Susan Williams McElroy

This article is about the American economist. For the American psychiatrist, see Susan McElroy.

Susan Williams McElroy
Alma mater	Princeton University, B.A Stanford University, PhD
Scientific career
Fields	Economics
Institutions	Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University University of Texas at Dallas
Website	https://personal.utdallas.edu/~skm028000/

Susan Williams McElroy is an American economist who is an Associate Professor of Economics and Education Policy at the University of Texas-Dallas. She is a former president of the National Economic Association.

Selected research publications

• Hotz, V. Joseph, Susan Williams McElroy, and Seth G. Sanders. "Teenage childbearing and its life cycle consequences exploiting a natural experiment." Journal of Human Resources 40, no. 3 (2005): 683-715.
• Hotz, V. Joseph, Susan Williams McElroy, and Seth G. Sanders. "The impacts of teenage childbearing on the mothers and the consequences of those impacts for government." Kids having kids: Economic costs and social consequences of teen pregnancy (1997): 55-94.
• McElroy, Susan Williams. "Early childbearing, high school completion, and college enrollment: Evidence from 1980 high school sophomores." Economics of Education Review 15, no. 3 (1996): 303-324.
• McElroy, Susan Williams, and Leon T. Andrews Jr. "The black male and the US economy." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 569, no. 1 (2000): 160-175.
• Fernandes, Ronald, Inhyuck Steve Ha, Susan Williams McElroy, and Samuel L. Myers. "Black-White disparities in test scores: Distributional characteristics." The Review of Black Political Economy 43, no. 2 (2016): 209-232.

Community roles

McElroy is on the executive committee of the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce, and serves as volunteer economist-in-residence for the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Greater Dallas and Vicinity, which presented her with its 2017 President's Award for her efforts.