Hilary Williamson Hoynes | |
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| Born | August 31, 1961 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Colby College, 1983 Stanford University, 1992 |
| Known for | Anti-poverty work |
| Awards | Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2014 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Economics |
| Institutions | UC Davis UC Berkeley |
| Website | https://gspp.berkeley.edu/directories/faculty/hilary-hoynes |
| Spouse | Tom Hoynes |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Jeffrey G. Williamson, Nancy Williamson |
| Website | https://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]