Stevens alumna Elizabeth Ellery Bailey named recipient of the 2009 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award
Bailey is Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Stevens Institute of Technology graduate alumna Elizabeth Ellery Bailey M.S. ’66, Hon.Ph.D. ‘00 is the 2009 recipient of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award.
The award will be presented at the annual business meeting of the American Economics Association’s (AEA) Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) on Sunday, January 3, 2010, from 12:30–2:00 p.m. in the M101 room of the Marriott Marquis Atlanta Hotel. A reception in part to honor Professor Bailey will be held in the evening from 6:00–7:30 p.m. in the M304 room of the Marriott Marquis.
Elizabeth E. Bailey is the John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on economic regulation and deregulation, market structure, and corporate governance. In addition to many journal articles, Bailey is the author of Economic Theory of Regulatory Constraint, (D.C. Heath, 1973), Deregulating the Airlines with David Graham and Daniel Kaplan, (The MIT Press, 1985), and the editor of The Political Economy of Privatization and Deregulation with Janet Rothenberg Pack, (Edward Elgar, 1995).
Bailey is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Stevens Institute of Technology, where she received her Master of Science degree in Mathematics. In 1972 she was the first woman to receive a doctorate in economics from Princeton University. She served as dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration from 1983 to 1990. She also holds an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering (2000) degree from Stevens Institute of Technology.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Bailey as the first female commissioner of the Civil Aeronautics Board, where she played an instrumental role in the deregulation of US airline industry. From 1960-1977 she was at Bell Laboratories, where she began as a computer programmer and became head of the Economics Research Department.
Bailey was Vice President of the American Economic Association from 1981-1983, the Chair of its Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession in 1980-1982, and was elected President of the Eastern Economics Association in 1998. She was Chair of the National Bureau of Economics Research from 2005-2007 and formerly served as a trustee of Princeton University and as an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.
The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award was created in January 1998 as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of the founding of CSWEP. Carolyn Shaw Bell, who was the Katharine Coman Chair Professor Emerita of Wellesley College, was also the first Chair of CSWEP. The Bell award is given annually to an individual who has furthered the status of women in economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, and the mentoring of others.About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
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