When you do economic research, you have three pieces.
I think of them as balls
that I want floating up all the time.
I'm juggling them,
and one of them is the idea.
I have to begin with "What's the question,
what's important?"
- [Narrator] Economists!
Not a group with a lot of Marys, Natashas, or Juanitas,
and that's caused a lot of controversy.
However, what's often overlooked are the actual female economists
who are economics forward by addressing real world issues.
Welcome to Women in Economics.
- [Ilyana] One thing I definitely learned from Claudia
is to approach economic research like a detective.
I think, especially,
when you're working with economic history,
when you can't just download a cleaned-up dataset.
You really have to go searching open, dusty boxes
and look under tocks.
- [Lawrence] She is the consummate, economic historian.
She has been the innovator and pioneer
on bringing economical logic and historical and better data
to understanding women's role in the economy,
and then she is a fantastic labor economist.