Hilary Hoynes

Hilary Williamson Hoynes
BornAugust 31, 1961
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materColby College, 1983
Stanford University, 1992
Known forAnti-poverty work
AwardsCarolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2014
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsUC Davis UC Berkeley
Websitehttps://gspp.berkeley.edu/directories/faculty/hilary-hoynes
SpouseTom Hoynes
Children2
Parent(s)Jeffrey G. Williamson, Nancy Williamson
Websitehttps://www.hilaryhoynes.com/

Hilary Hoynes is an economist and Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. She studies the impact of tax and transfer programs on low-income families, particularly single parent families. She was the 2014 winner of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.[1][2] She has been a co-editor of the American Economic Review, co-editor of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Associate editor of Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Economic Perspectives.

In 2023, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[3]

  1. ^ "Hilary W. Hoynes Recipient of the 2014 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award". American Economic Association.
  2. ^ Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach. "An Interview with Bell Award Recipient Hilary Hoynes". CSWEP News.
  3. ^ "2023 NAS Election".