Francine D. Blau
Born	(1946-08-29)August 29, 1946 (age 79) New York City,New York, United States
Academic background
Alma mater	Cornell University (B.S.) Harvard University (M.A.,Ph.D.)
Academic work
Discipline	Institution and Labor Relations, Economics
Institutions	NBER (1989–present) Cornell University (1994–present)
Notable ideas	Research on gender and labor market inequality
Awards	IZA Prize in Labor Economics (2010) Jacob Mincer Award (2017) AEA Distinguished Fellow[1] (2018)
Website	Information atIDEAS / RePEc

Francine Dee Blau (born August 29, 1946, inNew York City)^[2] is an Americaneconomist and professor of economics as well as Industrial and Labor Relations atCornell University. In 2010, Blau was the first woman to receive theIZA Prize in Labor Economics for her "seminal contributions to the economic analysis of labor market inequality."^[3] She was awarded the 2017Jacob Mincer Award by the Society of Labor Economists in recognition of lifetime of contributions to the field of labor economics.^[4]

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.^[2]

Blau graduated fromForest Hills High School inQueens in 1963, after which she enteredCornell University and received herB.S. inindustrial and labor relations in 1966. She received herM.A. ineconomics fromHarvard University in 1969 and herPh.D. in economics from the same university in 1975.^[2]

Blau is married toLawrence M. Kahn, also an economics professor atCornell University.^[5] Together they have two children.^[2]

Blau is currently theFrances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Economics atCornell University.^[5][6] Before coming to Cornell in 1994, she was an assistant, associate, and professor ofEconomics andLabor and Industrial Relations at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she joined the faculty in 1975. Prior to that, she was a research associate atOhio State University and a visiting lecturer atYale University.^[7]

Blau is a research associate at theNational Bureau of Economic Research,^[8] a research fellow at theInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA),^[9] and a research fellow at theCenter for Economic Studies.^[10] She is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, theAmerican Academy of Political and Social Science, and theLabor and Employment Relations Association.^[11] 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).^[11]

She has served as vice president of theAmerican Economic Association, president of the Society of Labor Economists,^[5] theLabor and Employment Relations Association, and the Midwest Economics Association.^[7] She is an Associate Editor ofLabour Economics and was formerly an editor of theJournal of Labor Economics and an Associate Editor of theJournal of Economic Perspectives.^[11] She serves or has served on numerous Editorial Boards, including theAmerican Economic Review, theJournal of Labor Economics, theJournal of Economic Perspectives, theILR Review, theJournal of Labor Research, andThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, among others.^[11][12]

• 2001 The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, awarded by theAmerican Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession for furthering the status of women in the economics profession.^[13]
• 2002 Richard A. Lester Prize for the outstanding book in labor economics and industrial relations forAt Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective (with Lawrence Kahn).^[14]
• 2003 Fellow (Founding Fellow), Society of Labor Economists.^[15]
• 2005 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science.^[16]
• 2009 Academic Fellow (Inaugural Fellow), Labor and Employment Relations Association.^[15]
• 2010 IZA Prize in Labor Economics^[17]
• 2017 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics by the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE).^[4]
• 2017 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award, ILR School, Cornell University.^[18]
• 2018 Distinguished Fellow Award, American Economic Association.^[19][20]

• Blau, Francine D. (1977).Equal Pay in the Office. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books.ISBN 978-0-669-01003-9.
• Blau, Francine D.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. (eds.) (1997).Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.ISBN 978-0-87154-122-2.
• Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. (2002).At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.ISBN 978-0-87154-100-0.
• Eds. Blau, Francine D.; Brinton, Mary C.; Grusky, David B. (2006).The Declining Significance of Gender? New York: Russell Sage Foundation.ISBN 978-0-87154-092-8.
• Blau, Francine D.; Eds. Anne C. Gielen, and Klaus F. Zimmermann (2012).Gender, Inequality, and Wages. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19966-585-3.
• Eds. Blau, Francine D. and Christopher Mackie (2017).The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.ISBN 978-0-309-44445-3.
• Blau, Francine D.; Winkler, Anne E. (2018).The Economics of Women, Men, and Work (8th ed.). Oxford University Press.ISBN 9780190620851.
  • 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.

• Curriculum Vitae Francine D. Blau atNational Bureau of Economic Research
• "Francine D. Blau" atCornell University
• Francine D. Blau publications indexed byGoogle Scholar

• 1946 births
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• American women economists
• Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations alumni
• Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations faculty
• Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
• American labor economists
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• 21st-century American economists
• Forest Hills High School (New York) alumni
• 21st-century American women

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