Ann Dryden Witte

Ann Dryden Witte (born August 28, 1942) is an American economist, known for her work on "a variety of interesting and eclectic problems" and as a "prolific author of books, monographs, and professional articles".[1] She is a professor emerita of economics at Wellesley College,[2] and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[3]

Education and career

Ann Dryden was born in Oceanside, New York, the daughter of a husband-wife team that ran a used machinery business on Long Island.[1] She graduated from the University of Florida in 1963, majoring in political science and history, and earned a master's degree in economics at Columbia University in 1965.[1][4] In 1969, as a graduate student at North Carolina State University, she married Leo Witte.[1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1971 in economics, with a minor in oceanography.[4] Her dissertation was Employment in the Manufacturing Sector of Developing Economies: A Study of Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.[4][5] During this time she worked as an economic and systems analyst in the federal government from 1963 to 1967, and then as an instructor at Tougaloo College and North Carolina State University.[4]

After finishing her doctorate, she joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina, where she remained until 1985. She became an associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1984, and moved from North Carolina to Wellesley in 1985. In 1987 and 1988 she also held a position as Fellow in Law and Economics at the Harvard Law School.[4]

She chaired the Child Care Policy Research Consortium from 1999 to 2000.[4]

Books

Witte is the author or coauthor of:

• Taxpayer Compliance: An Agenda for Research (with Jeffrey A. Roth and John T. Scholz, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989)[6]
• Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models (with Peter Schmidt, Springer-Verlag, 1988)[7]
• An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice: Theory, Methods, and Applications (with Peter Schmidt, Academic Press, 1984)[8]
• Beating the System: The Underground Economy (with Carl Simon, Auburn House, 1982)[9]

She is also a co-author on several book-length government reports.[4]

Recognition

Witte is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology, the American Statistical Association, and the Royal Statistical Society.[4]

References

1. Cicarelli, James; Cicarelli, Julianne (2003), "Ann Dryden Witte (1942– )", Distinguished Women Economists, Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 226–229, ISBN 9780313303319
2. "Ann Witte, Professor Emerita of Economics", Economics Faculty & Staff, Wellesley College, retrieved 2017-11-14
3. Ann Dryden Witte, National Bureau of Economic Research, retrieved 2017-11-14
4. Curriculum Vitae (PDF), January 13, 2006, retrieved 2017-11-14
5. Sullivan, William M. (1988), Dissertations and Theses on Venezuelan Topics, 1900-1985, Scarecrow Press, pp. 69–70, ISBN 9780810820173
6. Review of Taxpayer Compliance:
   • Long, Susan B.; Swingen, Judyth A. (1991), Law & Society Review, 25 (3): 637–684, doi:10.2307/3053731, JSTOR 3053731
7. Reviews of Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models:
   • Land, Kenneth C. (March 1989), Contemporary Sociology, 18 (2): 245–246, doi:10.2307/2074102, JSTOR 2074102
   • Wilkins, Leslie T. (Winter 1990), The British Journal of Criminology, 30 (1): 112–113, doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047972, JSTOR 23638245
8. Reviews of An Economic Analysis of Crime and Justice:
   • McGahey, Richard (Autumn 1984), American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 9 (4): 869–887, doi:10.1086/492088, JSTOR 828372
   • Berk, Richard A. (September 1985), Contemporary Sociology, 14 (5): 590–591, doi:10.2307/2069522, JSTOR 2069522
   • Flinn, Christopher J. (March 1986), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81 (393): 250, JSTOR 2287999
   • Gelfand, Alan E. (March 1986), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 81 (393): 250–251, JSTOR 2288000
9. Reviews of Beating the System:
   • Somers, Harold M. (November 1982), Policy Sciences, 15 (1): 87–89, doi:10.1007/bf00143371, JSTOR 4531922, S2CID 189828415
   • Mayhew, Anne (March 1983), Implementing Governmental Change, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 466, Sage Publications, Inc., American Academy of Political and Social Science, pp. 244–245, JSTOR 1044790
   • Gutmann, Peter M. (March 1983), Journal of Economic Literature, 21 (1): 117–120, JSTOR 2724774
   • Noel, Thomas J. (Summer 1983), The Business History Review, 57 (2): 283–284, doi:10.2307/3114365, JSTOR 3114365, S2CID 156688776