Yellen is married to George Akerlof, an economist, 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Yellen and Akerlof first crossed paths at the Fed in the fall of 1977 and married in June 1978, less than a year after meeting. They have one child, a son named Robert who was born in 1981. Robert Akerlof, now an economist himself, graduated summa cum laude with special distinction from Yale University with a degree in economics and mathematics in 2003 and received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2009. He works as an associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick.