Monica Essig Aberg
@M_EssigAberg
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@BerkeleyEcon PhD Student / Fmr @PrincetonEcon IR Section RA, @Georgetown alum / Phoenix-raised / labor, philosophy, environment, and more (she/her)
Joined September 2020
For updated information, see the live document here:
What’s the gender composition of the newest cohort of US Econ PhD students? My peers and I found which “top-ranked” schools did well this year—Yale, Michigan, UCSD. And which schools have room for improvement—Penn, Minnesota, and many others, including Princeton and Harvard.
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RT @nberpubs: Gendered roles have converged in the workplace, but not at home. New evidence suggests that the inelasticity of men's housewo…
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On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day we should ask, settler institutions generated prosperity *for who*?
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” #NobelPrize
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RT @TrevonDLogan: Actually, they do not. Quantitative social scientists regularly drop subsamples for their research and obscure it. For ex…
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RT @antoparedes: When I entered Yale in 2017, my cohort was 30% women. During my period there, I saw the effort of female professors and al…
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@SempriniJason It’s just one (maybe imperfect) measure of “gender diversity”, but I won’t disaggregate for privacy reasons - and because I don’t know for many schools
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RT @ctheoharides: Always proud to be a Michigan alum. Way back in 2008 my first year cohort was 50% female. Forever go blue!
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@CaltechEconThry I couldn’t find a connection😭 Feel free to send me the info for the first year cohort if you have it and I will add CalTech!
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RT @iishivani: @M_EssigAberg This is really good to know! Thanks for putting it out there. I’m guessing it’s hard to get the information bu…
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@estebanjq3 Agreed, appreciate the plug! I have some info from schools where I have connections, but I wasn’t able to track these programs systematically
Here is the gender composition of a few first year cohorts from programs outside the sample of US economics departments.
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@dannyegold Those are ones I couldn’t find - I’ll update the thread as people send me more info :)
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