Published three times annually by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women news in the Economics Profession. 2019 ISSUE III

IN THISCSWEP ISSUE Interviews with Award Winners Interview with Bell Award Interview with Rohini Pande Winner Rohini Pande by Natalia Rigol ...... 1 Interview with Melissa Dell Natalia Rigol by Nathan Nunn ...... 1. Rohini Pande, Henry J . Heinz II Pro- fessor of Economics and director of FOCUS the Economic Growth Center (EGC) at Academic Career Challenges Yale University, was the recipient of the and Opportunities 2018 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award . Given annually since 1998 by CSWEP, the Rohini Pande Introduction by Abigail Wozniak ...... 3 Bell Award recognizes and honors an individual who has advanced the sta- Harvard Kennedy School of Govern- Do’s and Don’ts at Work tus of women in the economics profes- ment, where she co-founded Evidence and Not by Kala Krishna ...... 3 sion through example, achievements, for Policy Design (EPoD), a research increasing our understanding of how group that collaborates with govern- Building Confidence in the Economics Classroom women can advance in the economics ments to solve policy problems in de- by Ying Zhen ...... 5 profession, or mentoring others . veloping countries . In her new position Before assuming her current posi- at the EGC, she will pursue a research Having Babies while Under the tion at Yale in July of this year, Pande agenda on the role of public policy in Tenure Clock by Alicia Rosburg 6 was the Rafik Harriri Professor of In- providing the poor and disadvantaged Reinventing Yourself at ternational Political Economy at the political and economic power, and how Mid-Career by Prathibha Joshi 7 continues on page 9

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From the Chair Interview with Bennett Prize by Judith Chevalier ...... 2 Winner Melissa Dell Calls, Announcements, and Sessions at Upcoming Meetings ...... 14 years to recognize and honor outstand- ing research in any field of economics Brag Box ...... 15 by a woman not more than seven years Board Member Directory . . . . . 18 Melissa Dell beyond her Ph D. . Professor Dell was recognized for her impressive contri- Nathan Nunn butions to economic development, eco- nomic history, and political economy . Melissa Dell, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, was the recipient of You are originally from a small town the 2018 Elaine Bennett Research Prize . in Oklahoma. It must be rare for some- Established in 1998, the Elaine Bennett one from Enid, Oklahoma, to end up as Research Prize is awarded every two a tenured professor at Harvard. What if continues on page 11

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Judith A. Chevalier, Chair From the Chair Judith A. Chevalier William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Finance School of Management, Congratulations to the recipient of the (organized by Jennifer Doleac and San- Yale University 2019 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, Yan dra Black) . Chen, the Daniel Kahneman Colle- In addition to these research ses- giate Professor of Information in the sions, CSWEP is co-sponsoring a ses- School of Information at the University sion with four other professional Kala Krishna, Professor of Michigan . Professor Chen is a lead- associations on “Women in Econom- of Economics and Liberal Arts Research Professor, ing scholar and former President of the ics-Perspectives and New Initiatives The Pennsylvania State Economic Science Association (ESA) . from Five Professional Associations .” University A participant in the first CSWEP-spon- I will be on this panel along with rep- sored mentoring program (COFFE) in resentatives of other professional asso- Prathibha Joshi, Professor 1998, Professor Chen has paid it for- ciations . On Sunday morning, look out of Economics, Gordon ward by serving as a CeMENT men- for our panel co-hosted with CSMGEP, State College tor and by developing a junior mentor- “Launching a Professional Develop- ing program for the Economic Science ment Initiative: A Conversation among Association . On behalf of the CSWEP Mentoring Veterans, Eager Mentors, Board, I invite you to join us to cele- and Founders of New Mentoring Initia- brate Prof . Chen at the 2020 AEA tives ”. A number of new conferences, Nathan Nunn, Frederic Meetings in San Diego . The award will fellowships and initiatives have been E. Abbe Professor of be presented at the CSWEP Luncheon created to mentor and support diverse Economics, Harvard University and Awards Ceremony on Friday, Janu- economists . Our panel brings together ary 3 . The luncheon will take place from an exciting group of mentoring entre- Natalia Rigol, Assistant 12:30–2:15 pm in San Diego Ballroom C preneurs to discuss opportunities for Professor of Business Administration, Harvard of the Marriott Marquis . At the CSWEP launching new initiatives . Anna Gifty University Luncheon, we will share the 2019 An- Opoku-Agyeman (co-founder of the nual Report on the Status of Women in Sadie Collective), Marie Mora (Direc- the Economics Profession . Register in ad- tor of the AEA Economics Mentoring vance for the luncheon at CSWEP.org . Program), Maya Rossin-Slater (found- Our celebration of Yan Chen will con- er of a mentoring workshop supporting tinue at our CSWEP reception from women graduate students), and Martha Alicia Rosburg, Associate 6:00 to 7:30 pm on Friday, January 3 . Bailey (director of one of CSWEP’s Ce- Professor of Economics and Provost’s Fellow for In addition to the luncheon and MENT mentoring workshops) will all Sustainability, University reception, there will be a full slate of be serving as panelists . This event will of Northern Iowa Abigail Wozniak, Director, CSWEP activities in San Diego and I be on Sunday, January 5 from 10:30 am Opportunity & Inclusive look forward to meeting readers of to 12:15 pm in the Marriott Marquis, Growth Institute, the News at these events . An impor- San Diego Ballroom C . Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis tant CSWEP goal is to showcase the A highlight of the meetings for work of junior economists and to this CSWEP is our mentoring breakfasts for end, we sponsor paper sessions at the junior and mid-career women . These AEA meetings . This year we have three are organized by Sebnem Kalemli-Oz- CSWEP-sponsored sessions on the eco- can, Sandy Black, and Petra Moser . The nomics of gender, including one ses- mentoring breakfasts for junior econ- Ying Zhen, Associate sion on gender and the economics pro- omists will take place Friday, January Professor of Economics, Wesleyan College fession . These sessions were organized 3, and Sunday, January 5, from 8:00– by Jonathan Guryan, Melissa Kearney, 10:00 am . Our breakfast for mid-career and Claudia Olivetti, who report being economists is scheduled for Saturday, CSWEP News Staff impressed by the range and quality of January 4, from 8:00–10:00 am . We en- research submitted for consideration . courage economists within six years of Judith Chevalier, Editor CSWEP is also sponsoring two ses- their Ph .D . as well as graduate students Kate Silz-Carson, Oversight Editor sions on financial globalization (orga- on the job market to pre-register for the Abigail Wozniak, Co-Editor nized by Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan) and breakfast for junior economists . The two sessions on the economics of crime continues on page 13 Leda Black, Graphic Designer 2 CSWEP NEWS FOCUS Academic Career Challenges and Opportunities

Abigail Wozniak In March 2018, I chaired a panel on ac- me post-tenure advice, so I nodded and into their positions as academic econo- ademic career challenges and opportu- didn’t follow up by asking him to ex- mists, making choices about how to al- nities sponsored by CSWEP at the Mid- plain exactly what those options meant . locate time and energy along the way . west Economics Association meetings . I have since regretted my lack of fol- Together, they reflect on different stages The organizers invited panelists to talk low through, but I think I got the idea . of that process . Kala Krishna has sound about how they grew into their careers However, for a while, trying to grow advice for anyone beginning in the eco- as academic economists . both deep and wide became a recipe for nomics profession . Ying Zhen shares a At that point, I had passed more than personal explosion . I could grow deep, number of ways to invest in teaching, an ten years in academia, and I quickly and invest in my field and my research, activity which, for many in academia, is agreed, hoping of course that some of perhaps even new lines of research the biggest component of professional this fantastic discussion would resonate inquiry and more resource intensive life . Alicia Rosburg reflects on the de- for me . Prior to the panel, I’d been lean- questions . Or I could grow wide, and cision to have children while working ing heavily on one conversation I’d had add skills by investing in projects out- towards tenure, and how to navigate with a senior colleague . Shortly after I side of my research . But which skills? that with your institution . And Prat- learned of my promotion, he stopped by There are many to choose from . I think hiba Joshi has many ideas for how to my office to offer his one piece of advice my colleague’s point was that there is continue investing after reaching mid- to happiness after tenure . He told me I no single answer to this . But for longer career . Hearing their perspectives re- should keep growing . Then he said you term career satisfaction, academics will minded me that the process of reach- can grow “this way,” gesturing upward need to make choices about where to ing mid-career, and beyond, is a series with his hands, or “this way,” opening put time and energy . of investments . I hope their essays will his hands wide apart . But he said the I’m excited that my fellow panelists encourage many of you to think about important thing was to keep growing . I have all agreed to share their perspec- what your next professional investment was still stunned that anyone was giving tives on the ways in which they grew will be .

