[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you do economic research,\Nyou have three pieces. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think of them as balls Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I want floating up\Nall the time. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm juggling them, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of them is the idea. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have to begin with\N"What's the question, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's important?" Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Narrator] Economists! Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not a group with a lot\Nof Marys, Natashas, or Juanitas, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's caused\Na lot of controversy. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, what's often overlooked\Nare the actual female economists Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are economics forward\Nby addressing real world issues. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to Women in Economics. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Ilyana] One thing I definitely\Nlearned from Claudia Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to approach economic\Nresearch like a detective. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think, especially, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you're working\Nwith economic history, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you can't just download\Na cleaned-up dataset. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You really have to go searching\Nopen, dusty boxes Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look under tocks. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Lawrence] She is the consummate,\Neconomic historian. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She has been the innovator and pioneer Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on bringing economical logic\Nand historical and better data Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to understanding\Nwomen's role in the economy, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then she is a fantastic\Nlabor economist, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had been a leader on work on understanding inequality. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Claudia Dale Goldin was born in 1946 in the Bronx. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was a problem-solver from the beginning. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a child, she avoided the New York City heat Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by spending her summer days playing cards Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or reading in air-conditioned department stores. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And while she always knew she wanted to be a scientist of some kind, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she wasn't always set on economics. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SHe'll tell stories to me about when she first went to the Natural History Museum Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when she was living in the Bronx Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fell in love with mummies Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thought that archeology was going to be her passion. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then she discovered microbiology, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she suddently realized that microscopes uncovered a whole new world of discovery for her. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't until she actually went to college at Cornell Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she first got introduced to economics. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I decidede to become an economist Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I took an economics class from an amazing person named Fred Kahn. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was so excited about the field of industrial organization Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and product markets and regulation Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was infectious. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact, when I went to graduate school at the University of Chicago, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went there to study Industrial Organization. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under the mentorship of Bob Fogel, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Claudia studied AMerican Economic History, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly the economics of slavery\Nand the post civil war south. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SHe had to travel to some southern states to gather archival materials for this research. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldin didn't approach this trip like a traditional economist. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She thought what I should do is hitchhike between the different cities in the south. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She met somebody in one of the archives Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who let her stay at their place, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when she came back, her advisor asked her for a list of the receipts and expenses Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,associated with the trip, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she had no clue that you were supposed to actually stay in hotels and pay for actual travel, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you could get reimbursements. Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By actually staying with the archivists and getting access to archives Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and knowledge that you wouldn't have had, Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it probably created [ ] and understanding that wouldn't have been possible Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you were going through usual channels.