Cecilia Rouse

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Cecilia Rouse

| image = Cecilia Rouse, CEA Chair.png

| office = President of the Brookings Institution

| term_start = January 2024

| term_end =

| predecessor = Amy Liu (acting)

| successor =

| office1 = 30th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers

| president1 = Joe Biden

| term_start1 = March 12, 2021

| term_end1 = March 31, 2023

| predecessor1 = Tyler Goodspeed (Acting)

| successor1 = Jared Bernstein

| office2 = Member of the Council of Economic Advisers

| president2 = Barack Obama

| term_start2 = March 11, 2009

| term_end2 = February 28, 2011

| predecessor2 = Donald B. Marron Jr.

| successor2 = Katharine Abraham

| birth_name = Cecilia Elena Rouse

| birth_date = {{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1963|12|18}}}}

| birth_place = Walnut Creek, California, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Democratic

| spouse =

| children = 2

| relatives = Carl A. Rouse (father)
Carolyn Rouse (sister)

| education = Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD)

| module = {{Infobox economist

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| institution = Princeton University

| field = Economics

| doctoral_advisors = Lawrence F. Katz
Claudia Goldin{{cite web |url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/25/rouse-obama-economics-social/ |work=The Harvard Crimson |author=Amy Guan |title=Cecilia Rouse: Economist |date=May 25, 2011}}}}

| caption = Official portrait, 2021

}}

Cecilia Elena Rouse ({{IPAc-en|'|r|aʊ|s}} {{respell|ROWSS}}; born December{{nbsp}}18, 1963) is an American economist and the President of the Brookings Institution.{{cite web |title=Brookings Institution Announces Dr. Cecilia Rouse as President |url=https://www.brookings.edu/news/brookings-institution-announces-dr-cecilia-rouse-as-president}} She served as the 30th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers between 2021 and 2023. She is the first Black American to hold this position.{{Cite news|title=Senate confirms Cecilia Rouse as the first Black chair of White House economic council|work=The New York Times|first=Jim|last=Tankersley|date=March 2, 2021|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/us/politics/cecilia-rouse-economic-council.html|access-date=5 March 2021}} Prior to this, she served as the dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.{{Cite news|last1=Tankersley|first1=Jim|last2=Smialek|first2=Jeanna|date=2020-12-02|title=Biden's New Top Economist Has a Longtime Focus on Workers|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/business/cecilia-rouse-biden-economist.html|access-date=2020-12-02|issn=0362-4331}} Joe Biden nominated Rouse to be Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in November 2020.{{cite web |title=Economy Nominees and Appointees |url=https://buildbackbetter.gov/nominees-and-appointees/economy/ |website=President-Elect Joe Biden |access-date=30 November 2020 |date=30 November 2020}} Rouse was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate on March 2, 2021, by a vote of 95–4.{{cite web |last1=Rogers |first1=Alex |title=Senate confirms Cecilia Rouse to be Biden's top economist |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/politics/cecilia-rouse-confirmed-senate-vote/index.html |website=CNN |date=March 3, 2021|access-date=2 March 2021}} She resigned on March 31, 2023, to return to teaching.{{cite web |last1=Tankersley |first1=Jim |title=Top Economist Leaves White House, and an Economy Not Yet 'Normal' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/us/politics/cecilia-rouse-biden-economy.html |website=New York Times |date=March 31, 2023|access-date=3 April 2023}} In January 2024, she became the 9th President of the Brookings Institution.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Cecilia Rouse talks about being appointed Brookings's ninth President |url=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/dr-cecilia-rouse-talks-about-being-appointed-brookings-ninth-president/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=Brookings |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Brookings Institution Announces Dr. Cecilia Rouse as President |url=https://www.brookings.edu/news/brookings-institution-announces-dr-cecilia-rouse-as-president/ |access-date=2025-02-26 |website=Brookings Institution |language=en-US}}

Early life and education

Rouse grew up in Del Mar, California, and graduated from Torrey Pines High School in 1981.{{Cite news|last=Associated Press|author-link=Associated Press|date=2020-12-01|title=Del Mar native nominated for post in Biden administration|url=https://www.delmartimes.net/news/story/2020-12-01/del-mar-native-nominated-for-post-in-biden-administration|access-date=2020-12-04|work=Del Mar Times|language=en-US}} She has two siblings: Forest Rouse, a physicist; and Carolyn Rouse, an anthropologist and professor at Princeton University. Her father Carl A. Rouse was a research physicist who received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1956. Her mother Lorraine worked as a school psychologist.{{cite news |author1=Jennifer Greenstein Altmann |title=Childhood curiosity sparks academic career for sisters |url=https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/02/0211/7a.shtml |work=Princeton - Weekly Bulletin |date=February 11, 2002}}

Rouse received a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard University in 1986 and a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1992.{{Cite web|title=Cecilia Rouse|url=https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/cecilia-rouse|access-date=2020-12-02|publisher=Blavatnik School of Government|language=en|archive-date=December 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218192454/https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/cecilia-rouse|url-status=dead}}

Career

After earning her doctorate, Rouse joined the faculty at Princeton University in 1992.{{Cite web|title=Cecilia Rouse Joins Princeton Faculty|url=https://sheroars.princeton.edu/speaker/cecilia-elena-rouse|language=en}}

Rouse served in the National Economic Council under President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 1999.{{Cite web|title=Former Members of the Council|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/cea/about/Former-Members|access-date=2020-12-02|publisher=Obama White House|language=en}}

Rouse served as a member of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2011.

