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'{{Short description|American economist (born 1970)}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Heather Boushey | image = Heather M. Boushey, CEA Member.jpg | caption = Official portrait, 2021 | office = [[Council of Economic Advisers|Member of the Council of Economic Advisers]] | president = [[Joe Biden]] | term_start = January 20, 2021 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Tyler Goodspeed]] | successor = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1970}} | birth_place = [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | party = | spouse = [[Todd Tucker]] | education = [[Hampshire College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[The New School]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) }} '''Heather Marie Boushey'''<ref name="nyt marriage">[[The New York Times]]. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801EEDE1130F932A35757C0A9619C8B63 ''Weddings/Celebrations; Heather Boushey, Todd Tucker''], accessed August 25, 2011.</ref> (born 1970) is an American [[economist]]. Boushey currently serves as a member of President [[Joe Biden]]'s [[Council of Economic Advisers]].<ref name="auto1">{{Cite news|last=Lederer|first=Katy|date=August 28, 2020|title=A Gen-X Adviser to Biden Argues Equality Is Good for Growth|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/business/heather-boushey-biden-economic-inequality.html|access-date=September 13, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="BidenAppointed">{{cite web |title=Economy Nominees and Appointees |url=https://buildbackbetter.gov/nominees-and-appointees/economy/ |website=President-Elect Joe Biden |access-date=November 30, 2020}}</ref> She also serves as the Chief Economist for the Invest in America Cabinet at the [[White House]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=House |first=The White |date=2023-02-14 |title=President Biden Announces Key Members of his Economic Team |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/02/14/president-biden-announces-key-members-of-his-economic-team/ |access-date=2023-07-15 |website=The White House |language=en-US}}</ref> She previously was the president and CEO of the [[Center for American Progress#Washington Center for Equitable Growth|Washington Center for Equitable Growth]]. She has also worked as an economist at the [[Center for American Progress]] and the [[United States Congress Joint Economic Committee]]. ==Early life and education== Boushey was born in [[Seattle]] and grew up in [[Mukilteo, Washington|Mukilteo]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]].<ref name="BousheyAuto">{{cite book |last1=Boushey |first1=Heather |title=Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict |date=April 19, 2016 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-96862-2 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gToADAAAQBAJ&dq=heather+Boushey+mukilteo&pg=PA3 |access-date=2 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref> She earned her bachelor's degree from [[Hampshire College]] and her Ph.D. in economics from [[The New School for Social Research]].<ref name="nyt marriage" /> ==Career== Boushey's work focuses on the relation between [[Income inequality in the United States|inequality]] and [[economic growth]].<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Hunnicutt|first1=Trevor|last2=Volcovici|first2=Valerie|last3=Shalal|first3=Andrea|date=2020-11-30|title=Biden set to name senior members of economic team possibly as soon as Monday|language=en|work=[[Reuters]]|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-biden-advisers-idUSKBN28A07J|access-date=2020-12-03|quote=Boushey is known for research focusing on how inequality can hinder economic growth.}}</ref> She previously served as an economist for the [[Center for American Progress]], the [[United States Congress Joint Economic Committee]], the [[Center for Economic and Policy Research]], and the [[Economic Policy Institute]]. She currently sits on the board of the Opportunity Institute and is an associate editor of ''[[Feminist Economics (journal)|Feminist Economics]]'' and a senior fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic and Policy Analysis at the [[The New School for Social Research|New School for Social Research]]. Boushey was previously a Research Affiliate with the National Poverty Center at the [[Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy]] and was on the editorial review board of [[WorkingUSA]] and the Journal of Poverty. She has testified before the [[U.S. Congress]] and authored numerous reports and commentaries on issues affecting working families, including the implications of the 1996 [[welfare reform]]. She is a co-author of ''The State of Working America 2002–3'' and ''Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families''. Boushey was announced as chief economist on the Clinton-Kaine transition following the [[2016 Democratic National Convention|Democratic National Convention]] in July 2016.<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|last1=Schroeder|first1=Robert|date=2016-08-17|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/clinton-taps-inequality-expert-boushey-as-her-transition-teams-chief-economist-2016-08-16|title=Clinton taps inequality expert as her transition team's chief economist|work=[[MarketWatch]]}}</ref> In 2019, she published ''Unbound: How Economic Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It'', which was called "outstanding" and "piercing" by reviewers and named one of the best economics books of 2019 by [[Martin Wolf]] of the ''[[Financial Times]]'' and ''[[MIT Technology Review]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wolf |first=Martin |date=December 3, 2019 |title=Best books of 2019: Economics |newspaper=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/39d5bd82-0bf5-11ea-bb52-34c8d9dc6d84 |url-access=subscription |access-date=January 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2019/10/16/the-distressing-growth-of-wealth-inequality-of-boomers/|title=The Distressing Growth Of Wealth Inequality Of