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 Eastern Economic Association (EEA) will hold its annual conference in New York City from February 21 - 23, 2025. To view the conference schedule and the sessions CSWEP organized, visit the EEA website. CSWEP is happy to announce two special events for CSWEP affiliates who will be attending the conference.
  • First, we are delighted that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will host a reception for CSWEP affiliates on Thursday, February 20, from 5-7 pm EST.
  • Second, CSWEP will host a networking breakfast on Saturday, February 22nd at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, from 8-9:15 AM.  For the details and how to register, for both events, click here.  
• The CSWEP activities and sessions hosted at the 2025 AEA/ASSA meetings in San Francisco on January 3-5, 2025 were well-attended and informative. We send a special congratulatory salute to the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award recipient, Sandra E. Black, and the Elaine Bennett Research Prize winner, Maryam Farboodi. It was also a special night to honor Claudia Goldin, the 2023 Nobel Laureate winner for Economic Sciences at our annual CSWEP Reception.  Be sure to see the photos of all events on our social media at X (formerly known as Twitter) and Bluesky.
• CSWEP will be sponsoring two to four sessions at the 2025 Western Economic Association International (WEAI) conference. The deadline for submission of paper and/or session proposals to CSWEP has been extended to January 20, 2025. For submission details, click here.

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

Questions? Contact the CSWEP Committee Coordinator at info@cswep.org.

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