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.
Anna Mikusheva, the Castle-Krob Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the recipient of the 2012 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. The Elaine Bennett Research Prize was established in 1998 to recognize and honor outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman at the beginning of her career. Professor Mikusheva is recognized for her important contributions to econometric theory. Her research, which combines a powerful command of econometric theory with a keen interest in developing tools that will be useful for tackling problems in applied econometric practice, has advanced econometric inference in time series and dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. See http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/cswep/awards/ for the full announcement.
The recipient of the 2012 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award is Catherine C. Eckel, the Sara and John Lindsey Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. The Award was created in 1998 to recognize an individual who has further the status of women in the economics profession. Professor Eckel has been a leader in experimental economics has for several decades. Known as a tireless advocate for the careers of women economists and is described as "tenacious" in her commitment to mentoring the next generation of female economists. See http://www.aeaweb.org/committees/cswep/awards/ for the full announcement.
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Cecilia Conrad, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Pomona College, has been selected to serve as the next Director of the MacArthur Fellows Program. http://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/cecilia-conrad-direct-macarthur-fellows-program/
Amy Finkelstein (past Elaine Bennett Research Prize recipient) of MIT won the 2012 John Bates Clark Medal awarded by the American Economic Association to the top economist under age 40.
Katharine 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
Prof. 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 Athey (past Elaine Bennett Research Prize recipient) has been appointed a member of the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science.
Esther 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 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.
Rolf 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.
Who 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.
Any suggestions or comments can be e-mailed to: cswep@econ.duke.edu
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