NBER Profile: Kathryn L. Shaw.

Kathryn L. Shaw is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Labor Studies and Productivity and the Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. She completed her Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in 1981. Before joining the Stanford faculty, she was a Member of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers (1999-2001). She was also the Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Economics at the business school at Carnegie Mellon University.

In 2008, Shaw was elected a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. She also has...