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