Anne E. Winkler, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Economics and Public Policy Administration
e-mail: awinkler@umsl.edu
webpage: http://www.umsl.edu/~ecoawink/
Anne E. Winkler is Professor of Economics and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her undergraduate degree in economics from Wesleyan University. She has been a faculty member at UM-St. Louis since 1989. Her main areas of research interest are in the economics of gender, the economics of the family, and welfare and poverty. Prof. Winkler regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate labor economics courses, as well as introductory econometrics, public sector microeconomics, and principles of microeconomics. She is co-author (with Francine D. Blau and Marianne A. Ferber) of the third and subsequent editions of The Economics of Women, Men and Work, published by Prentice Hall. The most recent edition of the text -- the fifth -- was published in July 2005. Her work has appeared in economics and broader social science journals including Journal of Human Resources, Research in Labor Economics, Monthly Labor Review, Demography, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and Journal of Urban Economics. Prof. Winkler previously served as 2nd Vice President of the Midwest Economics Association and as President of the St. Louis Chapter of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). She is currently a research affiliate at the National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, at University of Michigan. In 2007, Anne Winkler, Sharon Levin, and Paula Stephan received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to fund research titled “The Diffusion of Information Technology Across Institutions of Higher Education: Effects on Productivity by Type of Institution and Gender.”