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Richard B. Freeman

American economist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1943 · age 83

Richard Barry Freeman is an economist. The Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and co-director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, Freeman is also Senior Research Fellow on Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance, part of the London School of Economics,...

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2007IZA Prize in Labor EconomicsAward2006Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2001Berlin PrizeAward1943Born29 June 1943

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IZA Prize in Labor Economics2007
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2006
Berlin Prize2001
Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and co-director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, Freeman is also Senior Research Fellow on Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance, part of the London School of Economics, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK's public body funding social science. Freeman directs the Science and Engineering Workforce Project (SEWP) at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a network focused on the economics of science, technical, engineering, and IT labor which has received major long-term support from the Sloan Foundation.

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Born 1943 · age 83