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