Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Winter 2009 Published three times annually by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Managing Your Career Post-Tenure Introduction Managing Your Career as Sometimes Even Negotiation Keeping Careers on Track while by Fiona Scott-Morton an Economist after Tenure Professors Forget to Ask Engaging in International Research page 3 by Robert E. Hall by Linda C. Babcock by Christopher R. Udry page 4 page 6 page 8 2008 RepOrt of the COMMITTEE on the CONTENTS Status of WOMEN in the CSWEP Board, Directory page 2 ECONOMICS PROFESSION From the Chair page 2 Bell & Bennett Awards pages 1, 15 The Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession was established 2008 CSWEP Report pages 1, 10–14 by the American Economic Association to Feature Articles: Managing monitor the status of women in the pro- Your Career Post-Tenure pages 3–9 CSWEP Board Member Amy Schwartz presents Carolyn fession and to engage in other efforts to Shaw Bell Award plaque to winner Anne Carter. CeMENT Mentoring Workshops promote the advancement of women in page 15 economics. This report presents results Carter and Finkelstein from our annual survey of economics CSWEP Sessions at the 2009 departments, a supplemental survey of Win CSWEP Awards Eastern Economic Association Meeting page 16 economists in the top twenty business schools and CSWEP’s activities over the Anne Carter has been awarded the 2008 CSWEP Sessions at the Midwest past year. Carolyn Shaw Bell Award and Amy Economic Association Meeting Finkelstein has been awarded the 2008 page 16–17 Data on Women Economists Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Call for Papers page 17 The 2008 CSWEP surveys were sent to Anne Carter is Fred C. Hecht Professor 123 economics departments with doctoral Emerita of Economics at Brandeis Uni- Session Summaries available online programs and 145 non-Ph.D. departments. versity. The author of several books and Published Sessions page 18 continued on page 10 dozens of academic articles, she has made important contributions to the study of in- Brag Box page 18 put-output analysis and productivity. She Nominations Sought page 19 REGIONAL CeMENT is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the Membership Form page 19 Econometric Society, and of the Union MENTORING Upcoming Regional Meetings of Concerned Scientists, a member of the back cover appLIcatIOns Advisory Board on the Future of Work of now AVAILABLE details on page 15 continued on page 15 DIRECTORY OF CSWEP BOARD MEMBERS From the Chair Barbara M. Fraumeni, Chair Fiona M. Scott Morton The AEA Meetings in San Francisco in University of Southern Maine Professor of Economics and Strategy Muskie School of Public Service Yale School of Management January were great! Many of you visited Wishcamper Center Box 208200 the CSWEP hospitality room or attended PO Box 9300 New Haven, CT 06520-8200 Portland, ME 04104-9300 (203) 432-5569 the reception crowded with CSWEP associ- [email protected] Fax: (203) 432-6974 ates and CeMENT/CCOFFE alumnae. We [email protected] Joan G. Haworth, will get a bigger space next year! Both the Donations Chair Patricia C. Mosser Carolyn Shaw Bell Award and the Elaine ERS Group Senior Vice President Bennett Research Prize were given out, 4901 Tower Court Markets Group Tallahassee, FL 32303 Federal Reserve Bank of New York to Anne Carter and Amy Finklestein re- (850) 562-1211 33 Liberty Street spectively. Referring to the Bennett prize, FAX (850) 562-3838 New York, NY 10045 [email protected] (212) 720-6416 because in 2007 Susan Athey became the Fax: (212) 720-2947 first woman to win the John Bates Clark Medal, I asserted a new funda- Debra A. Barbezat Trading desk: (212)720-6860/6880 Colby College [email protected] mental rule at the CSWEP Business Meeting. Since the Bennett prize now 5239 Mayflower Hill predicts the Clark Medal, and the Clark Medal predicts the Nobel prize, by Waterville, Maine 04901-8852 Ron Oaxaca 207-859-5239 McClelland Professor transitivity the Bennett prize now predicts the Nobel prize. We also spon- [email protected] University of Arizona sored 6 sessions at the meetings. I’m happy to report that due to the hard McClelland Hall, Room 401QQ Linda A. Bell, CSWEP East PO Box 210108 work of Lisa Lynch CSWEP is continuing to have two May American Economics Department Tucson, AZ 85721-0108 Economic Review papers and proceedings sessions. These sessions with Haverford College (520) 621.4135 the titles of the published papers are listed later in the newsletter; congrat- 370 Lancaster Avenue [email protected] Haverford, PA 19041-1392 ulations to the authors who have won this honor! (610) 896-1253 Martha L. Olney, CSWEP West In writing the CSWEP annual report, which is included in this newsletter, Fax: (610) 896-1041 University of California [email protected] Department of Economics