Allyn Abbott Young

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Allyn Abbott Young
Born	September 19, 1876 Kenton, Ohio, U.S.
Died	March 7, 1929 (1929-03-08) (aged 52) London, England
Academic career
Institution	London School of Economics
Alma mater	Hiram College University of Wisconsin
Doctoral advisor	Walter F. Willcoxl Richard T. Ely
Doctoral students	Frank Knight Edward Sagendorph Mason Edward Chamberlin Nicholas Kaldor

Allyn Abbott Young (September 19, 1876 – March 7, 1929) was an American economist. He was born into a middle-class family in Kenton, Ohio. He died aged 52 in London, his life cut short by pneumonia during an influenza epidemic. He was then at the height of his intellectual powers and current president of Section F of the British Association. Uniquely, Young had also been president of the American Statistical Association (1917) and the American Economic Association (1925).