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Biography of Emily Greene Balch

Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, pacifist, and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1946.

She was born into a prosperous lawyer's family. After graduating from a private women's college in 1889, she continued her independent study of sociology. With a grant from her college, she studied economics at the Sorbonne in 1890-1891, resulting in the publication of her work "Public Assistance of the Poor in France" in 1893.

Emily greene balch biography of christopher

Balch attended courses at Harvard and the University of Chicago, and then dedicated another year to the study of economics at the University of Berlin.

In 1896, she began teaching at Wellesley College, becoming a professor of economics and sociology in 1913.

In addition to her teaching career, Balch also held various government and municipal positions. She served on state commissions on