Linda Bell

Biography

Linda Bell is the Provost and John B. Hurford Professor of Economics at Haverford College. In addition, Professor Bell is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, German and a project faculty on a Danish Research Council funded initiative at the Aarhus Business School in Denmark. She is currently a Board Member on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession of the American Economic Association.

Previously Professor Bell was a senior economist in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has held visiting appointments at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and at Stanford University.

Linda has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the US Department of Labor, and National Economic Research Associates. In addition to her academic work and teaching, Linda has been active in the American Association of University Professors, first in the capacity as Chair of the Committee on Faculty Compensation, where she authored the s Annual Faculty Compensation Report from 1997-2001, and as a National Council Representative from 2003-2006.

Education

B.S., University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Harvard University

Research

Linda is an empirical economist specializing in labor markets and public policy. She has written and lectured extensively on the topics of worker compensation, union concessions, and work hours. Her recent research focuses on the determination of gender compensation differences in executive pay in US large corporations generally, and on female mentorship at the executive level specifically. Her work has been published in the Journal of Labor Economics, Labour, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Economic Journal, Economic Letters, Proceedings of the ILLR, and the Federal Reserve Bank Quarterly Review.