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