Nancy Gordon
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Nancy Gordon | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Stanford University. |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | United States Census Bureau |
| Thesis | Ex ante and Ex post Substitutability in Economic Growth |
| Doctoral advisor | Kenneth Arrow |
Nancy May Gordon is an American economist and statistician who works for the United States Census Bureau.
Gordon majored in economics and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University.[1] Her dissertation, Ex ante and Ex post Substitutability in Economic Growth, was supervised by Kenneth Arrow.
After completing her Ph.D., she became a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University from 1970 to 1974, and then a senior research associate at the Urban Institute.
In 1979, Gordon was an appointee in the Carter Administration as a senior advisor and executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Women. From 1980 to 1995 she worked in the Congressional Budget Office as a senior economist and assistant director for health and human resources.[2]
Since 1995 she has worked at the United States Census Bureau. From 1995 until 2005 she worked on household surveys as associate director for demographic programs.[2][3] she was the associate director for demographic programs. Subsequently, she became associate director for strategic planning and innovation at the Census Bureau prior to her retirement.[4]