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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

  • Be sure to read about the CSWEP activities hosted at the 2025 ASSA meeting, particularly the reception to honor Nobel Laureate, Claudia Goldin and the Junior Mentoring Breakfast.
  • CSWEP is hosting seven sessions at the 2025 ASSA Meeting in San Francisco. For session details, click here.
  • DCSWEP sessions at the 2024 APPAM Meeting will be held at the Gaylord Hotel in National Harbor, MD on November 21-23. Please read about the sessions here.
  • CSWEP is hosting multiple sessions at the Southern Economic Association 94th Annual Meeting on November 23-25 in Washington, DC. For the session details, click here.
  • 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 is January 15, 2025. For submission details, click here.

Award Winners

Sandra E. Black, 2024 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Recipient

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, 2024 Elaine Bennett Research Prize RecipientMaryam 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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About CSWEP

CSWEP’s past and present–our mission, our history, what we do and who we are.

CSWEP Programs

How can CSWEP help you? Resources, opportunities, events and professional development materials designed to promote the careers of women economists.

CSWEP Survey & Annual Report

Women’s representation in economics has increased since CSWEP first surveyed economics departments regarding the gender composition of faculty in 1972. Since 1993, CSWEP has surveyed some 250 departments annually.

CSWEP News

Published four times yearly since 1972 and full of advice and information on how the profession works for all economists

Participate in CSWEP

The CSWEP Community welcomes you! Become a CSWEP Subscriber, view calls and announcements, participate in mentoring experiences and join the CSWEP Liaison Network.