Rouse has served as the dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and is the Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education.{{Cite web|title=Dean Cecilia Rouse to be nominated chair of Council of Economic Advisers by President-Elect Biden|url=https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/11/30/dean-cecilia-rouse-be-nominated-chair-council-economic-advisers-president-elect|access-date=2021-02-06|website=Princeton University|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=rouse|url=https://spia.princeton.edu/faculty/rouse|access-date=2022-08-08|website=Princeton School of Public and International Affairs|language=en}} She is the founding director of the Princeton University Education Research Section, is a member of the National Academy of Education and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her primary research interests are in labor economics{{Cite news|last1=Davidson|first1=Kate|last2=Thomas|first2=Ken|date=2020-11-30|title=Joe Biden Fills Out His Economic Team|language=en-US|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-name-rouse-tanden-to-economic-team-11606684256|access-date=2020-12-02|issn=0099-9660}} with a focus on the economics of education.{{Cite news|last=Siegel|first=Rachel|date=January 19, 2021|title=Meet the economist charged with keeping Biden's promises to women and people of color|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/19/cecilia-rouse-cea-biden-economy/|access-date=February 6, 2021}} Rouse has served as an editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and as a senior editor of The Future of Children. She was a member of the board of directors of MDRC, and a director of the T. Rowe Price Equity Mutual Funds and an advisory board member of the T. Rowe Price Fixed Income Mutual Funds.

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=Biden administration=

President Joe Biden nominated Rouse to become Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.{{Cite news|last=Thomas|first=Ken|date=2020-11-29|title=WSJ News Exclusive {{!}} Biden to Name Rouse, Tanden to Economic Team|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-name-rouse-tanden-to-economic-team-11606684256|access-date=2020-11-29|issn=0099-9660}} The Senate Banking Committee held hearings on her nomination on January 28, 2021.{{Cite web|title=Nomination Hearing {{!}} United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs|url=https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/01/21/2021/nomination-hearing|access-date=2021-01-26|website=www.banking.senate.gov|language=en}} On February 4, 2021, the committee favorably reported Rouse's nomination to the Senate floor.{{cite web |title=PN78-17 — Cecilia Elena Rouse — Executive Office of the President 117th Congress (2021-2022) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/78/17?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22rouse%22%2C%22rouse%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1 |website=US Congress |access-date=18 March 2022}} The Senate confirmed Rouse by a vote of 95–4 on March 2, 2021.{{cite web |title=On the Nomination (Confirmation: Cecilia Elena Rouse, of New Jersey, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/78/17?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22rouse%22%2C%22rouse%22%5D%7D&s=1&r=1 |website=US Senate |access-date=18 March 2022}}

In November 2022, it was announced that Rouse would be leaving her position as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers following the 2022 midterms.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-economic-team-cecilia-rouse-leaving/|title=Top Biden economic adviser Cecilia Rouse leaving after midterm elections|publisher=CBS News|accessdate=February 8, 2023|date=November 18, 2022}} In February 2023, Jared Bernstein was nominated as her successor by President Biden.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-economic-advisers-lael-brainard-jared-bernstein/|title=Biden announces reshaped economic team, naming 2 new top advisers|date=February 14, 2023 |publisher=CBS News|accessdate=February 14, 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://www.axios.com/2023/02/14/brainard-bernstein-biden-economic-team|title=Biden appoints Lael Brainard, Jared Bernstein to key economic jobs|publisher=Axios|accessdate=February 14, 2023}}

Selected publications

{{cite journal|last1=Goldin|first1=Claudia|first2=Cecilia|last2=Rouse|title=Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians|journal=American Economic Review|volume=90|issue=4|year=2000|pages=715–741|doi=10.1257/aer.90.4.715|s2cid=16026987|url=http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01ns064602n|doi-access=free}}
{{cite journal|last1=Kane|first1=Thomas J.|first2=Cecilia Elena|last2=Rouse|title=Labor-market returns to two-and four-year college|journal=The American Economic Review|volume=85|issue=3|year=1995|pages=600–614}} [https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp0102870v868 Abstract.]
{{cite journal|last1=Rouse|first1=Cecilia Elena|title=Private school vouchers and student achievement: An evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program|journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics|volume=113|issue=2|year=1998|pages=553–602|doi=10.1162/003355398555685|s2cid=55948629|url=http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp0144558d303}}
{{cite journal|last1=Ashenfelter|first1=Orley|first2=Cecilia|last2=Rouse|title=Income, schooling, and ability: Evidence from a new sample of identical twins|journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics|volume=113|issue=1|year=1998|pages=253–284|doi=10.1162/003355398555577|s2cid=154890265|url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w6106.pdf}}
{{cite journal|last1=Kane|first1=Thomas J.|first2=Cecilia Elena|last2=Rouse|title=The community college: Educating students at the margin between college and work|journal=The Journal of Economic Perspectives|volume=13|issue=1|year=1999|pages=63–84|doi=10.1257/jep.13.1.63|doi-access=free}}
{{cite journal|last1=Rouse|first1=Cecilia Elena|title=Democratization or diversion? The effect of community colleges on educational attainment|journal= Journal of Business & Economic Statistics|volume=13|issue=2|year=1995|pages=217–224|doi=10.1080/07350015.1995.10524596|url=http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp014q77fr34z}}
{{cite journal|last1=Figlio|first1=David N.|first2=Cecilia Elena|last2=Rouse|title=Do accountability and voucher threats improve low-performing schools?|journal=Journal of Public Economics|volume= 90|issue=1|year=2006|pages=239–255|doi=10.1016/j.jpubeco.2005.08.005|s2cid=59319503|url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w11597.pdf}}