NBER Profile: Judith M. Gueron.

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Judith M. Gueron, President of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), was elected a director-at-large of the NBER at the October meeting of NBER's Board of Directors. Gueron received a B.A. in economics from Radcliffe College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

From 1972-4 she was Director of Special Projects and Studies and a Consultant at the New York City Human Resources Administration (Office of Policy Research). She became Research Director of MDRC -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization which designs and field-tests education and employment-related programs aimed at improving the well-being of low-income Americans -- in 1974 and was promoted to Executive Vice President for Research...