MacDonald, Maurice (1947 - )

Maurice MacDonald

Morey MacDonald earned an AB in Economics from the University of California-Santa Cruz (1969), and an MS (1971) and PhD (1974) in Economics from the University of Michigan, where he specialized in economic demography and econometrics. From 1973 to 1975 he worked as a project associate at the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, and in the fall of 1974 he was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Economics at UW.

In 1975, MacDonald was given a joint appointment in the Consumer Science program area of FRCS and the Institute for Research on Poverty. His 1977 work Food, Stamps, and Income Maintenance established him as one of the leading authorities on food stamps; other research projects addressed consumers' subjective well-being, family demographic behavior, and poverty and nutrition programs. For several years he directed the Wisconsin Basic Economics Needs Assessment Study for the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services. In 1987, MacDonald received an award for professional excellence from the FRCS Alumni Association.

MacDonald left UW in 1995 to become chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Iowa State University.