Oberlin Women and Trans in Economics

12/10/2019

https://www.ft.com/content/4c470b8e-1559-11ea-8d73-6303645ac406
The Nobel laureate Esther Duflo talks about gender diversity and trends in Economics! A million thanks to Yijia Gao, a proud alum, for finding this awesome piece

The acclaimed economist on gender, GDP and finding practical solutions to intractable problems

10/27/2019

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50039214

Congrats to Esther Duflo for being the second woman to win the Nobel Economics Prize!

Esther Duflo, who won the prize as part of a team of three, is only the second woman since 1969 to win.

05/14/2019

Tonight! Another Stud-tea, 8pm-11pm in the Kahn first floor classroom! There will be 3rd and 4th years to help with study for their exams-- we hope to see you there!!!

04/02/2019

Some pictures from our Monday night Stud-TEA!

04/01/2019

Reminder post! If you or someone you know needs help with Econ 101 or 200 level electives our committee is putting on a Stud-TEA event tonight (Monday April 1st) in the Kahn classrroom from 8 to 10 pm!!! There will be some wonderfully smart women you can ask your questions to!!

03/21/2019

Come out to our great events that are happening after Spring Break!!!

03/08/2019

There's a talk today at noon by Sarah Pearlman (from Vassar), "Reversed Migration Trends and Local Labor Markets".

We hope to see you there!

02/26/2019

Check out this amazing profile on one of our members, Maya English!

She's a rockstar!

See the story

02/23/2019

Thanks to alum Louisa Liles for finding this amazing podcast episode about the first African-American to earn a PhD in economics! Give it a listen!

Sadie Alexander was the first African-American to earn a PhD in economics. We think her contributions deserve another look.

01/12/2019

Great article in the New York Times about women in the economic field! We’re glad to see some attention brought to this issue

At the economics profession’s largest annual gathering, women said sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying were pushing them to the sidelines or out of the field altogether.

11/27/2018

We are very excited to have Louisa Liles '18 as out Economist of the Week! Louisa graduated with majors in economics and mathematics. Outside of academics she was a dancer, a violinist, and a big fan of long bike rides through the seemingly endless fields of corn. Her favorite economics classes were Public Economics with Ron Cheung and the Honors Seminar.

After graduating, she moved to D.C. and started working as a Research Assistant in the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board. Right now her job consists of maintaining code that produces daily exhibits of market-based policy expectations, and helping economists with their research projects. One of the research projects she is helping with investigates monetary policy spillovers between advanced economies, and the other uses a New Keynesian DSGE model to investigate optimal monetary policy. (Side note— we actually have a speaker from the Cleveland Fed coming this Friday to speak about his work on the DSGE model!)

She tells us that her favorite aspects of this job are interacting with people who are passionate about public service, and learning something new about monetary policy every single day! She told us, "In fact, I wish I could go back to Oberlin and be a Macroeconomics TA again, because I know so much more than I did a few months ago!"

From Louisa:

"I’m not sure how qualified I am to give advice, given that I just graduated. However, here are two things:

1. Apply for the job or the internship, even if you don’t think you are qualified. I have to say that, because if I hadn’t done that I wouldn’t be where I am now.

2. Last week in the office I saw a sign that said, “What did you do today to foster diversity and inclusion?” and I thought it was a really good reminder that my interpersonal interactions can shape the office culture just as much as the official policies can. This is not so much of a piece of advice as it is me sharing something that I’m going to try and think about more, but I thought other people might like the reminder too!"

Thank you, Louisa!