Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession

CSWEP is a standing committee of the American Economic Association charged with promoting the careers and monitoring the progress of women economists in academia, government agencies and elsewhere. Learn more about CSWEP.

CSWEP Chair and Board

The CSWEP Chair is Linda Tesar, Professor at the University of Michigan.  View the full list of current CSWEP Board Members.

Upcoming News, Events, and Deadlines

• The 2025 AEA Summer Training program is urgently seeking PhD economists to volunteer as research mentors for students due to the recent loss of a few sponsors.  Each mentor will be paired with two or more scholars—participants who may be current undergraduates students or graduate students or recent graduates, individuals who already hold bachelor’s or master’s degrees. Scholars will vary in experience and will benefit greatly from individualized mentorship. Mentors are expected to remotely attend all mentoring sessions on the following dates: June 6, June 10, June 20, June 27, July 3, and July 1. Attendance on May 30 and an additional mentoring day and presentation days (June 13 and July 18) are optional but strongly encouraged.  For details and to serve, click here.
• The 2025 CSWEP News Issue II: Focus on Women in Leadership by Francisca Antman is now available!
• Call for Nominations for the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award is now open! The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award (“Bell Award”) is given annually to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring others. For the award details and how to nominate a scholar, click here. Nominations are due by September 19, 2025.
• Call for Nominations for the CSWEP Elaine Bennett Research Prize is now open! Established in 1998, the Elaine Bennett Research Prize is awarded annually to recognize and honor outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman not more than ten years beyond her PhD (adjusted for family responsibilities). For award details and how to nominate a scholar, click here. Nominations are due by September 19, 2025.
• Call for papers for the 3rd edition of the Workshop "Women in Central Banking" is now open. The workshop is organized jointly by the Bank of Italy, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Norges Bank and provides a platform for female PhD and post-doctoral students working on topics relevant to central banks to present their research and receive feedback. This year the Bank of Italy will host the workshop in its headquarters in Rome on November 6-7, 2025. Full papers should be submitted to wicb2025@bancaditalia.it by June 30, 2025. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by July 31, 2025. Selected papers will be assigned a discussant.
• CSWEP is sponsoring these four sessions at the WEAI conference: advances in economic theory, advances in econometrics, inequality and careers, and gender issues. For all the details, click here. Additionally, friends of CSWEP are invited to a light breakfast networking event set for Saturday, June 21, 2025. The event is open to all WEAI conference registrants. Advanced registration is required here. 
• CSWEP is excited to announce that enrollment in our popular Mid-Career Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Mentoring Program is now open! The program aims to help mid-career economists find community, support, and mentoring. To learn more and enroll your group, visit cswepmentoring.org.
  
  

Award Winners

Sandra E. Black, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, is the recipient of the 2024 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award.

Named after the first chair of CSWEP, the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award was created as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of the founding of CSWEP. The award has been given annually since 1998 to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring others. Professor Black will formally accept this award at the CSWEP business meeting and award ceremony during the 2025 AEA/ASSA meeting in San Francisco.

Over her exemplary career, Dr. Black has provided vital support for women in economics at every stage, from undergraduate to tenured professor, while advancing a highly influential research agenda. She has contributed as an editor of leading journals, she founded the NBER program on economic mobility, and she served as a Member on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Black has a significant record of service to the profession, including serving on the Executive Committees of the AEA and the Society of Labor Economists, the AEA's Standing Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Professional Conduct, and the Board of CSWEP. Her research, mentorship, and leadership continue to create lasting, positive impacts on the status of women in the economics profession.

Visit the awards page for the full announcement.

Maryam Farboodi, the Jon D. Gruber Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management is the recipient of the 2024 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Established in 1998, the Elaine Bennett Research Prize recognizes and honors outstanding research in any field of economics. 
 
Professor Farboodi is an applied theorist whose research focuses on the economics of big data with applications to finance and macroeconomics. She has developed methodologies to estimate the value of data. In addition, Professor Farboodi studies intermediation and network formation among financial institutions, and the spillovers to the real economy. She is also interested in how information frictions shape local and global economic cycles. Most recently, her research has also focused on understanding the covid-19 pandemic and associated policies. In her work, Professor Farboodi identifies the key questions of our times and provides conceptual frameworks to address them.

Professor Farboodi received her Ph.D. in Financial Economics joint between the Department of Economics and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago in 2014. Among her many honors are receiving the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and winning the 2019 Young Researcher Award from the SCOR-PSE Chair on Macroeconomic Risk. She is a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

For more information about the Elaine Bennett Research Prize and for the full prize announcement visit our website.

Visit the awards page for the full announcement.

Contact CSWEP

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