The 2016 study found that active learning, or discussion-based formats, could greatly benefit economics, since “active ...

Women are still a minority in the economics profession. By the mid-2000s, just under 35 percent of PhD students and 30 percent of assistant professors were female, and these numbers have remained ...

Economist Justin Wolfers recently wrote about how female economists are airbrushed out of academic discussion when they have a male co-author. We decided to bring together some of the women who've ...

The representation of women economists on all fronts is lower still. Even when research is published, getting it noticed is a major challenge. Promoting research within academic circles is one thing; ...

Why do we need diversity in research? Because it makes better science. UBS and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, CEPR, bring you Women in Economics, a podcast that shines a light on the ...

French-American Duflo becomes only the second female economics winner in the prize's 50-year history, as well as the youngest at 46 US-based economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo from MIT ...

Anna Schwartz is the lesser-known c0-author of what is probably the most influential single book on monetary economics written since the Second World War. In 1963, Schwartz and future Nobel prize ...