Do’s and Don’ts at Work and Not Kala Krishna

Much of this short discussion is com- heard this question I was surprised be- Maybe discuss them with a few col- mon sense . But, “There is nothing cause it was not a question I ever had . leagues or students beforehand . Talk to more uncommon than common sense .” Then I realized how lucky I was to have participants in the breaks and ask more (Frank Lloyd Wright) absorbed the answer by osmosis . Es- detailed questions one on one . Think What seems like common sense ex pecially in smaller programs, women about their work and do your best to be post might not occur to you ex ante but graduate students have no role models constructive rather than try to show how seems so obvious ex-post . Be warned or mentors to help out . smart you are . Remember, everyone in that there is nothing deep in what I say The answer is: go up to someone the room is smart! Make a good impres- below . Nevertheless, I hope that it will who is not surrounded by people, in- sion, then people want to talk to you! be helpful to you . After being in this troduce yourself, and ask who they are . The second most common question business for a while, I am often asked Ask about their work . No one can re- I get is: How can I speak up without be- questions by young faculty and stu- sist that! It’s amazing what a little hon- ing seen as overbearing? dents . I will use some of these questions est interest and a bit of flattery does to This is a hard one and there is no as a way of navigating this topic . make people open up . At a smaller more easy answer . When women ask ques- The most common question I get is: interactive conference, read the papers tions, even in a conference, often they I go to a conference and I don’t know ahead of time and think about the work are seen as being too aggressive . If anybody, what do I do? The first time I so that you can ask good questions . they don’t ask questions, they are seen

2019 ISSUE III 3 Do’s and Don’ts as passive . Men are rarely, if ever, ac- The world will not come to you. Find what you do better than the rest of cused of being either . Just be yourself the team and do it . Depending on your You need to put yourself out there . Ap- and ask whatever you want to ask and stage of life this will change . Be ready ply for getting your paper on the pro- don’t worry too much about how you to change with it . As a newbie, you may gram at meetings . Even if they don’t are being perceived . There really is not be the one doing the data work and take it, they might invite you . Apply for much you can do about it . Do speak up finding writing hard . As you grow old- jobs you want, both in academics and when you see double standards being er you may find that your time is best out of it - the worst outcome is you won’t applied . How often do we ask whether used writing the model and paper and get it and you are no worse off than not a man’s spouse will be willing to move, managing people, rather than doing the applying . but we usually ask this when a woman data work . Joint work, especially with is involved? You are not superwoman, nor many different people, is not discount- The third most common question is: need you be. ed by much . With more and more com- How do I manage things in a male dom- ponents to most papers, it is often even inated environment? Can I have a life You can have a life and tenure . Hire as necessary to work with people . Discover and get tenure? much help as you need . The best money the joys of working with people you like, Let’s face it: in many fields of eco- you ever spent is on outsourcing what- respect and trust . nomics, women, especially tenured ever household jobs you do not want ones, are few and far between . The to do such as cleaning or laundry . Do Be plugged in. world is not fair (men do not become what you want to do, like spending qual- There is no excuse to be behind the pregnant yet) so here are a few tips for ity time with the family . Don’t do what curve with the internet . The NBER, how to manage in an imperfect world . you think of as a chore and don’t feel CEPR, CES-Ifo and SSRN are good plac- Many of these tips are equally relevant guilty about it . Did you not learn about es to look for access to the latest work- for men . comparative advantage and opportunity ing papers . Most universities have insti- cost? Even if you are the one responsible tutional access to them . People see what they expect. for running the house, do it efficiently . Ask for help. Be there a lot, at least to begin with . Get Networks matter. a reputation for being a hard worker . Your colleagues are an immense re- Once people are sold on that, they will Offer to run the seminar series . Invit- source . No one knows everything . Hap- not miss you when you are not around . ing people to give a seminar often gets pily admit to complete ignorance and They will just expect you are somewhere you a seminar invitation . You will need ask for their help . Learn from them . It’s else in the building! letter writers all your life . Networks re- a lot easier than digging through an area ally do matter . Knowing who is looking you are unfamiliar with . Attend a gradu- People have priors. to hire for what or which conferences ate class as often as you can . It is a fun They expect women to be out of the are going on is a huge plus . The inter- and easy way to catch up and most col- office for personal reasons more than net has made it easier to keep up, but leagues are happy to let you come . men . Don’t explain . If you need to drop not everyone uses the tools available . I the kids somewhere, say you have an have two tips . First, by going to www. Reference appointment . Do not say you have to nber.org/~confer you can get the entire Garicano, Luis . “Hierarchies and the drop the kids . It’s none of their busi- list of NBER conferences going on and organization of knowledge in produc- ness anyway . the programs and paper links . Keep up tion .” Journal of Political Economy 108, to date easily by looking for conferences no . 5 (2000): 874-904 . Being sociable is part of the job. in your area . Second, conferencemaker A lot of ideas, opportunities and poten- is the leading software to organize con- tial coauthored work comes from just ferences . Go to https://editorialexpress. talking over a beer or dinner . If you are com/cgi-bin/conference/cm.cgi to get a uncomfortable going out one on one list of upcoming conferences using the after a long day at the computer, add software and submit! someone to the group so you feel hap- Leverage your skills. pier about it . Don’t isolate yourself from your colleagues as it is likely there will Take Garicano’s (2000) hierarchies be very few women faculty wherever work to heart . Even if you could do ev- you go . erything yourself, delegate to leverage your skills . Find good people to work with . Work with students . Use RA help .

4 CSWEP NEWS Building Confidence in the Ying Zhen Economics Classroom

I am a tenured Associate Professor of class meeting of an undergraduate in- my more than seven years of teaching at Economics at Wesleyan College . Found- tro-level economics class, I make a point Wesleyan, I have taught six completely ed in 1836, Wesleyan College is the of saying a few encouraging words . For different groups of students: traditional first women’s liberal arts college in the example, I might say, “I hope we will undergraduates (day program), EMBA world . work as a team and have fun in this program (graduate-level), nontradition- During my more than seven years of class by discussing many interesting al undergraduates (evening program), teaching at Wesleyan, I have observed issues .” I continue to provide encour- GEICO program (for its employees), that many female students, especially agement throughout the semester . If the dual-degree program (a partnered those who are new to economics, are an exam is around the corner, I wish program with Guangzhou University intimidated at the beginning of the se- them good luck and encourage them to in China), and the online/hybrid pro- mester by the numbers and graphs in work harder, but also work to create a gram . These diverse groups of students the textbooks . This observation, along pleasant atmosphere . For example, I of- require up-to-date teaching techniques . with the large fraction (25%) of inter- ten send my students a group email the Stimulating their interest in eco- national students in my courses, makes night before the exam saying “Studying nomics is key to teaching students from effective teaching a very important part hard is good, but at the same time, take very diverse backgrounds . To do this, I of my job . it easy! I believe you will do a great job usually start my lecture with a real life I believe effective economics pro- tomorrow .” example . I then present the theory be- fessors should do well in two respects . In my first two years of teaching at hind it . To further stimulate students’ First, they should help students build Wesleyan, preparing classes was my interests in the topics, in the intro-level confidence at the very beginning . In life . My estimated average preparation classes, I encourage them to read Wall particular, building confidence among time for a new fifty-minute class was Street Journal, New York Times, or Busi- female students and getting them inter- eight to ten hours . This painstaking ness Week on a regular basis, and then ested in economics should be our pri- process made me grow as a professor . present the articles in class with their ority . Secondly, they should serve as a More importantly, it made me very con- own analyses . In upper-level classes, good guide for students . It is the pro- fident when I was standing in front of to push students to reach their full po- fessor’s responsibility to use creative students and answering their questions . tential, I often assign them journal pa- ways to stimulate students’ interests, Although I no longer have as many new pers and then have discussions about help them better understand the ma- preps, I still spend a significant amount them in class . I consider it a good way terials, and illustrate how to apply text- of time preparing for my courses . In ad- to bring students to the academic rigor book knowledge to real life . Effective dition, I enthusiastically attend econom- of economics . To make them more con- teaching requires instructors to adopt ics teaching workshops to further pol- fident to read these challenging papers, the most appropriate teaching methods ish my teaching skill . Although it would I often tell them that I actually spend and strategies for their audience and be very easy to recycle my old courses, much more time reading these papers the topic . The four things that I focus I feel it is my responsibility to present than them in order to grasp the motiva- on in my teaching are being encourag- students the updated materials in order tion and main ideas . ing and enthusiastic with my students, to keep up with the times and advance Using different technologies to teach class preparation, tailoring my teach- with my students side by side . I believe economics class is a helpful way to en- ing to the audience in order to stimu- that one can really have full confidence gage students in and after class . I espe- late their interest, and using different and enjoy the process of teaching after cially love using humorous video clips teaching methods . teaching the course with your full effort to stimulate students’ interest in eco- It’s important for a professor to re- for at least ten times . nomics . Using funny videos such as alize how influential they can be at the However, building students’ con- one about Kopi Luwak coffee (which is very beginning of a semester . We pro- fidence in economics is only the first made from coffee beans that have been fessors should always convey a positive step . As economics is application orient- partially digested by the Asian palm civ- tone to the students, not only at the be- ed, it seems to be an art to use easy and et), can stimulate students’ enthusiasm . ginning but also throughout the whole creative ways to stimulate students’ in- Using videos also helps me to present class . To build students’ confidence in terests, help them better understand the the textbook materials in a more orga- economics, I try to be a very easy-going materials, and illustrate how to apply nized and creative way . and approachable professor . In the first textbook knowledge to real life . During 2019 ISSUE III 5 Having Babies while Alicia Rosburg Under the Tenure Clock

