Ramey received a
BA in
economics and
Spanish from the
University of Arizona in 1981, and a
PhD in economics from
Stanford University in 1987, where her doctoral thesis was supervised by
Robert Hall,
John Taylor and
Steven Durlauf. She was a research assistant and doctoral student at Stanford from 1983 to 1987 before becoming an
assistant professor at the
University of California, San Diego in 1987. She was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, and was elected a
Fellow of the
Econometric Society in 2018. Her research has been cited over 15,000 times according to
Google Scholar, and has been quoted in
CNN, the
New York Times, and the
Wall Street Journal. She was awarded the
R. K. Cho Economics Prize in 2020. She published important works together with her husband
Garey Ramey. == References ==