I realized that it has been ten years since David Warsh, then the economist 549 Evans Hall, #3880 columnist for the Boston Globe, featured some of the CSWEP survey sta- Kaye G. Husbands Fealing Berkeley CA 94720-3880 CSWEP Midwest 510-642-6083 (o) tistics in his column. A retrospective is on my list of things to do. Visiting Professor [email protected] Department chairs and senior faculty, bring to the attention of junior Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of women in your department the opportunity to participate in the region- Public Affairs Rohini Pande University of Minnesota John F. Kennedy School of al CeMENT mentoring workshop, to be held just before the Southern 164 Humphrey Center Government Economic Association Meetings. Applications are due by April 1st; de- Minneapolis, MN 55455 Mailbox 46 (612) 624-6449 79 JFK Street tails about the application process and the program are included later in Cambridge, MA 02138 [email protected] this newsletter. Also, consider bringing a senior woman on-campus, sup- (617) 384-5267 Donna Ginther [email protected] plementing travel expenses with funds the Joan Haworth Mentoring Fund. Department of Economics Everyone, check out the call for abstracts for the Southern Economic University of Kansas Amy Ellen Schwartz Professor of Public Policy, Education Association Meetings. Summerfield Hall and Economics Lawrence, KS 66045-7585 It is that time of the year when some Board members step-down and Wagner School of Public Service [email protected] New York University others join. Join me in thanking Karine Moe from Macalester College, Julie Hotchkiss, CSWEP South 295 Lafayette Street Anna Paulson from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Dick Startz Research Department New York, NY 10012 from the University of Washington for their service on the Board. New Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (212) 998 - 7461/7405 1000 Peachtree Street N.E. [email protected] Board members include Kaye Husbands Fealing from the University of Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4470 Minnesota, Rohini Pande from Harvard University, and Ron Oaxaca from 404-498-8198 [email protected] the University of Arizona. —Barbara M. Fraumeni CSWEP NEWSLETTER STAFF Barbara M. Fraumeni, Editor Fiona Scott-Morton, Co-Editor Deb Arbique, Assistant Editor Debra Barbezat, Oversight Editor Leda Black, Graphic Designer What is CSWEP? CSWEP (the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession) is a standing committee of the AEA (American Economics Association). It was founded in 1971 to monitor the position of women in the economics profession and to undertake activities to improve that position. Our thrice yearly newsletters are one of those activities. See our website at www.cswep.org for more information on what we are doing. In the CSWEP hospitality suite at the recent AEA Meetings in San Francisco. 2 CSWEP Newsletter Winter 2009 Feature Articles Managing Your Career Post-Tenure Introduction by Fiona Scott-Morton, Yale University he articles that follow all address aspects of managing an Tacademic career post-tenure. I asked the authors to con- sider the case of someone who already knows how to write good research papers, has focused on doing that, and has succeeded in getting tenure. Now that our hypothetical pro- fessor is more senior, she will be asked to participate in a range of new activities. Many of these will drive her career forward, but they all take time. She wants to make choices that enhance her sta- tus in the profession and her department or professional school, and then get appropriate credit—whether in salary, rank, outside offers, students, or office lo- cation—for those accomplishments. In “Managing Your Career as an Economist after Tenure” Bob Hall writes about the many activities other than research that are both time-consuming, but poten- tially valuable for a senior faculty member. The theme that persists in his advice is that a focus on the fundamentals of good, active research continues to be nec- essary—no matter what else a faculty member takes on. In “Sometimes Even Negotiation Professors Forget to Ask,” Linda Babcock describes her research that finds that women do not negotiate as often or as successfully as men.I f you have accomplishments and activities that are valuable to your department or school, do not expect to be compensated automatically. You will likely have to ask for the reward for your efforts; the article describes how to do that and offers resources to improve negotiation skills. Lastly, in “Keeping careers on track while engaging in international research,” Chris Udry shares some thoughts on managing a re- search agenda that involves substantial travel—e.g. field research in developing countries—while simultaneously sustaining other professional and personal obli- gations and activities.