I did the unadvisable . I had children options” were during my dissertation also connected me with a female fac- (yes, plural) while under the tenure writing phase or in the early years of my ulty member outside my department clock . My first pregnancy was during tenure clock . We quickly realized that who had recently had children . What the second year of my tenure clock and we were not ready for children during I discovered was a bit disheartening . my second pregnancy was during my my graduate studies . This meant option Beyond the Family and Medical Leave fifth year . I hope that my experience pro- two—having our first child early in my Act (FMLA), there was little consisten- vides useful tips and advice for those tenure-track—was in play . cy in maternity arrangements . I learned considering parenthood in academia In what was also a typically unad- that the conditions depended on your and insight to others within the profes- visable decision, I accepted a position Dean, Department Head, requirements sion who may mentor those facing cir- from the University of Northern Iowa of your position, and what I ultimate- cumstances similar to mine . (my undergraduate alma mater) before ly determined was most important— My husband and I married the sum- I finished my dissertation . The position timing of the pregnancy . Part of me mer before I started my PhD program . came with an agreement that I would be appreciated that the university didn’t We naively discussed children and an instructor for the first year while I impose a homogenous solution to het- blissfully decided that the best “timing completed my dissertation, and my ten- erogeneous situations, but it wasn’t very ure clock began the following year after helpful for my “information gathering” my dissertation was complete . exploration . Building Confidence Although many women are encour- This brings me to my first piece of Another technology is the use of aged to wait until tenured (or at least advice . Do not let others influence your games . I use the fishing game to teach until tenure seems well in-hand) to decision to have children or the tim- the Tragedy of the Commons Theo- have children, my husband and I were ing of your children. Given my people- ry . Using a combination of online and not willing to make this sacrifice . We pleasing trait, I put a lot of internal pres- classroom versions of the fishing game realized, however, that we hadn’t fully sure on myself to time my pregnancy can help students learn about how pur- thought through all the details of how conveniently for my department . I did suing their self-interest can have nega- our professional lives would be affected . not want my choice to start a family to tive effects on the group’s welfare . The I tend to be an organized person who unduly impact my colleagues . We are online version of fishing game helps needs a well-detailed plan; I am also a a fairly small department in a location students understand the difference be- people pleaser . The issue I faced in try- that has a limited supply of people quali- tween private goods and public goods . ing to plan how pregnancy might affect fied to serve as adjuncts . If I were un- The classroom version of the game my career was a lack of precedent . Our able to teach a class due to a maternity can further stimulate students’ think- department had never had a pregnant leave, my colleagues would likely have ing about the importance of property female tenure-track faculty member . had to take on an overload . Therefore, I rights . It also stimulates their enthusi- Being a planner and an economist went through a lot of effort (despite my asm and helps me to teach in a more who believes that information usually husband telling me it was irrational) to creative way . improves decision-making, I sat down time my pregnancies to fit the academic The first goal of my teaching is to with my department head and was fully calendar . Both of our children had the begin by making students confident open about our decision to start a family . exact same due date at the end of May . about themselves, equip them with ba- I was fortunate that I had a relationship I was able to waddle through the spring sic knowledge in principles of econom- with my department head that allowed semester and take summer breaks as ics, and show them ways that help them me to be candid; he was extremely sup- my maternity leaves . explore the field . At the advanced level, portive and excited for us . Despite hav- At the time, I was proud that I timed my second goal is to develop their eco- ing experience in almost any other situ- my children so well . In hindsight, I nomics journal article reading skills, es- ation—he had been at UNI for over 40 don’t believe it was necessarily a good pecially empirical economics journal ar- years and our department head for over long-run decision . Due to our teaching ticles that test the textbook knowledge 20 years—he had zero experience with loads, most of my department uses the that have learned . Ultimately, my goal maternity situations . He wisely recom- summer to catch up on research . By is for students to enjoy learning eco- mended that I talk to another depart- timing my children for the summer, nomics and appreciate its beauty . I hope ment head for information . A colleague I gave up two of my most productive these tips help you to achieve this goal, too! 6 CSWEP NEWS Having Babies research blocks during my tenure clock . When I decided to go up for tenure on Finally, don’t assume your teaching I also gave up potential earnings from my original clock (i .e ., forgo the extra and research will automatically suffer summer research grants . Most impor- year), I was surprised when there were if you have children. I believe having tantly, however, is the precedent that I questions within my department about children has made me a more effective set for future colleagues . I worry future the interpretation of the form . My de- teacher and efficient researcher . Ask any female faculty members will feel pres- partment head retired the year before, parent, communicating with toddlers sured to time their pregnancy to the ac- and all of our verbal conversations about teaches you how to become more clear ademic calendar because my pregnan- the form left with him . Questions were and concise in your instructions! I am cies are now the precedent . It is hard for raised about whether the work I did in also more compassionate and under- me to put this in writing, but my hus- the “stopped clock” year should count standing while at the same time more band was right . I should not have put towards tenure, and whether by signing confident to have tough conversations undue pressure on myself (and him) to the form, I had contractually signed up with students . A parental perspective time our children . I avoided temporary for a six-year clock and going up on the can make you tougher or softer as need- inconvenience to my department, but it regular five-year clock should require ed . Research-wise, I’ve become more ef- came at a cost to myself and potentially evaluation as someone going up ear- ficient in managing my time and being future colleagues . ly . Although my new department head selective in the research I pursue . I used Second, ask questions and get as was very supportive and these questions to say yes to (almost) everything . Now, much as possible in writing. Ask as were dismissed fairly quickly, the ques- I am more selective and have healthi- many people as you feel comfortable tions caused a lot of temporary stress er bounds on my work schedule . I’ve about previous arrangements, expecta- and frustration . If I had simply sent a heard the phrase “you can’t have it all” tions, policies, etc . to help form your ex- quick email to my department head to many times . I disagree—you can have pectations and decisions . I also encour- confirm the form’s interpretation at the it all, you just may need to redefine “it” . age you to ask multiple people the same time it was signed, I could have saved And, for me, my new “it” is better than questions to see if you get a consistent myself from this stress . I ever imagined . answer . Getting as much as possible in writing is advice for all aspects of aca- demia, not just maternity situations . I was grateful to have a mentor through the Agricultural and Applied Economics Reinventing Yourself at Mid-Career Association (AAEA) that pushed me to get everything in writing . She encour- aged me to follow-up any face-to-face conversation related to my academic ex- Prathibha Joshi pectations with an email to the person difficulty at this stage, one really needs summarizing the conversation and ask- Academia can be very exhausting and to reinvent themselves to make the jour- ing the person to confirm via email that time consuming, counter to the popu- ney more enjoyable . I had interpreted our conversation cor- lar misconception of copious free time The time has come to think out of rectly . If I had listened to her more dili- and little stress due to flexible class the box, to approach old practices with gently early in my career, I would have schedules and “extended vacations .” To new ideas and purposes . The goal is to spared myself significant stress . keep up with the discipline, engage in make your presence and contribution For example, my university (like research, focus on teaching, and active- to the department and the institution many) has a “stop clock” form that al- ly participate at the institution can be significant and known . This is a critical lows extension of the tenure clock for draining . Even after securing tenure, step toward gaining recognition of how special situations including maternity; the quest to perform well in these ar- you have matured as a professional and our form is called the “request to extend eas never ends as the goal to reach full invested time and effort in the institu- the probationary period .” Based on con- professorship creates new demands and tion to help it deal with its challenges . versations with several people across activities . Often, at mid-career one can I offer some solutions/tips/suggestions campus, this is a standard form that feel trapped in the same routine of serv- to reinvent yourself at your institution allows for an extra year on the tenure ing on numerous committees, teaching in the three areas of the job responsibili- clock if needed . Since everyone I spoke a full load of classes, and presenting at ties teaching, service to the institution, to, including my department head, in- conferences . It may feel as though you and professional development . Many of terpreted the form in this manner, I are stuck in a rut . Mid-career status has the suggestions provided in this piece didn’t see the need to seek written con- its own challenges and frustrations, specifically will apply to liberal arts col- firmation of the form’s interpretation . even if professors are doing everything that they can and more . To resolve the leges and state universities . 2019 ISSUE III 7 Reinventing Yourself Teaching encourage further innovation even as it important area to focus on during the helps to reduce tedium with teaching progression of a career . Other than ac- Teaching economics can be challeng- the same class repeatedly . The structure tively participating in department and ing . Making economics fun as a dis- of these learning platforms can range overall college committees, institutions cipline is very difficult, especially cur- from face-to-face, hybrid, and complete- often expect mid-career professors to rently as college students have relatively ly online to help format classes to the take on new roles and challenges . short attention spans and plenty of dis- needs of the students and professors . Chairing the committees It is time to tractions . In addition, these students al- Such choices will provide multiple op- chair committees or take other active ready have preconceived notions of the tions to disseminate knowledge and in- roles that contribute considerably to the subject matter, and they tend to find formation to a diverse student body . committee as your primary goal . For ex- graphs, math, and abstract reasoning Student learning oriented research ample, you can help refine the commit- very unattractive . Breaking this barrier The students present an opportunity tee’s processes to make them more ef- is tough; it requires professors to con- to engage in student learning orient- ficient and effective, find ways to make stantly improve and innovate in classes ed research . Students in an economics committee work less time-consuming, every couple of years . classroom can be the sample, providing bring in different technologies to the Innovative teaching methods Explor- information about teaching techniques, committees, or minimize paperwork . ing innovative teaching methods and styles, and material . These types of stud- Contributing to the college/institution active learning techniques can prove ies can help other economics instruc- A second option is to support the insti- rewarding; the literature has provided tors as well as other discipline instruc- tution in dealing with institution-related many novel techniques that can be ad- tors on campus who can also refine matters, such as accreditation or strate- opted in the classrooms, such as flip- their own teaching . In addition, such gic planning . Preparing reports on such ping the classroom, cooperative discus- classroom research can add further to issues will play a noteworthy role for the sions, and collaborative learning . While the literature on teaching and learning institution and provide a new learning lecturing still has value, experimenting as professors can present their findings experience for you . with these new techniques can make at conferences or send out the study for Mentoring mid-career status brings the teaching experience more worth- publication . with it the opportunity to mentor new while . They may encourage you to be- Study abroad programs This compo- faculty and students, not just within the come more creative in terms of pre- nent can be a fruitful way to enhance department but throughout the institu- senting the class material, allow you to teaching and to interact with students . tion . Sharing journeys, relating both discover what works best as learning Economics as a discipline can provide a good and bad experiences, and especial- techniques for the new generations of substantial experience to students when ly explaining the culture of the institu- students, and reveal new and exciting they visit abroad, as learning about how tion will help faculty mentees in their ways to impart knowledge . Starting by economics works in other countries can path to tenure and promotion . choosing the already more successful give them a different perspective about Create an area of service expertise Carv- pedagogies and techniques is an easy the economy, business, and markets . ing out an area of service expertise is es- way to begin . Experiment more once Leading such programs can significant- sential, where associate professors par- you have developed confidence and fa- ly impact teaching techniques at home ticularly can pioneer the creation of a miliarity with these new techniques . as well, allowing professors to gain new service or program, or research some- Use of technology The use of more experiences and incorporate these oth- thing of critical importance to the insti- technology in the classroom can poten- er perspectives and cultures into their tution . New opportunities generally will tially reach more students and enliven teaching . emerge from such activities for yourself the material . Technology has become and to others . part and parcel of today’s education, Institutional Service Faculty Advisor to student clubs You especially given the technologically ad- Service to an institution, whether to the are now in a good position to lead/act vanced composition of students in the school as a whole or to individual de- as the Faculty Advisor to student clubs classrooms . Hence gaining experience partments, can take up a lot of time . In like an Economics or Business club by with new learning platforms can offer addition, many institutions weigh ser- helping already existing clubs or start- different ways to reach these students, vice contributions differently, leaving ing brand new ones . Organizing events, helping them understand the material it up to individual professors to decide bringing in speakers for the clubs, and better even as these platforms make the their participation levels . Yet service ex- managing the budget of the club can of- class more interesting for professors . pectations are still valid, evaluated, and fer meaningful and satisfying activities While some initial time investment to part of the job description . These ser- that benefit both you and the students . learn a new platform often is neces- vice opportunities change over time sary, it can expand teaching options and and with experience, making service an

