Sandra Black (economist)

Sandra Black
Born1969 (age 54–55)
SpousePatrick Youngblood
Academic career
InstitutionColumbia University
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Doctoral
advisor
Lawrence F. Katz
WebsiteOfficial website

Sandra Eilene Black (born 1969) is a Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.[1] She 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 as an assistant, associate, and ultimately full professor in the Department of Economics at UCLA before arriving at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. She is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a research affiliate at IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Institution. She served as a Member of Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from August 2015 to January 2017.[2]

  1. ^ "ECONOMIST SANDRA BLACK AND POLITICAL SCIENTIST KEREN YARHI-MILO WILL JOIN SIPA FACULTY". Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  2. ^ "Members of the Council of Economic Advisers". The White House. Retrieved 2018-01-21.