Women In Economics / Natural resources
Catherine Kling November 16, 2023
Having access to nature can improve lives. But nature is a resource that is undervalued in our economies, and all too often left off the balance sheet. Catherine Kling is an environmental economist at Cornell University in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and has focused much of her career on creating the kind of data that encourages governments to include the value of nature in their economic decision-making. In this special episode of our Women in Economics series, Kling and Journalist Rhoda Metcalfe discuss why putting a price tag on nature will help save it.
Women In Economics / Cross-sector
Eliana La Ferrara September 27, 2023
A functioning economy provides people with access to credit, insurance, and, among other things, investment opportunities. But what happens in poor communities where they are landless and have no wealth? Eliana La Ferrara says the social structure within those communities offers the collateral they need to make the economy work. La Ferrara is an award-winning economist and a professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
Women In Economics / International trade
Nina Pavcnik August 16, 2023
The dramatic opening up of markets to international trade over the past 30 years has been a boon to many developing economies but it has not benefitted everyone. Nina Pavcnik grew up in Yugoslavia and witnessed first-hand the effects of open markets on the lives of people across the border in Italy. Pavcnik is now Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and has become an authority on how international trade affects the poor. Journalist Rhoda Metcalfe sits down with Pavcnik to talk about her research as part of our series on extraordinary Women in Economics.
Women In Economics / Inclusion and gender
Claudia Goldin June 9, 2023
The history of economics has largely been written by men about men. Even when the economics of family became a burgeoning field of study in the 1970s, the woman’s role was hardly talked about. Claudia Goldin is a pioneer in the field of gender economics and her latest book Career and Family places women squarely at the center of the family economics story.
Women In Economics / Labor
Betsey Stevenson January 5, 2023
We often think about the economy as being driven by how productive we are on the job, but the pandemic made it clear that our personal lives and our work lives are in fact deeply linked.
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