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When you do economic research,
you have three pieces.

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I think of them as balls

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that I want floating up
all the time.

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I'm juggling them,

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and one of them is the idea.

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I have to begin with
"What's the question,

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what's important?"

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- [Narrator] Economists!

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Not a group with a lot
of Marys, Natashas, or Juanitas,

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and that's caused
a lot of controversy.

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However, what's often overlooked
are the actual female economists

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who are economics forward
by addressing real world issues.

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Welcome to Women in Economics.

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- [Ilyana] One thing I definitely
learned from Claudia

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is to approach economic
research like a detective.

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I think, especially,

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when you're working
with economic history,

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when you can't just download
a cleaned-up dataset.

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You really have to go searching
open, dusty boxes

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and look under tocks.

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- [Lawrence] She is the consummate,
economic historian.

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She has been the innovator and pioneer

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on bringing economical logic
and historical and better data

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to understanding
women's role in the economy,

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and then she is a fantastic
labor economist.