Ronald Ehrenberg is an American Economist. He is known for his works in the field of labor economics and economics of higher education.
Personal Information
Full Name : Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg
Birth Date : April 20, 1946
Birth Place : New York, USA
Education
College : Harpur College (now Binghamton University)
Degree : Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics
Master : Northwestern University (Illinois, USA)
Degree : Economics
Doctorate : Northwestern University (Illinois, USA)
Degree: Economics
Dissertation Title: The Short-Run Employment Decision and Overtime Behavior in U.S. Industry, 1966
Supervisor: Frank Brechling
Career Highlights
* Member of the Board of Trustees, Cornell University
* Vice President for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting, Cornell University
* Founder, Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI)
* Founding editor of “Research in Labor Economics”
* Served as co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources
* Research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
* Research fellow at IZA (Berlin, Germany)
* Former President, Society of Labor Economists
* Supervised the dissertations of more than 50 Ph.D. students
* Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, Economics Department, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
* Taught at University of Massachusetts Amherst
* Taught at Loyola University
Contribution to Economic Science
– Theory and Empirical Analysis of Labor Markets
– Human Resource Problems including Absenteeism
– Protective Labor Legislation and Social Insurance Programs
– Employee Benefits and Compensation Policies
– the implications of the growing dispersion of wealth across academic institutions
– the growing costs and importance of science to universities
– the financial challenges facing public higher education
– the changing nature of the faculty
– governance in academic institutions
– improving PhD programs in the humanities and associated social sciences
– improving persistence rates in STEM Field majors
– reducing inequality in access to higher education
Books / Articles Published
* Author and/or co-author of more than 25 books including the textbook “Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy” which is now on its 13th edition)
* Author and/or co-author of more than 150 scholarly articles including:
2010 – “Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities” (Co-authored with H. Zuckerman, J. A. Groen, and S. M. Brucker)
2008 – “Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future”, Cornell University Press
2007 – “Science and the University” (co-authored with P.E. Stephan)
2002 – “Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much”
1997 (editor) – “American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species”
Awards
2015 – Glenn G. Bartle Distinguished Alumnus Award from Binghamton University Alumni Association
2011 – Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Pennsylvania State University
2011 – Jacob Mincer Award from the Society of Labor Economists
2008 – Honorary Doctor of Science from Binghamton University State University of New York
2005 – Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow (highest award for undergraduate teaching at Cornell University)
2003 – General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary Undergraduate Teaching
References:
1. http://www.nber.org/vitae/vita171.htm – retrieved April 20, 2020
2. https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/people/ronald-ehrenberg – retrieved April 20, 2020