Prize for the outstanding book in labor economics and industrial relations for At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective (with Lawrence Kahn). 2003 Fellow (Founding Fellow), Society of Labor Economists. 2005 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2009 Academic Fellow (Inaugural Fellow), Labor and Employment Relations Association. 2017 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics by the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE). 2018 Distinguished Fellow Award, American Economic Association.

Selected publications

Books Blau, Francine D. (1977). Equal Pay in the Office. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books. . Blau, Francine D.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. (eds.) (1997). Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. . Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. (2002). At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. . Eds. Blau, Francine D.; Brinton, Mary C.; Grusky, David B. (2006). The Declining Significance of Gender? New York: Russell Sage Foundation. . Blau, Francine D.; Eds. Anne C. Gielen, and Klaus F. Zimmermann (2012). Gender, Inequality, and Wages. Oxford University Press. . Eds. Blau, Francine D. and Christopher Mackie (2017). The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. .

Blau, Francine D.; Ferber, Marianne A. The Economics of Women, Men, and Work. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1st ed. 1986, 2nd ed. 1992. Blau, Francine D.; Ferber, Marianne A.; Winkler, Anne E. The Economics of Women, Men, and Work. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 3rd ed. 1998, 4th ed. 2002, 5th ed. 2006, 6th ed. 2010, 7th ed. 2014.