Mary C. Daly is Senior Vice President and Associate Director of Economic Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Mary’s research spans public finance, labor, and welfare economics and she has published widely on topics related to labor market fluctuations, public policy, income inequality and the economic well-being of less advantaged groups. Daly previously served as a visiting scholar with the Congressional Budget Office, as a member of the Social Security Advisory Board’s Technical Panel and the National Academy of Social Insurance Committee on the Privatization of the Social Security Retirement Program. Daly currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Industrial Relations. Daly joined the Federal Reserve as Economist in 1996 after completing a National Institute on Aging postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Syracuse University.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2014.