Jacob Mincer Award (2017) Francine Dee Blau (born August 29, 1946 in New York City)[2] is an American economist and professor of economics as well as Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

[2] Blau graduated from Forest Hills High School in Queens in 1963, after which she entered Cornell University and received her B.S.

[2] Blau is married to Lawrence M. Kahn, also an economics professor at Cornell University.

[5][6] Before coming to Cornell in 1994, she was an assistant, associate, and professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she joined the faculty in 1975.

[11] She serves or has served on numerous Editorial Boards, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the ILR Review, the Journal of Labor Research, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, among others.