Lisa Barrow ’91 To Give Economics Lecture

Lisa Barrow, a 1991 Carleton College graduate and senior research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, will give the 2004 Lamson Lecture in Economics on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 5:30 p.m. in Leighton Hall, Room 304. Her talk is titled “Is the Official Unemployment Rate Misleading?: A Look at Labor Market Statistics Over the Business Cycle.” The event is free and open to the public.

Barrow’s current research interests are in public finance and labor economics with a particular focus on education issues. In the past, her research on school choice, the earned income tax credit, and the return-to-work decisions of new mothers has appeared in journals such as Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Public Economics and the National Tax Journal. Before attending graduate school at Princeton University, Barrow worked for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. She was a visiting assistant professor at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and previously served as a lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

The Lamson Lecture is named in honor of Carleton Professor of Economics George Lamson, who died unexpectedly while teaching in China in 2002.

For more information and disability accommodations, call the Carleton economics department at (507) 646-4109.