Heidi Hartmann

Early life Hartmann was born in 1945 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the daughter of German parents Henry Leopold Hartmann and Hedwig (Bercher) Hartmann. She attended Swarthmore College, where she received a B.A. in economics with honors in 1967. Hartmann then attended Yale University, where she received a M. Phil. in economics in 1972 and a PhD in the subject in 1974.

Awards and honors In 1994, Hartmann was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship Award—a five-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation given to individuals who show exceptional creativity for their research and the prospect for more in the future—for her work on women and economics. She is also the recipient of two honorary degrees.

Personal life In 1967, she married Frank Blair Cochran, with whom she shares a daughter, Jessica Lee Cochran, then divorced a year later. In 1979, she married John Varick Wells and had two daughters—Katharine Lina Hartman Wells and Laura Cameron Hartmann Wells.

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Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Occupational Classification and Analysis.