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Esther Duflo Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Spring/Summer 2004 Published three times annually by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Board Member Biography CONTENTS Lori Kletzer From the Chair: 2 I stumbled into econom- Feature Articles, Mentoring: 3–8 ics. At the beginning of my Comment on “Responding to fi rst year at Vassar College, Discrimination in the Academy”: 11 I needed one more course and introduction to microeconomics fi t my Board Member Biography, Sharon Oster: 12 schedule. I went on to the macro course, and Eastern Economic Association Meetings Call decided to major in economics. I was good for Papers: 13 at it, Vassar’s economics faculty was engag- Midwest EconomicEconomic AssociationAssociation CallCall forfor ing and supportive and I started to see how my Papers: 13 slightly activist, public policy interests could work out within economics. Interview with Southern Economic Association Call for After college, with a bit of interest in Papers 2004: 13 health economics, I took an entry-level job Esther Dufl o Summary of the Eastern Economic with Kaiser Permanente (the HMO) back Association Meetings February 20–22, Recipient of the 2002 Elaine 2004: 13–15 home in Portland OR. My work didn’t have Bennett Research Prize much connection to real issues in health eco- Summary of the Midwest Economic nomics, but the time (and drudgery) allowed Interviewed by Judith Chevalier Association Meeting March 19–21, me to fi gure out that I really wanted to teach 2004: 15–17 and do economics. So I applied to graduate JC: How did you become Western Economic Association Meeting: 17 school and decided to go to Berkeley. Early interested in economics? in my studies, I developed an interest in labor ED: I had always been inter- Announcements: 18 markets and structural change. That interest ested in development (I was Upcoming Regional Meetings and CeMENT has really become a professional identity, as a active in NGOs and com- Regional Workshop: back cover scholar of job displacement. munity organizations), but I I met my husband, Ken Kletzer, at was studying history. My mom is very active Berkeley, and when Ken took a job as an in a small NGO (she was a pediatrician). I was Assistant Professor at Yale, I followed along going to be an historian (perhaps an econom- Mentoring as a faculty spouse/grad student fi nishing a ic historian) and do the development work on dissertation. It was an incredible opportuni- the side. ty, and one that was career-changing, before Then I spent my last college year in an ex- I even had a career. I met so many economists change program in Russia in 92-93. I started Introduction: CeMENT there who ended up infl uencing my career. working as research assistant for economists by Lisa Barrow page 3 My fi rst teaching job was at Williams (Jeffrey Sachs and my professor in France, College. Williamstown-New Haven was a do- Daniel Cohen). It was so exciting to be so close able commute for us. I spent six years there, to what was happening in the country (though Applying for Research Grants leaving in 1992, just after getting tenure. It it was a bit of a disaster then, in Russia) that it from Liberal Arts Colleges was diffi cult to leave; I loved the teaching, my occurred to me that it was much more interest- by Lara Shore-Sheppard page 4 colleagues and the College overall offered tre- ing than history! mendous respect and support for my research Also, I met Thomas Piketty, who was then An Overview of Networking and teaching, and I was very happy there. But an assistant professor at MIT, and he told me Strategies we wanted to stop commuting (our son was that at MIT, economics was very applied; I by Joyce P. Jacobsen page 6 born in 1990). After a nationwide search, we could study empirical questions that were very landed at the University of California Santa close to policy. Then I put 2 and 2 together and continued on page 12 continued on page 9 DIRECTORY OF CSWEP BOARD MEMBERS From the Chair Francine D. Blau, Chair Lori Kletzer Cornell University Department of Economics 265 Ives Hall University of California, Santa Cruz Ithaca, NY 14853 204 Social Sciences (607) 255-4381 1156 High Street CSWEP has continued hard at work on FAX (607) 255-4496 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 CeMENT, our NSF-funded mentoring ini- [email protected] (831) 459-3596 [email protected] tiative for junior economists. In February, Joan G. Haworth, Membership-Chair we held a mentoring program in conjunc- ERS Group KimMarie McGoldrick tion with the Eastern Economic Association 4901 Tower Court Department of Economics meetings. Like our previous workshop at the Tallahassee, FL 32303 E.C. Robins School of Business (850) 562-1211 University of Richmond January ASSA meetings, this one was also a FAX (850) 562-3838 Richmond, VA 23173 great success. