A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF BARBARA R. BERGMANN
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Barbara R. Bergmann is currently a professor of economics at
American University in Washington, D.C. Dr. Bergmann earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her interests include women's issues, social policy, labor economics, microsimulation, the economics of college sports, and new methodologies for economics.
She has authored "The Economic Emergence of Women" as well as "In Defense of Affirmative Action" and
"Saving Our Children From Poverty: What the United States Can Learn From
France." She has also written op-ed pieces on economic issues for The New York Times and
the Los Angeles Times.
Before teaching at American University, she
taught at Brandeis and the University of Maryland. She served as a senior staff
member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Kennedy
Administration. Other government experience includes service as Senior
Economic Adviser with the Agency for International Development, and as an
economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She has served on advisory
committees to the Congressional Budget Office and the Bureau of the Census.
