Richard B. Freeman

Richard B. Freeman
Born	(1943-06-29) June 29, 1943 (age 81) [1] Newburgh, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Dartmouth College (B.A., 1964) Harvard University (Ph.D., Economics, 1969)
Occupation(s)	professor, economist
Academic career
Doctoral advisor	John Thomas Dunlop
Doctoral students	Alan Krueger
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Website	users.nber.org/~freeman (NBER) scholar.harvard.edu/freeman (Harvard)

Richard Barry Freeman (born June 29, 1943) is an economist. The Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, Freeman is also Senior Research Fellow on Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance, part of the London School of Economics, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK's public body funding social science.^{[citation needed]} Freeman directs the Science and Engineering Workforce Project (SEWP) at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a network focused on the economics of science, technical, engineering, and IT labor which has received major long-term support from the Sloan Foundation. ^{[citation needed]}