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved [email protected] (804) 289-8575 in the Eastern Regional Workshop Meeting, especially KimMarie McGoldrick FAX (804) 289-8878 (University of Richmond), the workshop coordinator, as well as those who Lisa Barrow [email protected] Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago donated their time to serve as mentors or session leaders including: Rachel 230 S. LaSalle Street Catherine L. Mann Croson (University of Pennsylvania), Mary Beth Deily (Lehigh University), Chicago, IL 60604 Institute for International Economics Gail Hoyt (University of Kentucky), Joyce Jacobsen (Wesleyan University), (312) 322-5073 1750 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. and Rick Lampert (National Science Foundation (NSF), Nancy Marion FAX (312) 322-2357 Washington, DC 20036 [email protected] (202) 328-9000 (Dartmouth College), Karine Moe (Macalester College), Dan Newlon (NSF), FAX (202) 659-3225 Ann Owen (Hamilton College), Bonney Sheehan (NSF), Saranna Thorton Judith A. Chevalier [email protected] (Hampden-Sydney College) and Andrea Ziegert (Denison University). Thank Yale University you all! We are also deeply grateful to John Siegfried and the AEA for their 135 Prospect Street Karine S. Moe New Haven, CT 06520 Macalester College continued support and assistance. (203) 432-3122 1600 Grand Avenue Our next CeMENT workshop will be held in New Orleans, November 19- [email protected] St. Paul, MN 55105 20th preceding the 2004 Southern Economic Association Meeting. For more (651) 696-6793 Rachel Croson FAX (651) 696-6746 information, see the announcement in this Newsletter. Following the New OPIM: The Wharton School [email protected] Orleans workshop, there will be three remaining workshop opportunities. The University of Pennsylvania third and fourth regional workshops will be held in conjunction with the 2005 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 Sharon Oster Western Economic Association meeting in San Francisco (tentatively June 27- (215) 898-3025 Yale University School of FAX (215) 898-3664 Management 28) and the 2006 Midwest Economic Association meeting in Chicago (March). [email protected] 135 Prospect Street The fi nal national workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2006 ASSA Box 208200 meeting in Boston. Updated information on the mentoring initiative is available Barbara Fraumeni New Haven, CT 06520 at our website: http://www.cswep.org/. Mentoring and advice also constitute Bureau of Economic Analysis BE-3 (203) 432-5969 1441 L Street NW [email protected] the focus of our featured articles in this newsletter. Washington, DC 20230 I’d also like to alert you to our plans for CSWEP-sponsored sessions the (202) 606-9603 Ann Owen at the ASSA meetings in Philadelphia, PA in January 2005. We will have three FAX (202) 606-5311 Economics Department gender-related sessions on “Women’s Acquisition of Human Capital,” “Health [email protected] Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13323 and Gender,” and “Marriage and Children.” Our three nongender-related ses- Daniel S. Hamermesh (315) 859-4419 sions are focused on Technology Issues – “Technology and Competition,” University of Texas at Austin [email protected] “Technology, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment,” and “Technology and Department of Economics Labor Markets.” We hope to see you in Philadelphia and encourage you to at- Austin, TX 78712 (512) 475-8526 tend these very interesting sessions. FAX (312) 471-3510 As is customary, CSWEP is organizing three gender-related sessions for [email protected] the 2006 meetings; the topic for our three nongender-related sessions is indus- trial organization. Remember to submit your abstracts to CSWEP if you would like to be considered for the 2006 ASSA sessions. All abstracts are due by What is CSWEP? January 11, 2005. See the announcement in this newsletter, our call for papers CSWEP (the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics in the JEP this summer, or http://www.cswep.org for further details. Profession) is a standing committee of the AEA (American Economics CSWEP also organizes sessions for each of the regional meetings every Association). It was founded in 1971 to monitor the position of wom- year. This newsletter contains a call for papers for a number of these meet- en in the economics profession and to undertake activities to improve that position. Our thrice yearly newsletters are one of those activities. ings; watch future newsletters for others or check out our website. Also, See our website at www.cswep.org for more information on what we feel free to contact your regional representative if you have program ideas are doing. or other suggestions. CSWEP NEWSLETTER STAFF Finally, CSWEP wants to hear from you. 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