Elizabeth Bailey
| Elizabeth Ellery Bailey | |
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| Born | 1938 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Economics |
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The Wharton School Carnegie Mellon Bell Laboratories |
| Alma mater |
Radcliffe College Stevens Institute of Technology Princeton University |
| Notable awards | Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, 2009 Doctor of Engineering (Honorary), Stevens Institute of Technology, 2000 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997 Directors' Choice Award, National Women's Economic Alliance Foundation, 1990 LLD (Honorary), DePaul University, 1988 Radcliffe College Alumnae Recognition Award, 1985 |
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Website https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/baileye/ |
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Elizabeth Ellery Bailey (born 1938) is an American economist. She is the John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy, at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Bailey grew up in New York City, where she graduated from the Chapin School in 1956. She received her bachelor's degree from the Radcliffe College, a master's degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she was the first woman to receive a doctoral degree in economics. Bailey was named the first woman to head a department (the economic research section) at Bell Laboratories. Bailey worked in technical programming at Bell Laboratories from 1960 to 1972, before transferring to the economic research section from 1972 to 1977.
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter named Bailey the first woman Civil Aeronautics Board Commissioner. In 1981, she was named the first woman vice chairman of the agency by President Ronald Reagan. Between 1977 and 1983 she served on the Civil Aeronautics Board, where she oversaw the deregulation of the airline industry. From 1983 to 1990, she was Dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration of Carnegie Mellon University. Bailey became the first woman dean to head a Top 10 graduate school with this appointment.
Bailey joined The Wharton School in July 1991, having served from July 1990 to June 1991 as a professor of industrial administration at Carnegie Mellon University, and as a visiting scholar at the Yale School of Organization and Management. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997. She serves on the Board of Directors of TIAA-CREF, Altria, and CSX Corporation, and is a trustee of The Brookings Institution and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bailey has been the Vice Chairmen of Bancroft NeuroHealth since 1989.
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