Eva mueller biography

American economist (1920–2006)

Eva Mueller (1920 – November 19, 2006) was a Professor of Economics and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. She studied consumer behavior in the United States and economic demography in low-income countries, particularly the relationship between income change and fertility change.

She also made contributions to survey methodology, including methods of collecting employment statistics and time-use data.^[1]

Life

Mueller was born in Germany, where both of her parents were chemists, and her mother, who held a PhD in Chemistry but was not permitted to work after her marriage, encouraged her to earn a PhD.^[2] She fled the Nazis as a young teen.^[3] She graduated from Smith College in 1942, and then worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York until the end of the Second World War.

With the help of her supervisor at the bank, she was admitted to the PhD program in economics at Harvard Univers Eva Müller - IMDb WOXY