Dr. Linda Bell
Affiliated Academic
Education
PhD in economics, Harvard University
BA, magna cum laude, with Honors in economics, University of Pennsylvania
Experience
Dr. Bell is a Special Consultant in NERA's Employment & Labor Practice, based in the Philadelphia office.
In addition to her work at NERA, Dr. Bell is a Professor of Economics at Haverford College. Her most recent research has focused on the impact of firm and industry structure on executive compensation and gender wage differences, the role of women executives as mentors, wage inequality, changing labor market-work hours intensity, and race/gender issues in the workplace. Dr. Bell has written extensively on US and European employment performance in the 1980s, and her past research interests include employment and unemployment, wage determination and inflation, trade unions, and international labor market performance and behavior.
Dr. Bell's published articles have appeared in Labour Economics, the Federal Reserve Quarterly Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and the Review of Social Economy. She is a Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany (2003 - 2006) and reviews articles for the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, Economic Journal, and the Journal of Development Economics, among others.
Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Bell served as a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and held consulting positions with The World Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and the US Department of Labor. She has taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration at Princeton University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of San Diego, and the Stern School of Business Administration at New York University.
