Women in economics get asked significantly more questions than men when presenting -- mostly by men. Researchers say this is part of deeper gender issues within the field.
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Feb 09, 2021
Women in economics get asked significantly more questions than men when presenting -- mostly by men. Researchers say this is part of deeper gender issues within the field.
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September 9, 2019
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September 3, 2019
New paper says the death of star scientists often benefits their subfields, via an influx in new contributors and ideas.
June 3, 2019
Report attacks Koch-funded Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University as a pro-fossil-fuel-industry idea launderer. University and Koch deny the charge.
March 19, 2019
Survey of economics association members finds 48 percent of women have been discriminated against on the basis of sex within the last 10 years. Findings on nonwhite, disabled and LGBTQ economists are concerning, too. What will the association do about it?
February 7, 2019
Scholar at University of Cambridge hopes to use her naked body to go beyond what she can do in academic writing.
January 3, 2019
Economists and discipline's main association face criticism that the field's power centers are a small number of top departments. Grad students, meanwhile, push for standards of conduct.
July 25, 2018
The Charles Koch Foundation pledges to make future grant terms public, but critics still want to know more about past agreements -- specifically whether they allowed the foundation a role in faculty hiring or curricular decisions.
April 10, 2018
Chicago's proposed undergraduate business major was short-lived, but the economics faculty found a way to save it, as a new "track."
January 19, 2018
New study says economics textbooks underrepresent women in both real-life and imagined examples -- and that fixing that could help attract more women to the field.