Frances Woolley

Frances Woolley is a professor of economics at Carleton University, Canada, and has been teaching there since 1990. She holds a B.A. from Simon Fraser University, a M.A. from Queen's University, and a Ph.D. from London School of Economics under the supervision of Tony Atkinson. Her thesis was titled [http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1185/ Economic models of family decision-making, with applications to intergenerational justice]. Her research includes fields such as public finance, labour economics, as well as family and public policies. She has served as secretary treasurer and president of the Canadian Economics Association and co-editor of ''Review of Economics of the Household'', on the editorial boards of ''Feminist Economics'' and the ''Journal of Socio-Economics'', and as the associate dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University.

In recent years, she has been devoting more time to writing on her blog, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, and to writing for ''The Globe and Mail''. In describing herself, she says, "I theorize about life" and uses economics to relate to things that happen in everyday life. Provided by Wikipedia