Ann Dryden Witte

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Ann Dryden Witte (born August 28, 1942) is an American economist, known for her work on "a variety of interesting and eclectic problems" and as a "prolific author of books, monographs, and professional articles". [1] She is a professor emerita of economics at Wellesley College, [2] and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. [3]

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Education and career

Ann Dryden was born in Oceanside, New York, the daughter of a husband-wife team that ran a used machinery business on Long Island. [1] She graduated from the University of Florida in 1963, majoring in political science and history, and earned a master's degree in economics at Columbia University in 1965. [1] [4] In 1969, as a graduate student at North Carolina State University, she married Charles Leo Witte. [1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1971 in economics, with a minor in oceanography. [4] Her dissertation was Employment in the Manufacturing Sector of Developing Economies: A Study of Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. [4] [5] During this time she worked as an economic and systems analyst in the federal government from 1963 to 1967, and then as an instructor at Tougaloo College and North Carolina State University. [4]

After finishing her doctorate, she joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina, where she remained until 1985. She became an associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1984, and moved from North Carolina to Wellesley in 1985. In 1987 and 1988 she also held a position as Fellow in Law and Economics at the Harvard Law School. [4]

She chaired the Child Care Policy Research Consortium from 1999 to 2000. [4]

Books

Witte is the author or coauthor of:

She is also a co-author on several book-length government reports. [4]

Recognition

Witte is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology, the American Statistical Association, and the Royal Statistical Society. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Cicarelli, James; Cicarelli, Julianne (2003), "Ann Dryden Witte (1942– )", Distinguished Women Economists, Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 226–229, ISBN   9780313303319
  2. "Ann Witte, Professor Emerita of Economics", Economics Faculty & Staff, Wellesley College, retrieved 2017-11-14
  3. Ann Dryden Witte, National Bureau of Economic Research, retrieved 2017-11-14
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Curriculum Vitae (PDF), January 13, 2006, retrieved 2017-11-14
  5. Sullivan, William M. (1988), Dissertations and Theses on Venezuelan Topics, 1900-1985, Scarecrow Press, pp. 69–70, ISBN   9780810820173
  6. Review of Taxpayer Compliance:
  7. Reviews of Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models:
  8. Reviews of An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice:
    • McGahey, Richard (Autumn 1984), American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 9 (4): 869–887, doi:10.1086/492088, JSTOR   828372 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Berk, Richard A. (September 1985), Contemporary Sociology, 14 (5): 590–591, doi:10.2307/2069522, JSTOR   2069522 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Flinn, Christopher J. (March 1986), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81 (393): 250, JSTOR   2287999 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gelfand, Alan E. (March 1986), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81 (393): 250–251, JSTOR   2288000 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. Reviews of Beating the System:
    • Somers, Harold M. (November 1982), Policy Sciences, 15 (1): 87–89, doi:10.1007/bf00143371, JSTOR   4531922, S2CID   189828415 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Mayhew, Anne (March 1983), Implementing Governmental Change, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 466, Sage Publications, Inc., American Academy of Political and Social Science, pp. 244–245, JSTOR   1044790
    • Gutmann, Peter M. (March 1983), Journal of Economic Literature, 21 (1): 117–120, JSTOR   2724774 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Noel, Thomas J. (Summer 1983), The Business History Review, 57 (2): 283–284, doi:10.2307/3114365, JSTOR   3114365, S2CID   156688776 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)