CSWEP Board Member
- Barbara M. Fraumeni
Barbara M. Fraumeni joined the Muskie School of Public Service of the University of Southern Maine as Professor of Public Policy and Chair of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy in August of 2005. In September of 2007, she became the Associate Dean for Research of the Muskie School. Muskie’s research institutes employ approximately 200 staff and have about $30 million in awards. She is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. Before coming to the Muskie School, she served as Chief Economist of the Bureau of Economic Analysis from January of 1999 until July of 2005. She has a 1972 B.A. from Wellesley College and a 1980 Ph.D. from Boston College, both in economics. After graduation from Wellesley, she became a Research Assistant for Dale W. Jorgenson of the Department of Economics and the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University, beginning a research collaboration that continues to the present. From 1982 through 1998, Dr. Fraumeni was a Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. From 1988 through 1998, she was also a Research Fellow of the Program on Technology and Economic Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
In 2006 Professor Fraumeni was awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce's highest award, a Gold Medal, for her pioneering work on R&D and the U.S. economy. She also received the 2006 American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for furthering the status of women in the economics professions through example, mentoring, and achievements.
Her areas of expertise include measurement issues and national income accounting; her research interests include human and nonhuman capital, productivity, economic growth, market and nonmarket accounts, investment in education, R&D, and measurement of highway capital stock and the output of government.