8 CSWEP NEWS Reinventing Yourself Professional Development the department and/or outside the dis- can create new perspectives that benefit cipline who will want to engage in col- everyone . Conducting research remains an essen- laborative research projects, including Newsletter contributor seek a position tial part of professional development . junior colleagues . Share research inter- as a regular contributor to a department Finding the time and resources to do ests and ideas with junior colleagues or college newsletter if it exists, or start so remains challenging, particularly and create opportunities to work with one if it does not . for those at smaller institutions that fo- them . Sharing projects or ideas and Reinventing yourself at mid-career cus more on teaching or do not have working together can create a faster is essential to escape the feeling of be- as many resources as research institu- path towards publication . ing stuck . The tips I have shared are tions . Nevertheless, a research agenda Become editor of a journal seek to be- based on the experiences and ideas I must be a priority, mostly because most come an editor of a journal by starting a have gained as I have evolved through- institutions still do have a strong expec- teaching/undergraduate research jour- out my professional journey . Important- tation of professional growth . nal for students . This will benefit oth- ly, though, all professors at whatever Reserve time An initial good strategy er faculty members of the department/ career level must find a personal equi- is to actually reserve time to do profes- other disciplines in the school . librium that allows them to balance per- sional activities rather than just focus Reviewers Starting an undergradu- sonal and professional lives . Economics on service, although it is important to ate research journal will provide oppor- is about facing constraints (time), lim- still have a good work and personal life tunities for others to become reviewers ited resources, making good decisions, balance . Channeling time towards pub- for your home grown journal . In addi- and applying opportunity costs . Since lications, especially after receiving feed- tion, advise other faculty members on we are the experts, I am sure most of back from conferences, is key . how and where to become reviewers . It us will do a fantastic job . Collaborations Find colleagues within

Interview with Rohini Pande continued from page 1 notions of economic justice and human undergraduates but less than a third of They also get less credit for co-authored rights can help justify and enable such economics majors, and the proportion papers . change . of women majoring in economics has What can be done? Pande’s research lies at the intersec- been flat at around 30 percent for near- tion of political economy and develop- ly three decades, despite a rising share One of the first things is to recognize ment, and has a significant focus on of women among undergraduates . At that nothing is set in stone . It is cer- gender issues in lower-income settings . the graduate level, the proportion is the tainly important to increase the propor- She serves as co-editor of American Eco- same, around 30 percent, which may tion of women majoring in economics, nomic Review: Insights, co-chair of the suggest that there’s no problem since but we should not assume that nothing Political Economy and Government female undergraduate majors are be- can be done at any other stage . At ev- Group at the Abdul Latif Jameel Pov- coming graduate students at a propor- ery stage, people have more agency than erty Action Lab (J-PAL, headquartered tional rate . However, there is a compo- they accept themselves as having . at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- sitional issue . Economics is the most So, how can we do more? At the un- nology), a Board member of the Bureau international of all social sciences when dergraduate level, some of the problem for Research and Economic Analysis of it comes to graduate programs: rough- is informational: young women either Development (BREAD), and is a former ly half of the economics graduate stu- associate majoring in economics with co-editor of The Review of Economics and dent population have done their un- career paths that are not attractive to Statistics . dergraduate degrees outside the US, them, or they find once they enter eco- where the gender composition is dif- nomics, they are less supported . Recent Since winning the Carolyn Bell Shaw ferent . So we have two graduate stu- work shows that we can inform high- award, you have been using the platform dent pipelines—a domestic one and an performing students about their rela- to draw attention to the impediments wom- international one—and we just don’t tive performance, and expose students en face to advancement in the economics know much about the gender balance to successful female economics gradu- profession. What do we know about the in each of them or how they interact . ates, as this has been shown to increase problem? Finally, for female economists who do female undergraduate interest in major- We can look at it as three different sets enter academia, you see a higher drop- ing in economics . of problems at three different career off at each stage of their career: they get We can make the graduate school stages . At the undergraduate stage, worse placement for their first job, and experience more welcoming for all stu- women make up more than half of US they are less likely to progress to tenure . dents . Sometimes, this requires us as

