Featured Researcher: Ray C. Fair
Ray C. Fair was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors last fall, representing Yale University. He has been a professor of economics at Yale's Cowles Foundation since 1979.
Fair has a B.A. from Fresno State College and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He was an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University from 1968-74. He then joined Yale's faculty as an associate professor, a title he held from 1974-9. He was also a visiting associate professor at MIT in 1977.
Fair's main research is in macroeconometrics, but he has also done work in the areas of finance, voting behavior, and aging in sports.
Fair lives in New Haven with his wife, Sharon Oster, who is also an economist. They have three children, at least one of whom is going into the family business. Fair is an avid runner and is desperately trying to get back on his aging regression line.
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