Personal Life
Yellen is Jewish, and is married to George Akerlof, a Nobel prize-winning economist and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Her son, Robert Akerlof was a postdoctoral associate in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is now an assistant professor at the University of Warwick.
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