2019 ISSUE III 9 Interview with Rohini Pande faculty to recognize that the modes of move . To create change, think about and supportive? operation that we are used to—like giv- who you select as your allies . As a junior More broadly, we have to argue ing feedback early on in a seminar— faculty member, if you want to move be- against the view that the system is mer- may not be the preference of students . havior among senior faculty members, itocratic and the only problem is that In the job market placement stage, it may be more effective to identify sup- too few women are entering the pipe- screening processes can be changed to portive senior faculty members and get line . There are very good arguments, be less reliant on the interviewer’s per- them to be your messenger rather than and some good evidence, that structures ceptions of quality and based more on being the messenger directly . that look at first glance meritocratic in routine—such as asking all candidates Allies matter for change—it’s hard fact are not . But at least most of the peo- identical questions in the same order . when you advocate for your own, rather ple who think the ‘meritocracy’ is really There is significant evidence that un- than another’s, group . If you’re a fourth- a meritocracy are also academics who structured interviews are associated year female PhD student advocating for will engage with a well-argued case . So with worse outcomes than structured more hiring of women, you’re doing for advocates of change it’s useful to ones . things that to others may appear as self- know that case very well, and to know I go into detail on these and other how to defend it against any push-back . ideas in my acceptance speech, which Systemic change will need us to ef- you can watch by following the link 1 fect change at many different levels . from the CSWEP web site . Change is hard and it is uncomfortable . There are very good arguments, Clearly, we have a lot of knowledge Those of us seeking to effect it need to on what is happening and what can be and some good evidence, that listen to how our colleagues are reacting done . But the harder question is this: structures that look at first glance and continue to reach out to everyone . why aren’t the reforms which have been meritocratic in fact are not. But It sounds like you are saying there are no shown to work getting implemented at least most of the people who easy or quick fixes. across the board? On some important think the ‘meritocracy’ is really a questions, we have the evidence . Now Hiring and retention is a complicated we need to consider the kind of system- meritocracy are also academics process that I believe requires all lev- ic changes that will lead to it being act- who will engage with a well- els to be committed to change—from ed on . argued case. So for advocates of the junior faculty up to the deans of the school . change it’s useful to know that Is slow change innate to academia? But there are other things that can Maybe . In the private sector, when a case very well, and to know how to be done that make environments more company has diversity problems, they defend it against any push-back. supportive of women . One type of ac- would turn to an external company to tion is clear: we can all call out inappro- help them identify and implement solu- priate behavior when we see it . This is tions . But, in academia we tend to think clearly difficult for a student when deal- we should be able to solve the problem ing with faculty, but calling out could by looking at it from within—an idea serving . Every time we change the sta- involve talking to supportive faculty . As that the private sector has moved away tus quo, there is a group that is going to faculty, we should think seriously about from . In this regard, the fact that the see fewer opportunities than before . We instituting reporting systems that are AEA has engaged an external ombud- need to recognize this concern and en- cognizant of power dynamics . Perhaps sperson is heartening . courage allies to help explain that trade- less risky and equally important is for graduate students to call out bad be- On an individual level, what can we do? off . We also need to have open conver- havior among classmates . Another is to What does advocacy look like from a grad- sations about what these trade-offs are constantly push for fair representation uate student and faculty perspective? and be clear about the benefits of en- abling diversity in the profession . of women in seminars, as department You can start by identifying your That is, for example, the danger of visitors and in conferences . spheres of influence: who is your peer focusing on hiring junior women in de- Another type of action is simply lis- group, who are those more junior to you partments that lack women at all levels, tening . None of us spend enough time whom you may be able to influence, and junior and senior . It may appear easier listening, and it’s something we can all who are those more senior, whom you to hire women on the junior job mar- do at every level . can take your concerns to, but ultimate- ket than move a senior woman . But ly whose behavior you’ll be less able to What approach do you take to mentorship, who will mentor and look out for these and what role can mentorship play in ad- women and ensure that the conversa- 1 https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/committees/cswep/ dressing gender-bias issues? about/awards/bell tions in senior faculty meetings are fair 10 CSWEP NEWS Interview with Rohini Pande Interview with Melissa Dell continued from page 1 A senior faculty member may think of anything, was particularly influential in Early in your career, your research focused mentorship as a one-on-one relation- determining the path that you took? on Latin America. You now also study ship between them and a junior facul- I think that there were a couple of fac- Asia. Was there a reason for this particu- ty member or student, but mentorship tors that were particularly influential . lar progression? goes beyond that . Some of being a men- Growing up, my grandmother was fasci- I think in some sense I’ve always tor is listening to the concerns a mentee nated by big picture social science ques- been interested in comparative ques- has, and not telling them to do some- tions and encouraged my interest as tions—i .e . what has generated the ma- thing different but, rather, telling your well . She would record PBS documenta- jor differences in the economic trajec- colleagues to do something different . ries and bring me books by authors like tories of Latin America as compared I’d say to mentors, once you talk to your James Michener . After finishing high to East Asia? However, these are real- mentee, it’s worth evaluating what you school, my grandmother had joined ly big picture questions that are diffi- should change in order to make their the Women’s Army Air Corps, learned cult to get a handle on, and require a experience a better one . to fly planes, and achieved the high- lot of investments to understand the Mentorship, for me, is also about est rank attainable by a woman during institutional contexts and available data giving people information but stopping World War II . But after the war, wom- sources . Before I can think too seriously short of converting that information en had few opportunities to pursue fur- about comparative development across into advice . People can take a lot of dif- ther careers or education . Like others in these very different contexts, there are ferent paths, and most paths can be suc- her generation, so many open ques- cessful . The striking thing is how often she became a tions about what ex- people choose a path based on informa- homemaker . I plains development tion that isn’t right: they have presump- think all her life Recent advances in computer trajectories within tions about how the profession works, she wished in vision, deep learning, and natural Asia . It turns out that they have presumptions about what it many ways that language processing are now the data from East takes to get a paper into a specific jour- she had been making it possible to access Asia are phenom- nal . As you get to be more senior, you a man so that data that would have been enally rich—much see the innards of the profession much she would have more so in most cas- more . You see confidential tenure dis- been able to pur- unimaginable to process just a few es than the historical cussions and there are ways to ensure sue her career years ago, though it does require Latin American data . confidentiality while giving junior col- aspirations, but non-trivial investments to adapt This has made it a leagues a clearer sense of what tenure instead she read these tools to our applications. really exciting con- standards are . voraciously, en- text to work in, albe- I’d like to end by asking about something rolled in class- it one that requires that many of us have observed about you. es that seemed major up-front costs In just the last few weeks we have spent to- interesting at community college, and in digitizing the vast amounts of data gether, I have seen you spend your every never missed an opportunity to learn . available . Having a career and family isn’t al- lunch and dinner with individual under- I understand you are a long-distance run- ways easy, but I am grateful every day grads, graduate students, and junior fac- ner. What is the longest you have ever run for the opportunities that women in my ulty with whom you don’t personally col- for a race? Are there characteristics that grandmother’s generation pioneered laborate but whom you have taken under you developed as a runner that help with for women today, which I think would your wing. It’s hard to explain to others the marathon that is writing and publish- have been largely unimaginable to them how continuously and intensely you are in- ing a research paper? Or maybe, the same when they were our age . volved in mentoring. How do you have the traits made you successful at both? energy? The second thing that was very in- fluential was coming to Harvard as an That’s right . The longest race I have You make me feel old! I have learnt that undergraduate . The extremely generous done is 100 miles . Mostly I just enjoy everyone can teach me something . And, financial aid that made this possible and it, I really like being outside and get- I have just really enjoyed the energy of the dedication of faculty to undergradu- ting fresh air . I do think it builds disci- folks I got to know in these groups—so, ate teaching allowed me to really devel- pline and focus, which are more broad- I guess, in the end it’s a pretty selfish op my interests . Learning more about ly useful . endeavor for me . the things that fascinated me could be Your research definitely does not shy away more than a hobby—I could do this as from trying to answer big-picture questions. a career . These are typically the most difficult to an- swer in a convincing way due to causal

