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CSWEP: Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession

CSWEP is a subcommittee of the American Economics Association charged with addressing the status of women in the economics profession. It publishes a three-times-a-year newsletter, organizes sessions at the annual meetings of the AEA and the regional economics associations, runs mentoring workshops, and publishes an annual report on the status of women in the economics profession.


CSWEP at the AEA Annual Meeting in Chicago

The ASSA/AEA Annual Meeting was a huge success drawing over 11,000 attendees! CSWEP Events were well attended - see the photos! Watch the Session Summaries page for the summary of the CSWEP Sponsored Sessions' papers!


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Check out the Fall 2011 CSWEP Newsletter theme of, "Inspiring Women in Policy" with articles by Margaret Simms of the Urban Institute, Karen Dynan of the Brookings Institute and Joyce Manchester of the Congressional Budget Office. Interviews, Board member biographies, upcoming paper sessions are all included!

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Photo and quote of/from Carolyn Shaw Bell

Katharine AbrahamKatharine Abraham (former CSWEP Board Member) is now a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and is responsible for offering the President objective advice on the formulation of economic policy.
From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/about/members

Oriana BandieraProf. Oriana Bandiera, Ph.D. '2000, (CSWEP Associate) has been awarded the 2011 Carlo Alberto Medal by Collegio Carlo Alberto in Torino, Italy. The medal is awarded to an Italian scholar under the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions to economics. The medal has been awarded annually since 2007; Bandiera is the first female recipient.
--from Boston College website 7/2011

Susan AtheySusan Athey (past Elaine Bennett Research Prize recipient) has been appointed a member of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science.

Esther DufloEsther Duflo (past Elaine Bennett Research Prize recipient), has been selected as the winner of the Association for Public Policy Analysis Management's (APPAM) 2011 David N. Kershaw Award. The Kershaw Award and Prize recognizes individuals under the age of 40 who have made distinguished contributions to the field of Public Policy Analysis. Esther also was selected as one of the 2011 TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People.

Fiona Scott MortonFiona Scott Morton (former CSWEP Board member) has been named Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. She will be in the Anti-Trust Division.

Shawna GrosskopfRolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf (CSWEP Associate) are among the ISI Web of Knowledge 250 most highly cited scholars in Economics and Business. ISIHighlyCited.com highlights the top 250 preeminent individual researchers in each of 21 subject categories who have demonstrated great influence in their field as measured by citations to their work--the intellectual debt acknowledged by their colleagues.

Deborah LevisonWho says economists can't work with others? Co-authored with two anthropologists and an educationalist, Deborah Levison recently published, "Rights and Wrongs of Working Children," by Michael Bourdillon, Deborah Levison, William Myers, and Ben White, New Brunswick, NJ:  Rutgers University Press. (Part of the Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies).


CSWEP is present at the annual meetings of the AEA and the regional economics associations. Its associates arrange sessions for these meetings and work to ensure that women economists are adequately represented on the program. The Committee also hosts social events at these meetings where women economists can meet and exchange information.

CSWEP represents women's points of view in the committee work of the American Economic Association, monitors the progress of women within the profession, and makes an annual report to the AEA on the status of women in economics.


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