Julia Lane

Julia Ingrid Lane is an economist and economic statistician who works as a professor at New York University.

Education and career

Lane has triple citizenship in the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. She earned a bachelor's degree from Massey University in New Zealand in 1977, studying economics and the Japanese language, and then came to the University of Missouri for graduate study. She completed a master's degree in statistics with a minor in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in economics with a minor in German, both in 1982.[1]

She joined the faculty of Western Illinois University in 1982, and moved to the University of Louisville in 1983. She moved again to American University in 1990, taking a temporary drop in rank to assistant professor in the move; while at American University, beginning in 1992, she also began consulting with the Education and Social Policy and Private Sector Development units of the World Bank. In 2000 she took a position as Director and Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute and in 2004 she became a Program Director for Economics at the National Science Foundation. From 2005 to 2008 she was Senior Vice President at NORC at the University of Chicago, and from 2008 to 2012 she returned to the National Science Foundation as a Senior Program Director. From 2012 to 2015 she worked at the American Institutes for Research, and since 2015 she has been affiliated with New York University. There, she is Professor of Public Service in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Professor of the Practice in the Center for Urban Science and Progress, and Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics.[1]

Awards and honors

Lane has been a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) since 2009. She is also a fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[1]

She won the ASA's Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics in 2014, "for her contributions to the development of a new Census Bureau program that has significantly advanced research on employment dynamics",[2] and in the same year also won the ASA's Roger Herriot Award for the same census project.[3]

In 2017, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research gave Lane their Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences.[4]

Books

Lane is the author of three books:[1]

  • Moving Up or Moving On: Workers, Firms and Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market (with Fredrik Andersson and Harry J. Holzer, Sage Press, 2005)
  • Clair Brown; John Haltiwanger (15 September 2008). Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America?. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-07634-8.[5]
  • Where Are All The Good Jobs Going? What National And Local Job Quality And Dynamics Mean For U.S. Workers (with Harry J. Holzer and David Rosenblum, Russell Sage Press, 2011)[6]
gollark: That is true, but they should also receive more scrutiny and testing.
gollark: Even the biggest projects still have exploitable issues.
gollark: Pretty hard.
gollark: Also, situations when you're right but the compiler can't prove it occasionally happen.
gollark: It can be kind of painful sometimes. My main issue is just compile times and in some cases poor type errors.

References
  1. Curriculum vitae (PDF), September 2017, retrieved 2017-10-31
  2. Julius Shiskin Award, ASA Business and Economic Statistics Section, retrieved 2017-10-31
  3. Roger Herriot Award, ASA Social Statistics Section, retrieved 2017-10-31
  4. ICPSR announces the 2017 Warren E. Miller Award and William H. Flanigan Award winners, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, retrieved 2017-10-31
  5. Reviews for Economic Turbulence: Is A Volatile Economy Good for America?: Terry J. Fitzgerald (2007), The Region, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, ; Edward M. Gramlich (2007), International Review of Economics & Finance 16 (4): 605–606, doi:10.1016/j.iref.2006.10.003; Mitch Renkow (August 2008), Journal of Regional Science 48 (3): 673–675, doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.2008.00567_10.x. Listed as an Outstanding Academic Title in the Social and Behavioral Sciences for 2007 by the American Library Association, .
  6. Reviews of Where Are All The Good Jobs Going? What National And Local Job Quality And Dynamics Mean For U.S. Workers: Stephen E. Baldwin (October 2011), "Matching good people and good jobs", Monthly Labor Review, JSTOR monthlylaborrev.2011.10.031; Susan Houseman (March 2012), Journal of Economic Literature 50 (1): 198–200, JSTOR 23269984; Arne L. Kalleberg (December 2012), Contemporary Sociology 42 (1): 86–88, doi:10.1177/0094306112468721o; Arindrajit Dube (July 2013), ILR Review 66 (4): 1015–1017, doi:10.1177/001979391306600413, JSTOR 24369564.
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