Betsey Stevenson

Hearing of March 16, 2016 - Public Input into the Proposed Revisions to the EEO-1 Report

Betsey Stevenson is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich. She has served as a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2015 and as the Chief Economist of the US Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011. She has held previous positions at Princeton University and at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Dr Stevenson is a labor economist who has published widely in leading economics journals about the impact of public policies on the labor market, with a focus on women and families, and on the value of subjective well-being data for policy analysis. Her research explores women's labor market experiences, the economic forces shaping the modern family, and how these labor market experiences and economic forces on the family influence each other. She is a columnist for Bloomberg View, and her thoughts on the economy are frequently covered in both print and television media.

Dr Stevenson earned a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.