Nancy Gordon
Nancy Gordon | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Stanford University. |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | United States Census Bureau |
| Thesis | Ex ante and Ex post Substitutability in Economic Growth |
| Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Arrow |
Nancy May Gordon is an American economist and statistician who works for the United States Census Bureau.
Education and career
[edit]Gordon majored in economics and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University.[1] Her dissertation, Ex ante and Ex post Substitutability in Economic Growth, was supervised by Kenneth Arrow.
After completing her Ph.D., she became a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University from 1970 to 1974, and then a senior research associate at the Urban Institute.
In 1979, Gordon was an appointee in the Carter Administration as a senior advisor and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Women. From 1980 to 1995 she worked in the Congressional Budget Office as a senior economist and assistant director for health and human resources.[2]
Since 1995 she has worked at the United States Census Bureau. From 1995 until 2005 she worked on household surveys as associate director for demographic programs.[2][3] she was the Associate Director for Demographic Programs Subsequently, she became associate director for strategic planning and innovation at the Census Bureau prior to her retirement.[4]
Service
[edit]Gordon was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1985,[5] and chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association from 1985 to 1987.[1] She has also served on the board of directors of Worldwide Assurance for Employees of Public Agencies, a nonprofit insurance association for federal employees, from 1982 to 1990, including a term as president of the board.[2][1]
Recognition
[edit]In September 2000, Gordon was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6][7] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Nancy Gordon Named Associate Director for Demographic Programs", Census and You, 31 (3): 5, March 1996
- ^ a b c Snider, Val (September 2009), "Nancy M. Gordon: Informing Decisions", Statisticians in History, Amstat News, American Statistical Association
- ^ U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, P60-203, Measuring 50 Years of Economic Change Using the March Current Population Survey, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998. https://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-203.pdf
- ^ "JSM 2002". ww2.amstat.org. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ^ Presidents 1971–2017 (PDF), Caucus for Women in Statistics, retrieved 2018-12-19
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2019-04-25, retrieved 2018-12-22
- ^ "American Heart Association Newly Elected Fellows, Spring 2007". Circulation. 116 (1). 2007-07-03. doi:10.1161/circulationaha.107.184674. ISSN 0009-7322.
- ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2018-12-19