Julia Ingrid Lane is an

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and economic statistician who works as a professor emerita at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Education and career

Lane has triple citizenship in the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

, the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

, and

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

. She earned a bachelor's degree from

Massey University Massey University () is a Public university, public research university in New Zealand that provides internal and distance education. The university has campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North, and Wellington. Data from Universities New Zealand ...

in New Zealand in 1977, studying economics and the

Japanese language is the principal language of the Japonic languages, Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese dia ...

, and then came to the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

for graduate study. She completed a master's degree in statistics with a minor in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in economics with a minor in German, both in 1982. She joined the faculty of

Western Illinois University Western Illinois University (WIU) is a public university in Macomb, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1899 as Western Illinois State Normal School. As the normal school grew, it became Western Illinois State Teachers College. Once West ...

in 1982, and moved to the

University of Louisville The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public university, public research university in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is part of the Kentucky state university system. Chartered in 1798 as the Jefferson Seminary, it became in the 19t ...

in 1983. She moved again to

American University The American University (AU or American) is a Private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90-acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spri ...

in 1990, taking a temporary drop in rank to assistant professor in the move; while at American University, beginning in 1992, she also began consulting with the Education and Social Policy and Private Sector Development units of the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development ...

. In 2000 she took a position as Director and Principal Research Associate at the

Urban Institute The Urban Institute is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank that conducts economic and social policy research to "open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions". The institute receives funding from government contracts, foundations, and p ...

and in 2004 she became a Program Director for Economics at the

National Science Foundation The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an Independent agencies of the United States government#Examples of independent agencies, independent agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government that su ...

. From 2005 to 2008 she was Senior Vice President at

NORC at the University of Chicago NORC at the University of Chicago, previously the National Opinion Research Center, is an independent social research organization in the United States. Established in 1941, its corporate headquarters is located in downtown Chicago, with office ...

, and from 2008 to 2012 she returned to the National Science Foundation as a Senior Program Director. From 2012 to 2015 she worked at the

American Institutes for Research The American Institutes for Research (AIR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan behavioral and social science research, evaluation, and technical assistance organization based in Arlington, Virginia. One of the world's largest social science research o ...

, and since 2015 she has been affiliated with New York University. There, she is a Professor Emerita. She was formerly a Professor of Public Service in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Professor of the Practice in the

Center for Urban Science and Progress The NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (commonly referred to as CUSP) is a degree-granting technology and research institute in downtown Brooklyn, New York City. It is a graduate school of New York University focusing on urban informatics ...

, and Provostial Fellow for Innovation Analytics.

Awards and honors

Lane has been a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The designation of ASA Fellow has been a sign ...

(ASA) since 2009. She is also a fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement and the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a United States–based international nonprofit with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsib ...

, and an elected member of the

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. At a meeting of the Jubilee Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, statisticians met and formed the agreed statues of the International Statistical ...

. She won the ASA's Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics in 2014. In the same year, she won the Roger Herriot award. "for her contributions to the development of a new Census Bureau program that has significantly advanced research on employment dynamics", and in the same year also won the ASA's Roger Herriot Award for the same census project. In 2017, the

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an American political science and social science research consortium, based at the University of Michigan. It was founded in 1962. An integral part of the infrastructure ...

gave Lane their Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences.

Books

Lane is the author of four books: *''Moving Up or Moving On: Workers, Firms and Advancement in the Low-Wage Labor Market'' (with Fredrik Andersson and Harry J. Holzer, Sage Press, 2005) * *''Where Are All The Good Jobs Going? What National And Local Job Quality And Dynamics Mean For U.S. Workers'' (with Harry J. Holzer and David Rosenblum, Russell Sage Press, 2011) *''Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto'' (

MIT Press The MIT Press is the university press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The MIT Press publishes a number of academic journals and has been a pioneer in the Open Ac ...

, 2020),

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