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“I didn't know one could have any kind of feeling towards Nobel Prize announcements besides indifference but I was actually quite excited...

Claudia Goldin’s win of the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is a turning point for women’s...

In October 2022, there was a #Metoo outcry within the field of economics following publicly revealed allegations of sexual harassment...

There have been 4.5 times the number of “Roberts” to win the Nobel Prize in Economics than women. There have been two women, Elinor...

Questions from students in Bangladesh Young people are showing a piqued curiosity in economics. Specifically, high schoolers in...

We start this article with a task to the reader: Close your eyes and picture an economist. Got someone in mind? Think of one. What or who...

Our reflections on why we chose this discipline: Most often the discourse around being a woman in economics is about the pitfalls. It is...

While much of the future is unknown, Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve named one thing our “uncertain certainty”....

Dear senior U.S. economists, I’m scared. I feel like I’m throwing myself into shark-infested waters. Do you think I’m talking about my...