Faith Moors Williams (1893–1958)Шаблон:R was an American economist who became Director of the Office of Foreign Labor Conditions in the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Шаблон:R
Williams graduated from Wellesley College in 1915,Шаблон:R
and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia UniversityШаблон:R in 1924. Her doctoral dissertation was The Food Manufacturing Industries in New York and its Environs: Present Trends and Probable Future Developments.Шаблон:R
She then worked on rural nutrition as an assistant professor in the College of Home Economics at Cornell University,Шаблон:R and assisted with the economic components of the Middletown studies.Шаблон:R
Next, Williams became a senior economist in the Bureau of Home Economics. There, with Carle C. Zimmerman of Harvard University, she coordinated a massive survey of international home living conditions and expenses, published in 1935 as Studies of Family Living in the United States and Other Countries: An Analysis of Material and Method.Шаблон:R
Later, at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with Aryness Joy Wickens and Stella Stewart, Williams became one of the primary people in charge of the BLS cost-of-living index, later to become the United States Consumer Price Index.[1]
Williams' husband was demographer Frank Lorimer, who had studied at Columbia at approximately the same time as she did. They had two children.Шаблон:R
