Gertrude Bancroft
{{Short description|American economist}}
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Gertrude Bancroft McNally (December 23, 1908 – January 28, 1985) was an American economist who was chief of the economic statistics section of the United States Census Bureau until 1951.{{r|key}} She was later associated with the Social Science Research Council{{r|ssrc}} and special assistant to the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.{{r|special}}
Education
Bancroft earned a master's degree in economics in 1934 from the University of Pennsylvania with a thesis on The effect of the War of 1812 on price relations in Philadelphia.{{r|philly}}
In 1958 she published the book The American Labor Force: Its Growth and Changing Composition (Wiley). This book, part of the Census Monograph Series produced by the Social Science Research Council in cooperation with the Census Bureau, analyzes the results of the 1950 United States census and associated data to measure the growth and makeup of workers and unemployed people within the US, and discover patterns of change in which kinds of people were working and what they did between 1940 and 1950.{{r|alf}}
Honors and awards
In 1962, she was honored by the American Statistical Association by election as one of their Fellows for "distinguished service to the field of labor force statistics both in the development of objectively measurable concepts and in the promotion of public understanding of the uses and limitations of labor force data".{{r|fasa}}
References
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Reviews of The American Labor Force:
- A. J. Jaffe (March 1959), Science 129 (3351): 773, {{JSTOR|1757170}}
- Sister Mary Liguori (Spring 1959), The American Catholic Sociological Review 20 (1): 88–89, {{doi|10.2307/3709674}}
- F. L. (April–June 1959), Population 14 (2): 365, {{doi|10.2307/1526433}}
- Robert J. Lampman (July 1959), ILR Review 12 (4): 641–642, {{doi|10.2307/2519851}}
- Robert L. Bunting (July 1959), Southern Economic Journal 26 (1): 78–79, {{doi|10.2307/1055886}}
- Charles D. Stewart (October 1959), American Sociological Review 24 (5): 743–744, {{JSTOR|2096194}}
- Ann Ratner Miller (September 1959), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 325 (1): 124–125, {{doi|10.1177/000271625932500117}}, {{JSTOR|1034239}}
- Lois MacDonald (September 1959), The Journal of Economic History 19 (3): 423–424, {{doi|10.1017/S0022050700078098}}, {{JSTOR|2115270}}
- Edith Adams (November 1959), Population Studies 13 (2): 193–194, {{doi|10.2307/2172412}}
- Morris Cohen (January 1960), Journal of Marketing 24 (3): 120–121, {{doi|10.2307/1248729}}
- K. K. (January 1960), International Affairs 36 (1): 148, {{doi|10.2307/2609432}}
- Ray Carpenter (March 1960), Social Forces 38 (3): 281–282, {{doi|10.2307/2574104}}
- Jacob Mincer (April 1960), Journal of Political Economy 68 (2): 209–211, {{doi|10.1086/258314}}
- Jean L'Homme (July 1960), Revue économique 11 (4): 670–671, {{JSTOR|4626547}}
- Carol P. Brainerd (1960), The Economic History Review 12 (3): 500, {{doi|10.2307/2590931}}
Author affiliation for The American Labor Force
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