She studied at
Newnham College, Cambridge, as an undergraduate in the 1920s. In 1930, she received a
Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to go to the US. She spent two years at
Stanford and
Cornell. On her return, she worked at the Agricultural Economic Research Institute of the
University of Oxford, where she remained until 1939. She then returned to Newnham College as a lecturer, and became Director of Studies in Economics. In September 1939, the
Second World War broke out. Shortly after Cohen's return she was called to London for war service at the
Ministry of Food and then at the Board of Trade. At the end of the war, she returned to Cambridge to teach in
economics, a role she held until 1972. She was elected Principal of Newnham College in 1954, Chair of the
Ministry of Agriculture Committee for the Provincial Agricultural Advisory Service in 1962, and was appointed a
CBE in 1969. == Key works ==