CSWEP: Carolyn Shaw Bell Award
The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award was created in January 1998 as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of the founding of CSWEP. Carolyn Shaw Bell, the Katharine Coman Chair Professor Emerita of Wellesley College, was the first Chair of CSWEP. (To read a short biography of Carolyn Shaw Bell, see our Winter 2005 Newsletter.) 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.
Detailed guidance on the criterion used by the selection committee is available here.
View the current 2023 Call for Nominations
2022 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award: Martha Bailey
Martha Bailey, Professor in the Department of Economics and affiliate at the California Center for Population Research at the University of California-Los Angeles, is the recipient of the 2022 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. Professor Bailey also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, CEPR, CESifo, and IZA. Her research focuses on issues in labor economics, demography, and health in the United States, within the long-run perspective of economic history. Her work has examined the implications of the diffusion of modern contraception for women’s childbearing, career decisions, and the convergence in the gender gap. Recent projects focus on the 1960s, including evaluations of the shorter and longer-term consequences of War on Poverty programs and the labor-market effects of equal pay legislation in the US. She directs the LIFE-M project, which links millions of vital records with census data for the early 20th-century U.S.
Her work has appeared in the American Economic Review and Quarterly Journal of Economics. It has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. She has also won several awards for outstanding teaching, including the 2017 John Dewey Teaching Award at the University of Michigan and the 2022 Berck and Lisa Cheng Award at UCLA. She currently serves as an editor at the Journal of Labor Economics and on the editorial board of the American Economic Review. Professor Bailey is a phenomenal advocate for women in the profession and has advised many women students.
View the full announcement.
2022 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Presentation with an introduction by nominators and supporters:
Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Recipients
- 2022 -- Martha Bailey
Announcement | Photo | Video of recipient's talk - 2021 -- Joyce Jacobsen
Announcement | Photo | Video of recipient's talk - 2020 -- Nancy Rose
Announcement | Photo | Video of recipient's talk - 2019 -- Yan Chen
Announcement | Photo | Video of recipient's talk - 2018 -- Rohini Pande
Announcement | Photo | Video of recipient's talk - 2017 -- Rachel Croson
Announcement | Photo | Video of recipient's talk - 2016 -- Cecilia Rouse
Announcement | Photo - 2015 -- Janet M. Currie
Announcement | Photo | 2016 interview | Video of recipient’s talk - 2014 -- Hilary W. Hoynes
Announcement | Photo | 2015 interview | Video of recipient’s talks - 2013 -- Rachel McCulloch
Announcement | Photo | 2014 interview - 2012 -- Catherine C. Eckel
Announcement | Photo | 2013 interview - 2011 -- Sharon Oster
Announcement | Photo | 2012 interview - 2010 -- Elizabeth Hoffman
Announcement | Photo | 2011 interview - 2009 -- Elizabeth E. Bailey
Announcement | Photo | 2010 interview - 2008 -- Anne Carter
Announcement | Photo | 2009 interview - 2007 -- Olivia S. Mitchell
Announcement | Photo | 2008 interview - 2006 -- Barbara Fraumeni
Announcement | Photo | 2007 interview - 2005 -- Claudia Goldin
Announcement | Photo | 2006 interview - 2004 -- Barbara Bergmann
Announcement | Photo | 2005 interview - 2003 -- Robin L. Bartlett
Announcement | Photos | 2004 interview - 2002 -- Margaret Garritsen de Vries
Announcement | Photos | 2003 interview - 2001 -- Francine Blau
Announcement | Photo | 2002 interview - 2001 -- Marianne Ferber
Announcement | Photo | 2002 interview - 2000 -- Eva Mueller
Photo | Interview - 1999 -- Sandra Ohrn Moose
Photo | Interview - 1998 -- Alice M. Rivlin
Photo | 1998 interview