2019 ISSUE III 11 Interview with Melissa Dell identification. Often one has to sacrifice interest . What was added to the list first but also deep learning, natural language on this if one wants to tackle such ques- is a bit immaterial for me, and just de- processing, etc ., because having strong tions. However, your own research is able pends upon the particular paper . I think technical skills will open up a ton of pri- to answer these questions with convincing a big part of what makes research so dif- mary source material . In my experience, identification. How are you able to answer ficult initially is that your lists start out this is not something that you can just big-picture questions but in a way that is short, but fortunately they grow a lot outsource without being knowledgeable well-identified? with time, as working on one paper al- about it yourself . ways raises more interesting questions I’m interested in a lot of questions, and If you could improve one thing about the and provides the opportunity to learn I haven’t been able to get much traction way research in economic history is done, about new contexts and methods . in answering most of them . The world what would it be? Same question but for is a complicated place, and it can be re- How do you envision the field of econom- economic development? ally tough to parse what’s going on . But ic history changing in the next 10 years? I think the more transparent and open I do try to keep interesting questions What will be its biggest challenges? Its larg- research can be, the better, as this top-of-mind and occasionally stumble est contributions? makes it easier for everyone to under- across contexts that are particularly I think economic history is ripe to be stand what drives the patterns that we well-suited to shedding light on them . revolutionized by the broader data sci- observe and to build upon them . Trans- It takes a long time to write a paper, so ence revolution, much as it was revolu- parency isn’t just about making sure you don’t need many such contexts! tionized by the Cliometric revolution a the analysis is correct (though certainly Essentially all of your projects required the generation ago . There are so many in- this is important) but also about mak- collection of primary data. What typically credibly rich historical data sources that ing it easier for others to understand comes first in your own research: the dis- have never been exploited because they and build upon your work, rather than covery/collection of data, the research ques- are too vast to manually digitize and or- having to reinvent the wheel . The disci- tion, or the identification strategy? ganize . These could be scans of archi- pline has already made a lot of advanc- All three of these are fundamental in- val tables; vast text data from historical es in this direction, and I think it will gredients to a research idea, which at newspapers, government documents, continue to do so . For example, I’d love its core requires connecting a context etc .; even things like historical images or to see more data visualization tools ac- (with associated data and variation that video footage . Recent advances in com- companying research projects, so others can generate causal identification) to puter vision, deep learning, and natural can easily see the variation in the data a research question and an empirical language processing are now making it rather than having to parse through po- methodology . Richard Feynman, one possible to access data that would have tentially dozens of tables (counting the of the most influential physicists of the been unimaginable to process just a few appendix!) to understand what’s going 20th century, was once asked how he years ago, though it does require non- on . For big investments—such as the generated so many groundbreaking re- trivial investments to adapt these tools curation of datasets that are broadly ap- search ideas . He answered that he kept to our applications . People oftentimes plicable to questions being asked by lots two lists—a list of well-defined ques- think about artificial intelligence as it re- of researchers—open access collabora- tions and a list of mathematical tools . lates to thinking, but giving the current tion on data curation can be really pow- A research idea required connecting technological frontier what it is best erful, but rarely happens . I’m currently a question from his idea list to a tool suited to is sensing—i .e . sensing the working with a software firm to build from the other list . He worked hard to content in tables, text, etc . This is what an online platform for open access col- constantly expand his lists and did daily I’ve been investing the most in lately, as laboration on curating and disseminat- memory exercises to keep them top of the possibilities for new data (to answer ing historical datasets, and I think more mind, in order to maximize the prob- some of those questions on my list that projects that encourage research teams ability of forming a connection . I like I just haven’t been able to make prog- to work together on creating knowledge this way of thinking about research . You ress on) is incredibly exciting! will be really powerful . need to develop a rich array of questions What advice do you have for young schol- that interest you . There is no shortcut to ars working at the intersection of economic being able to answer them—it requires development and economic history? learning about a variety of different con- Invest in learning about the contexts you texts . Being able to translate those con- are interested in, by reading both broad- texts into ideas requires connecting the ly and deeply into the relevant social dots, in terms of how they tie into em- science literatures . And invest in your pirical methods and your questions of technical skills—not just econometrics

12 CSWEP NEWS From the Chair continued from page 2 breakfast for mid-career economists is speech at the meetings will want to vis- to which academics are constantly faced designed for economists who have nav- it the CSWEP website to watch it . In with choices that can shape their career igated their first promotion . For wom- the interview in this News, she discuss- trajectories—choices about the trad- en in academia, mid-career mentees are es ways that the economics profession eoffs between the personal and profes- typically associate professors, but wom- needs to change to improve the repre- sional, about whether and how to make en at a similar career stage outside of sentation of women . She also has wise new contacts at a conference, about how academia are also welcome to pre-reg- advice for how mentors can best help much to invest in teaching, and about ister for this event . For all of the break- more junior members of the profes- whether to invest in new skills, among fast programs, senior economists will sion . Melissa Dell’s acceptance speech myriad others . In this Focus section, provide advice and information . Feed- and fascinating research talk from the four academic economists reflect on the back from participants in prior break- 2019 Awards Ceremony is also available choices they have made and offer advice fasts has always been very positive . Pre- on the CSWEP website . In this News in- to others as they navigate the many stag- registration information is available in terview, she discusses her career trajec- es of an academic career . the “Calls and Announcements” section tory, how she finds interesting research I hope to see many of you in Janu- of this issue as well as at cswep.org . questions, and how she sees the revo- ary as I commence my second year as Immediately following the meetings, lution in data science transforming the CSWEP Chair . In January, Ragan Pet- the 2020 CeMENT Mentoring work- field of economic history . rie and Karen Conway will finish their shop for Faculty in Doctoral Programs Our Focus section in this issue successful terms as Southern Repre- and the CeMENT Mentoring workshop grows out of an important CSWEP ac- sentative and Eastern Representative for Faculty in Non-Doctoral Programs tivity . CSWEP sponsors and organiz- respectively . I am delighted that Jenni- will begin . Martha Bailey leads the pro- es sessions and panels not only at the fer Doleac and Terry-Ann Craigie have gram for faculty in doctoral programs AEA meetings, but also at regional eco- agreed to step up to replace them . Also, and Ann Owen leads the program for nomics meetings . A panel on academ- Ann Owen will be ending her term as faculty in non-doctoral programs . This ic career challenges and opportunities CeMENT Director and will be replaced year, we were able to expand the num- sponsored by CSWEP at the 2018 Mid- by Jessica Holmes . Our board members ber of participants accepted into these west Economics Association meetings, work very hard in their roles and I am programs but nonetheless, these effec- chaired by Abigail Wozniak, provided grateful for the work that Ragan, Karen, tive and intense two-day programs are, the genesis of this issue’s Focus articles . and Ann have done, as well as the work as in prior years, oversubscribed . We are Dr . Wozniak worked with the panelists of those who are continuing in their ser- especially grateful for the senior men- to enshrine their reflections on the pro- vice . I particularly want to acknowledge tors who spend two days of focused cess of growing into one’s position as the hard work of our News Oversight Ed- mentoring effort at these workshops . an academic economist into articles for itor Kate Silz-Carson . Under her guid- Finally, for those looking to recon- this News . A unifying thread in each of ance, the News will be expanding from nect with old friends or make new ones, these articles, and in Dr . Wozniak’s in- three issues per year to four issues per CSWEP hosts Open Meeting Space at troduction, is a recognition of the extent year starting in 2020 . the Marriott Marquis, San Diego Ball- room C for part of the day on each of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday . On behalf of the CSWEP board, I CSWEP Liaison Network thank the many mentors, organizers, participants and AEA staff members Three cheers for the 150+ economists who have agreed to serve as who contribute to the busy schedule CSWEP Liaisons! We are already seeing the positive effects of your hard that CSWEP maintains at these annual meetings . work with increased demand for CSWEP paper sessions, fellowships and This News contains interviews with other opportunities. Thank you! Dissemination of information—including 2018 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Winner, notice of mentoring events, new editions of the CSWEP News and report- Rohini Pande, and 2018 Elaine Ben- ing requests for our Annual Survey and Questionnaire—is an important nett Prize Winner, Melissa Dell . Ro- charge of CSWEP. For this key task, we need your help. Visit CSWEP. hini Pande was chosen as the Carolyn org to see the list of current liaisons and departments for whom we’d Shaw Bell Award winner in 2018 in part due to her extraordinary commitment like to identify a liaison. We are also seeking liaisons from outside the to mentoring . Readers who missed her academy. To indicate your willingness to serve, send an e-mail with your contact information to [email protected].

