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Their son, Robert Akerlof (born 1978), is a fellow economist. He received a bachelor's summa cum laude in economics and mathematics from Yale University and earned his PhD in economics from Harvard University, where he was a Presidential Scholar.
Robert Akerlof is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Prior to joining Warwick, he was a postdoctoral research associate at MIT Sloan School of Management. He received his PhD from Harvard, where he was a Presidential Scholar.
Mar 18, 2014 · While Yellen and Akerlof were teaching at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, their search for a babysitter for their son, Robert, now an economist teaching in Britain, inspired a 1990 research paper...
Jan 9, 2014 · Yellen is married to Nobel laureate George Akerlof, who teaches economics at U.C. Berkeley; their son Robert, 32, is an economics professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. In her...
Oct 10, 2013 · Akerlof tackles the latter problem, arguing that low marriage rates contribute to single men's elevated rates of crime, drug addiction, unemployment, mortality, and other problems. Men, too, are hurt by the decline of marriage and fatherhood.
Robert Akerlof is an American Economist, son of Janet Yellen and George Akerlof. He is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. [1] He was born on June 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Yale in 2003 with a BA in economics and in 2005 with a masters.
Sep 29, 2013 · In connecting with George Akerlof, then on a temporary assignment at the Fed's research division in Washington, Yellen discovered not just a soul mate but an intellectual equal with similar views ...
