Blank, Rebecca M

LC control no.	n 85261375
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Blank, Rebecca M. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Blank, Rebecca, 1955-2023 Blank, Becky (Economist)
Other standard no.	0000 0001 1022 8947 24897495 Q510127
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1955-09-19
Death date	2023-02-17
Place of birth	Columbia (Mo.)
Place of death	Fitchburg (Wis.)
Field of activity	Poverty--United States Poverty--Research
Affiliation	University of Wisconsin--Madison Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research Princeton University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Minnesota National Bureau of Economic Research Council of Economic Advisors (U.S.) Brookings Institution American Economic Association American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Profession or occupation	Economists University and college faculty members University and college administrators
Found in	Her Differences in state income expectations ... 1983: t.p. (Rebecca M. Blank; Princeton University) Social protection versus economic flexibility, 1994: CIP t.p. (Rebecca M. Blank) pref. matter (assoc. prof. of economics at Northwestern Univ., faculty affiliate at Northwestern's Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research) It takes a nation, 1996: CIP t.p. (Rebecca M. Blank) data sht. (b. Sept. 19, 1955) U.S. Cong. Senate. Comm. on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Nominations of Rebecca M. Blank, Michael J. Copps, and Awilda R. Marquez, hearing ... 1999: t.p. (Rebecca M. Blank; to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers) p. 25 (b. 9/19/55; Univ. of Minn., B.S., 1976; Mass. Inst. of Tech., Ph.D., 1983) p. 32 (It takes a nation, 1997) p. 33 (Social protection vs. economic flexibility, 1994) Northwestern University website, Northwestern Now, Northwestern mourns the passing of Rebecca M. Blank, February 18, 2023, viewed February 18, 2023 (Rebecca Blank; on the faculty of the Economics Department 1989-1999; director of the Joint Center for Poverty Research and co-director of the Northwestern/University of Chicago Interdisciplinary Training Program in Poverty, Race and Underclass Issues; selected in October 2021 to succeed Morton Schapiro as president of Northwestern; she served as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin until May 2022 and was preparing to join Northwestern, but in July 2022 announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer, and stepped down from her role as president-elect; an internationally renowned economist; focused on interactions between labor market, individual behavior, government policy and the macroeconomy; recognized with a lifetime achievement award as a 2021 Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for almost two decades; acting secretary of commerce and deputy secretary of commerce under President Barack Obama; member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton; senior staff economics on the Council under President George H.W. Bush; Robert S. Kerr senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.) New York times, Mar. 13, 2023: in an obituary on page B5 (Rebecca Blank; born Rebecca Margaret Blank on Sept. 19, 1955 in Columbia, Mo., died on Feb. 17 [2023] in Fitchburg, Wis., aged 67; in the 1990s, Ms. Blank, then an economics professor at Northwestern University, studied how to fix the poverty measure and recommended changes. For more than a decade, she got nowhere; through [Blank's] leadership, the Supplemental Poverty Measure was born [in 2011] -- introduction of the Supplemental Poverty Measure was described as the most important new development in poverty measurement in over 30 years)
Associated language	eng