2019 ISSUE III 13 Calls, Announcements, and Sessions at Upcoming Meetings

CSWEP Mentoring Breakfasts Call for Papers, CSWEP Call for Applications for at ASSAs Sessions @ 95th Western the American Economic DEADLINE: 2 January 2020 Economic Association Association Summer CSWEP will host two Mentoring Break- Conference Economics Fellows Program fasts for Junior Economists on January 26–30 June 2020 DEADLINE: 1 February 2020 3 and 5 and a Peer Mentoring Break- Sponsored by the American Economic fast for Mid-Career Economists on Jan- Denver, Colorado Association and the National Science uary 4 . The Mentoring Breakfasts for DEADLINE: 15 January 2020 Foundation, summer economics fel- Junior Economists events will have se- CSWEP will be sponsoring sessions at lowships are available to senior grad- nior economists on hand to provide the 2020 Western Economic Associa- uate students and junior faculty . Dur- mentoring and networking opportuni- tion International (WEAI) conference . ing their residency, fellows participate ties to junior economists . Junior econo- The deadline for submission of ses- as members of the research communi- mists are invited to drop in with ques- sion proposals to CSWEP is January 15, ty while engaged in a research project tions on topics such as publishing and 2020. of their own choosing . Fellows will be research, promotion and tenure, work- Several sessions will be organized by mentored by experienced economists life balance, the job market, teaching, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (CSWEP both on scientific issues, and career is- grants and academic versus non-aca- Western representative) . One of them sues such as negotiating publications, demic jobs . The Peer Mentoring Break- will be on the broad topic of interna- the job market, and advancement strat- fast for Mid-Career Economists mentor- tional migration, immigrants and im- egies . Fellows are encouraged to present ing experience is intended for female migration policy . Abstracts on those ar- a research seminar at the sponsoring economists who are tenured academics eas are particularly solicited, but also in agency during their fellowship . Fellows at either associate or full rank or non- other areas for additional separate ses- are typically either junior faculty, post- academics who are 8+ years post-PhD . sions . Proposals for complete sessions docs or graduate students at the disser- Each breakfast requires registration (organizer, chair, presenters and discus- tation stage . Fellows are to be chosen by through Eventbrite . sants) or round tables on specific top- the program with the agreement of the To register, go to: https://www. ics of interest are highly encouraged . sponsoring institution in line with the eventbrite.com/o/aea-committee-on- Please email abstracts (1-2 pages, in- goal of advancing the participation of the-status-of-women-in-the-economics- clude names of all authors, as well as all women and underrepresented minori- profession-cswep-8431496202 their affiliations, addresses, email con- ties in the economics profession, the fit CSWEP Business Meeting and tacts, paper title) by January 15, 2020, to: of a candidate with the activities of the Lauren Lewis research group at the sponsoring insti- Awards Ceremony Luncheon Administrative Assistant tution, and the value of the proposed re- at ASSAs Committee on the Status of Women in search to advancing the sponsoring in- DEADLINE: 2 January 2020 the Economics Profession stitution’s own goals . American Economic Association Fellowships are open to all econo- The CSWEP Business Meeting and 2014 Broadway, Suite 305 mists without regard to gender or mi- Award Ceremony Luncheon will be held Nashville, TN 37203 nority status, although the goal of the on January 3 and is open to all econo- (615) 343-0390 program, advancing the careers of wom- mists attending the AEA Meeting . This [email protected] en and underrepresented minorities, is a time to recognize the recipient of Note that this submission is separate will drive the selection process . For ex- the 2019 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, to from any submission sent in response ample, in seeking to advance women in present the Annual Report on Wom- to the WEAI’s general call for papers . the economics profession an institution en in the Economics Profession and to For more information on the WEAI may sponsor a couple, or a male part- hear input on CSWEP’s activities . Reg- meetings, please see https://www.weai. ner of a female economist, or otherwise istration is required through Eventbrite . org/conferences/ . CSWEP is unable to sponsor a male economist whose par- To register, go to: https://www. provide travel assistance to meeting par- ticipation would assist the general goal eventbrite.com/o/aea-committee-on- ticipants . Please make other arrange- of advancing women in the profession . the-status-of-women-in-the-economics- ments for covering travel and meeting Preference in consideration will be given profession-cswep-8431496202 costs . to applications received by February 1 . 14 CSWEP NEWS CSWEP Sessions Application Instructions: Applicants Men, roots and consequences of are asked to apply directly to the Sum- masculinity norms Brag Box mer Economics Fellows Program, but Victoria Baranov (University of are welcome to indicate a preference Melbourne), Pauline Grosjean “We need every day to herald some for a particular sponsor . Apply here: (University of New South Wales), woman’s achievements . . . https://www.aeaweb.org/committees/ Ralph De Haas (European Bank for go ahead and boast!” summer-fellows/apply/2020 Reconstruction and Development) —Carolyn Shaw Bell For more information, go to Discussant: Martha Bailey (University Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Professor https://www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ of California, Berkeley) of Economics at the University of committees/summer-fellows- Implicit stereotypes: evidence from California-Merced, was recently program teachers’ gender bias awarded the ASHE 2020 Outstanding Achievement Award by the American CSWEP Sessions at Upcoming Michela Carlana (Harvard University) Society of Hispanic Economists. In her Meetings Discussant: Jesse Rothstein nomination for the award, the ASHE (University of California, Berkeley) Executive Board highlighted both Dr. Amuedo-Dorantes’ prolific research re- Allied Social Science CSWEP Business Meeting and cord and her active role in promoting Association Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony Luncheon Latinx economists. Congratulations, Catalina, on this well-deserved honor! 3–5 January 2020 Friday, 3 January 2020, Marriott Marquis, San Diego,CA 12:30 pm–2:15 pm CSWEP Mentoring Breakfast for San Diego Ballroom C Junior Economists Monetary Policy, Capital Flows, Friday, 3 January 2020, and Globalization 8:00 am–10:00 am Friday, 3 January 2020, San Diego Ballroom C 2:30 pm–4:30 pm Grand Ballroom 11 Gendered Effects of Social Norms Francine Blau with Ben Bernanke and Institutions Chair: Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Francine Blau was elected a 2018 Friday, 3 January 3 2020, The information role of banks in long- Distinguished Fellow of the American 8:00 am–10:00 am Economic Association; the award term debt Grand Ballroom 2 was conferred at the 2019 Annual Chenzi Xu (Harvard University) Meetings. The AEA selects no more Chair: Janet Currie (Princeton Discussant: Leslie Sheng Shen than four economists of high dis- University) tinction from the United States and (Federal Reserve Board) Evaluating teen options for preventing Canada to be elected as fellows in a pregnancy: impacts and mechanisms How does the interaction of given year. Francine’s seminal contri- macroprudential and monetary butions to the study of labor market Dara Lee Luca (Mathematica Policy policies affect cross-border bank inequality were cited in her citation for Research), Jack Stevens (Ohio State the award. Congratulations, Francine! University), Dana Rotz (Mathematica lending? Policy Research) Judit Temesvary (Federal Reserve Send announcements to Board of Governors), Elod Takats [email protected]. Discussant: Seema Jayachandran (Bank for International Settlements) (Northwestern University) Female officers, gender violence and Discussant: Friederike Niepmann (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) human capital: evidence from all- women’s justice centers in Peru Impact of foreign official purchases of Maria Micaela Sviatchi (Princeton U.S. treasuries on the yield curve University), Iva Trako (World Bank Erin Wolcott (Middlebury College) Group), Guadalupe Kavanaugh Discussant: Burcu Duygan-Bump (Rutgers University) (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) Discussant: Anna Aizer (Brown University) 2019 ISSUE III 15 CSWEP Sessions U.S. housing as global safe haven Laura Gee (Tufts University), Amanda Blair Henry (New York University) Agan (Rutgers University), Bo Cowgill asset: the case of a China shock Discussant: Ina Simonovska (Columbia Business School) Anna Wong (Federal Reserve Board of (University of California, Davis) Governors), Nathan Converse (Federal Discussant: Jennifer Doleac (Texas A & Reserve Board of Governors) M University) Gender and the Economics Discussant: Ina Simonovska Gender price gaps and competition: Profession (University of California, Davis) evidence from a correspondence study Saturday, 4 January 2020, 10:15 am–12:15 pm CSWEP Open Meeting Space Margarita Machelett (Brown University) San Diego Ballroom A Friday, 3 January 2020, Discussant: Matt Notowidigdo Chair: Betsey Stevenson (University of 3:00 pm–5:00 pm (Northwestern University) Michigan) San Diego Ballroom C CSWEP Open Meeting Space Gender and the dynamics of CSWEP Reception economics seminars Saturday, 4 January 2020, Alicia Modestino (Northeastern Friday, 3 January 2020, 10:00 am–4:00 pm 6:00 pm–7:30 pm University), Pascaline Dupas (Stanford San Diego Ballroom C University), Muriel Niederle (Stanford Grand Ballroom 10 Firms, Trade, and Globalization University), Justin Wolfers (University CSWEP Peer Mentoring Breakfast of Michigan) Saturday, 4 January 2020, for Mid-Career Economists Discussant: Sandra E . Black (Columbia 10:15 am–12:15 pm Saturday, 4 January 2020, University) Point Loma Pool View 8:00 am–10:00 am Can mentoring help female assistant San Diego Ballroom C Chair: Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth professors in economics? An College) evaluation by randomized trial Gendered Effects on Wages, Financial globalization and the Donna Ginther (University of Kansas), Employment, and Prices growth-stability trade-off Janet Currie (Princeton University), Saturday, 4 January 2020, Tianyue Ruan (National University of Francine Blau (Cornell University), 8:00 am–10:00 am Singapore) Rachel Croson (Michigan State University) Marina Ballroom D Discussant: Yan Bai (University of Rochester) Discussant: Susan Dynarski Chair: Jennifer Doleac (Texas A & M (University of Michigan) University) Local shocks and the origins of granular fluctuations Economics is not a man’s field: a Flexible pay, bargaining, and the history of CSWEP and of the first gender gaps Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (University of Texas at Austin), Andrei Levchenko gender reckoning in the economics Barbara Biasi (Yale University), profession Heather Sarsons (University of (University of Michigan), Christoph Beatrice Cherrier (University of Cergy- Toronto) Boehm (University of Texas at Austin) Pontoise and Centre National de la Discussant: Nicole Fortin (University Discussant: Kalina Manova (University Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)), Cleo of British Columbia) College London) Chassonnery-Zaigouche (University Why do women earn less than High-skilled immigration, offshoring of Cambridge), John Singleton men? Evidence from bus and train R & D, and firm productivity (University of Rochester) operations Eunhee Lee (University of Maryland), Discussant: Marianne Wanamaker Jingting Fan (Pennsylvania State Valentin Bolotnyy (Harvard (University of Tennessee) University), Valerie Smeets (Aarhus University), Natalia Emanuel (Harvard University) Employment dynamics for economists: University) empirical evidence by gender and race Discussant: Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth Discussant: Thomas Lemieux Danielle Sander (U .S . Census Bureau), College) (University of British Columbia) Lucia Foster (U .S . Census Bureau), Does capital scarcity matter? Salary disclosure and hiring: field Julia Manzella (U .S . Census Bureau), experimental evidence from a two- Racha Moussa (International Monetary Erika McEntarfer (U .S . Census Bureau) sided audit study Fund), Anusha Chari (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Peter

