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Gale Allen Boyd

Associate Research Professor Emeritus in the Social Science Research Institute
Social Science Research Institute
261 Gross Hall, Box 90989, Durham, NC 27708

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Energy Efficiency in Industry: High-tech Glass Manufacturing at Corning Inc. · August 2016 - May 2017 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Energy Efficiency in Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing · August 2014 - May 2015 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Energy Efficiency in Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing · August 2013 - May 2014 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America

Service to the Profession


Editorial Board Member – Energy Efficiency · 2015 Editorial Activities Springer,
Referee various Energy and Applied Economics Journals · 2000 Editorial Activities

European Economic Review, The Energy Journal, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Energy, Energies, Annals of Operations Research, Resource and Energy Economics, Decision Sciences

Academic & Administrative Activities


Director – Triangle Federal Statistical Research Data Center (TRDC)
Management and promotion of the TRDC, a social sciences research user facility operated in collaboration with U.S. Census Bureau dedicated to providing approved researchers access to non-public data for statistical purposes.   Established the Duke University / University of North Carolina / Research Triangle Institute partnership for the TRDC.   

Chairman - Chicago Census Data Research Center (CRDC)
The CRDC is a social sciences research user facility operated in collaboration with The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois-Chicago, and Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.  The board is responsible for coordination of funding for the RDC and project review.  The chairman represents the RDC regarding funding and resources from the five member institutions, oversees the RDC executive director and Census administrator, writes external grant proposals, and promotes the expansion of research using the micro data.