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.

## Contents

* 1 Education and career
* 2 Service
* 3 Recognition
* 4 References

## Education and career

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]

## Service

Gordon was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 1985,[5] and chair of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association from 1985 to 1987.[1] She has also served on the board of directors of Worldwide Assurance for Employees of Public Agencies, a nonprofit insurance association for federal employees, from 1982 to 1990, including a term as president of the board.[2][1]

## Recognition

In September 2000, Gordon was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6][7] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[8]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Nancy Gordon Named Associate Director for Demographic Programs", Census and You 31 (3): 5, March 1996, https://books.google.com/books?id=q9kqk8pBKwsC&pg=PA5
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Snider, Val (September 2009), "Nancy M. Gordon: Informing Decisions", Amstat News (American Statistical Association), http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2009/09/01/nancymgordonsep09/
3. ↑ U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, P60-203, Measuring 50 Years of Economic Change Using the March Current Population Survey, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998. https://www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-203.pdf
4. ↑ "JSM 2002". https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2002/onlineprogram/index.cfm?fuseaction=abstract_details&abstractid=300389.
5. ↑ Presidents 1971–2017, Caucus for Women in Statistics, https://cwstat.org/wp-content/uploads/presidents-through-2016.pdf, retrieved 2018-12-19
6. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2018-12-22
7. ↑ "American Heart Association Newly Elected Fellows, Spring 2007". Circulation 116 (1). 2007-07-03. doi:10.1161/circulationaha.107.184674. ISSN 0009-7322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.107.184674.
8. ↑ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual, retrieved 2018-12-19

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