16 CSWEP NEWS CSWEP Sessions What is CSWEP? Discussant: Bhash Mazumder (Federal Societal Impacts of Policing and Reserve Bank of Chicago) CSWEP (the Committee on the Status Incarceration of Women in the Economics Profession) CSWEP Mentoring Breakfast for Sunday, 5 January 2020, is a standing committee of the Ameri- Junior Economists 10:15 am–12:15 pm can Economic Association charged with serving professional women economists Sunday, 5 January 2020, Grand Ballroom 2 in academia, government agencies and 8:00 am–10:00 am Chair: Jennifer Doleac (Texas A & M elsewhere by promoting their careers and San Diego Ballroom C University) monitoring their progress . CSWEP activities endeavor to raise the Crime Prevention in the U.S. and Baby’s gone: the effect of increased awareness among men and women of the Abroad sentencing severity on fertility and challenges that are unique to women’s ca- family formation reers and can be addressed with a wide Sunday, 5 January 2020, Siobhan O’Keefe (University of variety of actions, from inclusive searches 8:00 am–10:00 am California, Davis) to formal and informal mentoring activi- Grand Ballroom 3 ties . CSWEP freely disseminates informa- Discussant: Anne Piehl (Rutgers tion on how the profession works as well Chair: Jennifer Doleac (Texas A & M University) as advice to junior economists . We intend University) Housing security and domestic this information to be of value to all econ- The impact of economic opportunity violence: evidence from nuisance omists, male or female, minority or not . on criminal behavior: evidence from ordinances Annually, CSWEP the fracking boom Sarah Kroeger (University of Notre • Organizes mentoring workshops, pa- Brittany Street (Texas A & M Dame), Giulia La Mattina (University per presentations sessions at the annual University) of South Florida) AEA Meetings, and professional devel- opment sessions at the annual meet- Discussant: Steven Raphael Discussant: Erdal Tekin (American ings of the four regional economics as- (University of California, Berkeley) University) sociations (the Eastern, Mid-Western, Predicting and preventing gun In-group bias and the police: evidence Southern and Western); violence: an experimental evaluation from award nominations • Conducts a survey and compiles a re- port on the gender composition of fac- of READI Chicago Nayoung Rim (United States Naval ulty and students in academic econom- Sara Heller (University of Michigan), Academy), Bocar Ba (Duke University), ics departments in the United States; Marianne Bertrand (University of Roman Rivera (Columbia University) • Publishes three editions of the CSWEP Chicago), Monica Bhatt (University Discussant: Benjamin Hansen News, containing a feature section writ- of Chicago), Christopher Blattman ten by senior economists that highlights (University of Oregon) (University of Chicago), Max Kapustin career advice or other topics of interest (University of Chicago) The criminal and economic impacts to the economics profession; and of an arrest • Awards the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, Discussant: Emily Owens (University given to a person for their outstanding of California, Irvine) Emily Weisburst (University of California, Los Angeles) work to promote the careers of women Peer effects on violence: experimental economists as well as the Elaine Ben- evidence in El Salvador Discussant: Justin McCrary nett Research Prize, given biennially (Columbia University Law School) Lelys Dinarte (World Bank) to a young woman economist for fun- damental contributions to academic Discussant: Jens Ludwig (University of CSWEP/CSMGEP Panel: economics . Chicago) Launching a Professional Our business meeting is held during Gangs, state capacity, and Development Initiative the annual AEA Meetings and is open to development Sunday, 5 January 2020, all economists . It is a time for us to con- fer awards and celebrate recipients, pres- Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton 10:30 am–12:15 pm ent the Annual Report on Women in the University), Nikita Melnikov San Diego Ballroom C Economics Profession and to hear your (Princeton University), Carlos input on CSWEP’s activities . The CSWEP Schmidt-Padilla (University of CSWEP Open Meeting Space Board meets three times yearly and we en- California, Berkeley) Sunday, 5 January 2020, courage you to attend our business meet- ing or contact a Board Member directly to Discussant: John Donohue (Stanford 12:30 pm–3:00 pm convey your ideas for furthering CSWEP’s University Law School) San Diego Ballroom C mission .

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Judith A. Chevalier, Chair Shahina Amin, Jonathan Guryan, At-Large William S . Beinecke Professor of Midwest Representative Professor of Human Development and Economics and Finance Lawrence Jepson Professor of Social Policy School of Management, Yale International Economics Institute for Policy Research, University Department of Economics, College of Northwestern University 165 Whitney Avenue Business Administration 2040 Sheridan Road New Haven, CT 06511 University of Northern Iowa Evanston, IL 60208 (203) 432-3122 1227 West 27th Street (773) 848-9408 [email protected] Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0129 [email protected] (319) 273-2637 Karen Pence, At-Large Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, [email protected] Assoc. Chair & Dir. of Mentoring Assistant Director of Division of Neil Moskowitz Endowed Ragan Petrie, Research Statistics Professor of Economics Southern Representative Federal Reserve Board Department of Economics, Professor of Economics 20th Street & Constitution University of Maryland Texas A&M University Avenue NW 4118D Tydings Hall 4228 TAMU Washington DC, 20551 College Park, MD, 20742 College Station, TX 77843-4228 (202) 452-2342 (301) 405-3486 (979) 845-4593 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ann Owen, Ex-Officio, Margaret Levenstein, Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, CeMENT Director Assoc. Chair & Survey Director Western Representative Professor of Economics Research Professor, Professor of Economics Hamilton College Institute for Social Research University of California-Merced 198 College Hill Road Director, ICPSR, University of Economics Department, COB2-367 Clinton, NY 13323 Michigan University of California, Merced (315) 859-4419 330 Packard Street 5200 North Lake Rd ., [email protected] Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1248 Merced, CA 95343 Martha Bailey, Ex-Officio, (734) 615-8400 (619) 300-6362 CeMENT Director [email protected] [email protected] Department of Economics and Kate Silz-Carson, Sandra Black, At-Large Population Newsletter Oversight Editor Audre and Bernard Rapoport Studies Center Professor of Economics Centennial Chair University of Michigan U .S . Air Force Academy in Economics and Public Policy 611 Tappan Street, 207 Lorch Hall 2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6K110 Department of Economics Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1220 USAF Academy, CO 80840-6299 The University of Texas at Austin (734) 647-6874 (719) 333-2597 2225 Speedway [email protected] [email protected] Austin, TX 78712 (512) 475-8519 Karen Smith Conway, [email protected] Eastern Representative John A . Hogan Distinguished Petra Moser, At-Large Professor of Economics Associate Professor of Economics University of New Hampshire Leonard N . Stern School of Business 10 Garrison Avenue New York University Durham, NH 03824 44 West Fourth Street, 7-69 (603) 862-3386 New York, NY 10012 [email protected] [email protected]

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