Boomers|last=Eisenberg|first=Richard|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614993/the-years-best-books-on-the-economy-we-live-in/|title=The best books in 2019 on the economy we live in|last=Rotman|first=David|website=MIT Technology Review|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2020}}</ref> She is also the author of ''Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict'' and a co-editor of ''[[After Piketty|After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality]]'', a volume of 22 essays about how to integrate inequality into economic thinking. In August 2020, Boushey was featured in a ''[[New York Times]]'' article focusing on her role in the [[Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign|Biden presidential campaign]] and the work that she and Equitable Growth have been doing in the wake of [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]]. Shortly after Biden's victory in November 2020, it was announced that Boushey would serve as a member of Biden's [[Council of Economic Advisers]].<ref name="auto1" /><ref name="BidenAppointed" /> === Analysis of women's participation in the labor force === In response to a series of articles in the ''[[New York Times]]'' that claimed that highly educated women were dropping out of the labor force because of "the motherhood movement", Boushey published results of [[econometric analysis]] that showed that the opposite was true and that these women, along with women and workers in the economy as a whole, were merely suffering the effects of the U.S. recession and [[jobless recovery]].<ref name="NYT 2008">{{cite news |last1=Uchitelle |first1=Louis |title=Economy drives women out of U.S. workforce |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/business/worldbusiness/22iht-jobs.4.14695747.html |access-date=September 2, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=July 22, 2008}}</ref> [[Bureau of Labor Statistics]] economists Emy Sok and Sharon Cohany found that, in 2005, the participation rate of married mothers with preschoolers was 60%, about 4 percentage points lower than its peak in 1997 and 1998.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Emy|last1=Sok|first2=Sharon R.|last2=Cohany|url=http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2007/02/art2full.pdf|title=Trends in labor force participation of married mothers of infants|journal=[[Monthly Labor Review]]|date=February 2007}}</ref> Economist Saul Hoffman found that, between 1984 and 2004, the presence of children has had a smaller negative impact on the labor force participation of all women aged 25–44 years. This finding confirms Boushey's report of a declining child penalty. However, this effect varies greatly by marital status: The labor force participation rate of ''single'' mothers aged 25–44 years increased 9 percentage points between 1993 and 2000, while the rate for single women aged 25–44 years with children aged 5 years or younger jumped a full 14 percentage points over the same period. In contrast, the labor force participation rate for ''married'' mothers increased 1 percentage point, and the rate for married women with children aged 5 years or younger was flat.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Saul D.|last=Hoffman|url=http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2009/02/art1full.pdf|title=The changing impact of marriage and children on women's labor force participation|journal=[[Monthly Labor Review]]|date=February 2009}}</ref> === Response from staff === After Boushey's role in the Biden administration was announced, [[Claudia Sahm]], a former employee at Equitable Growth, accused her of mismanagement. Sahm claimed that she had been pushed out of her job after publishing a blog post regarding [[racism]], [[sexism]], and [[elitism]] in economics that Boushey took issue with. Equitable Growth denied Sahm's account. Documents in the [[Podesta emails]] mention that five former staff members cited Boushey's management as a factor in their resignations. One colleague described Boushey as "phenomenally incompetent as a manager" and others have alleged she was prone to verbal outbursts.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-12-02|title=Biden CEA Pick Heather Boushey Criticized by Former Staffer|language=en|work=Bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-02/biden-cea-pick-boushey-criticized-by-former-staffer-sahm|access-date=2020-12-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Biden top economic adviser facing accusations of mismanagement, verbal abuse|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/02/biden-economic-adviser-heather-boushey-mismanagement-442408|access-date=2020-12-03|website=POLITICO|date=December 2, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> == Personal life == On March 31, 2007, Boushey married [[Todd Tucker]],<ref name="nyt marriage" /> formerly research director of the [[Global Trade Watch]] division of [[Public Citizen]], who specializes in the legal, economic, and political consequences of [[trade agreement]]s, including the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA). ==Selected publications== *{{Cite book|last1=Boushey|first1=Heather|title=Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict|isbn=978-0-674-24149-7|year=2016|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|oclc=1090007320}} *{{Cite book|last1=Boushey|first1=Heather|title=Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do About It|isbn=978-0-674-91931-0|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2019|oclc=1090012216}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}} * {{C-SPAN}} * {{Google Scholar id}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Boushey, Heather}} [[Category:1970 births]] [[Category:21st-century American economists]] [[Category:American women economists]] [[Category:Center for American Progress people]] [[Category:Economists from New York (state)]] [[Category:Economists from Washington (state)]] [[Category:Hampshire College alumni]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Mukilteo, Washington]] [[Category:Scientists from Seattle]] [[Category:The New School alumni]] [[Category:United States Council of Economic Advisers]] [[Category:21st-century American women]]'