Shirley Montag Almon
{{short description|American economist (1935–1975)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1935|02|06}}
| birth_place = Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1975|09|29|1935|02|06}}
| death_place = College Park, Maryland, U.S.
| nationality = American
| spouse = Clopper Almon Jr. (m. 1958)
| institution = Council of Economic Advisers
National Bureau of Economic Research
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| alma_mater = Harvard University
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Shirley Montag Almon (February 6, 1935 – September 29, 1975) was an American economist noted for the Almon Lag.
Early life and education
Shirley Montag was born on February 6, 1935, in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, the eldest of seven children of Harold and Dorothea Montag. She was educated at Goucher College, Baltimore, and then for her PhD at Harvard University (1964). A core element of her PhD was published in Econometrica (1965), and introduced the now famous technique for estimating distributed lags.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Liu8A8KjDR0C&pg=PA11|title=Distinguished Women Economists|last1=Cicarelli|first1=James|last2=Cicarelli|first2=Julianne|publisher=Greenwood|year=2003|isbn=978-0-313-30331-9|pages=11–12}}
Career
She went on to work at the Women's Bureau, the National Bureau of Economic Research, The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Federal Reserve Board and at both Wesley College and Harvard University. Her most noted post was her appointment to the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors in 1966.{{Cite book | last1 = Waud | first1 = Roger N. | chapter = Almon, Shirley Montag (1935–1975) | doi = 10.1057/9780230226203.1973 | title = The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics | pages = 1| year = 1987| isbn = 9780333786765 }}Blaug, Mark (1985) Great Economists Since Keynes, Harvester
Selected publications
- {{cite journal |year=1965 |title=The distributed lag between capital appropriations and expenditures |journal=Econometrica |volume=33 |issue= 1|pages=178–196 |jstor=1911894 |last1=Almon |first1=Shirley |doi=10.2307/1911894 }}
- {{cite journal |year=1968 |title=Lags between investment decisions and their causes |journal=Review of Economics and Statistics |volume=50 |issue= 2|pages=193–206 |jstor=1926195 |last1=Almon |first1=Shirley |doi=10.2307/1926195 }}
Personal life
She married Clopper Almon Jr. on June 14, 1958. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor in December 1967 after four years of various symptoms, and died on September 29, 1975, aged 40, in College Park, Maryland.
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Category:20th-century American economists