CSWEP Board Member - Linda Bell
Linda A. Bell is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Haverford College, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Previously Linda 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 most recently at Stanford University in the department of economics. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1986, and her bachelor degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. Linda has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the US Department of Labor, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Linda is an empirical economist specializing in labor markets. She has written and lectured extensively on the topic of US union concessions, the determination of US work hours, and the comparative relationship between work hours in the US and Europe, with most detailed focus on Germany. Her most recent research focuses on the determination of gender compensation differences in executive pay in US large corporations generally, and in US technology companies and smaller start-up companies specifically, and on the importance of female executives in mentoring women within the firm. She is currently engaged in a joint project with researchers at the Aarhus Business School in Denmark that explores similar issues with Danish data. 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.
In addition to her academic work and teaching, Linda has been active in the American Association of University Professors, first in the capacity of chair of the committee on faculty compensation, where she authored the Association’s annual faculty compensation report from 1997-2001, and as a National Council Representative from 2003-2006. She has also served numerous times as an expert witness in a number of class-action law suits involving alleged unfair workplace practices, and is currently a special consultant at NERA (National Economic Research Associates).
Linda is married with two sons, and resides in Haverford, PA.
