Marjorie McElroy
Professor
Department of Economics
Duke University
Professor Marjorie McElroy joined the Duke Economics faculty in 1970 after receiving her Ph.D. from Northwestern University, and spending a year at Bell Laboratories. She has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, Illinois, and Virginia.
McElroy specializes in microeconomics, with a specific focus on labor, demand systems, and financial economics. Her current research concentrates on labor economics and the economics of the family, with special attention to the interplay of bargained family decisions and marriage markets. Related research on China attempts to disentangle the effects of government policies from those of economic development.
The National Science Foundation has supported her research in the areas of financial economics, demand systems and production, and the economics of the family. She has served on the National Science Foundation Panel in Economics, The American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, and the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is a past Vice President of the American Economic Association and a past President of the Southern Economic Association.
In addition to directing the Labor Lunch Seminar in the department, she teaches graduate level courses in labor economics. From 1995 to 2002, she served as the department chair.
