Historical Figures
Edith Abbott, the Chicago economist and social reformer, helped push New Deal debates toward this 1935 act in the USA establishing old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
Name all three women who have won the Nobel in economics so far.
Who are Elinor Ostrom, Esther Duflo, and Claudia Goldin?
She solo authored "Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment" (AER, 2001)
Who is Esther Duflo?
Across the pond, this university was co-founded by sociologist and economist Beatrice Webb in 1895.
What is the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)?
She was the first woman to receive tenure in Harvard’s economics department.
Who is Claudia Goldin?
She coauthored "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" (AER, 2004)
Who is Marianne Bertrand?
Market structure first introduced by British economist Joan Robinson in her 1933 book "The Economics of Imperfect Competition".
What is monopsony?
She was the first woman to win the John Bates Clark Medal.
Who is Susan Athey?
She coauthored "Five facts about prices: A reevaluation of menu cost models" (QJE, 2008)
Who is Emi Nakamura?
Co-author with Milton Friedman of "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960" (1963), she labeled 1929–33 the “Great Contraction.”
Who is Anna Schwartz?
She was the first woman to be appointed editor-in-chief of the American Economic Review.
Who is Penelope (Penny) Goldberg?
She solo authored "The aggregate effects of health insurance: Evidence from the introduction of Medicare" (QJE, 2007)
Who is Amy Finkelstein?
In 1950, Mabel F. Timlin became the first woman to receive tenure as a professor of economics in Canada at this university.
What is the University of Saskatchewan?
She was the first woman to be Chief Economist of the World Bank.
Who is Anne Krueger?
She coauthored "A PANIC attack on unit roots and cointegration" (Econometrica, 2004)
Who is Serena Ng?