Ruth P. Mack Dies at Age 99

Ruth Prince Mack, a member of the NBER's research staff in New York City from the 1940s through the 1960s, died in early March. She was 99 years old.

Mack was the author of a Technical Paper in 1954 titled Factors Influencing Consumption: An Experimental Analysis of Shoe Buying. Her other work at the NBER was the two Studies in Business Cycles that she wrote and which were published in 1956 and 1967, respectively: Consumption and Business Fluctuations: A Case Study of the Shoe, Leather, Hide Sequence and Information, Expectations, and Inventory Fluctuations: A Study of Materials Stock on Hand and on Order.