Sandra E. Black holds the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs and is a Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also a nonresident senior fellow with the Economic Studies program. She served as a Member of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from August 2015–January 2017. Black received her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Since that time, she worked as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and an Assistant, Associate, and ultimately Professor in the Department of Economics at UCLA before arriving at the University of Texas, Austin in 2010. She was the Editor of the Journal of Human Resources and is currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a Research Affiliate at IZA. Her research focuses on the role of early life experiences on the long-run outcomes of children, as well as issues of gender and discrimination.
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Sandra E. Black
Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs and Professor, University of Texas at Austin; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution
