Carol Stine Carson is an American economic statistician, the former director of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and former director of statistics at the International Monetary Fund.
[1] Carol Stine did her undergraduate studies at the College of Wooster,[1] graduating in 1961, and was vice president of the political science honor society Pi Sigma Alpha there.
[1] Her dissertation, The History of the United States Income and Product Accounts: The Development of an Analytical Tool, was written under the supervision of John Whitefield Kendrick in 1971, and concerned "the history of national accounts in the U.S.".
It followed Kendrick in treating these accounts as an increasingly-honed "tool for macroeconomic analysis".
Before becoming its director, she was also chief statistician there, and editor-in-chief of their journal, Survey of Current Business.