Monica Essig Aberg

@BerkeleyEcon PhD Student / Fmr @PrincetonEcon IR Section RA, @Georgetown alum / Phoenix-raised / labor, philosophy, environment, and more (she/her)

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

For updated information, see the live document here: https://t.co/cv3M7uaEPy

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

What’s the gender composition of the newest cohort of US Econ PhD students?

My peers and I found which “top-ranked” schools did well this year—Yale, Michigan, UCSD.

And which schools have room for improvement—Penn, Minnesota, and many others, including Princeton and Harvard.

[NBER @nberpubs]

Gendered roles have converged in the workplace, but not at home. New evidence suggests that the inelasticity of men's housework time might be standing in the way of marriage, from Kyle Hancock, Jeanne Lafortune, and @femonomics https://t.co/87NBT0AqVI

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

normative economics

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day we should ask, settler institutions generated prosperity *for who*?

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

#NobelPrize

[Dr. Trevon D Logan @TrevonDLogan]

Actually, they do not. Quantitative social scientists regularly drop subsamples for their research and obscure it. For example, labor economists would regularly drop all Black people from their analysis. They almost never said this in the title or abstract.

[Antonia Paredes-Haz @antoparedes]

When I entered Yale in 2017, my cohort was 30% women. During my period there, I saw the effort of female professors and allies to increase the number of female students in the program. Changes in admissions can happen <3.

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

@MarthaF_F Thank you!

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

This is all crowd-sourced from 1st- and 2nd-degree connections in the sample cohorts. Some schools are missing if we couldn’t find a connection. While we wanted to count all women and non-binary students, I am almost certainly undercounting non-binary students with this method.

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

@SempriniJason It’s just one (maybe imperfect) measure of “gender diversity”, but I won’t disaggregate for privacy reasons - and because I don’t know for many schools

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

What’s the gender composition of the newest cohort of US Econ PhD students?

My peers and I found which “top-ranked” schools did well this year—Yale, Michigan, UCSD.

And which schools have room for improvement—Penn, Minnesota, and many others, including Princeton and Harvard.

[Caroline Theoharides @ctheoharides]

Always proud to be a Michigan alum. Way back in 2008 my first year cohort was 50% female. Forever go blue!

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

@CaltechEconThry thank you!

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

@CaltechEconThry I couldn’t find a connection😭 Feel free to send me the info for the first year cohort if you have it and I will add CalTech!

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

Correction: Harvard is 7/25 (28%)

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

Updates:
Penn Wharton 2/4 (50%)
Penn Wharton (Finance) 2/7 (29%)
Duke Fuqua (Finance) 0/2 (0%)

For further changes, check out the live document:
https://t.co/cv3M7uaEPy

[Shivani Pandey @iishivani]

@M_EssigAberg This is really good to know! Thanks for putting it out there. I’m guessing it’s hard to get the information but would be nice to
see how things have changed over time. 7/22 is the best gender ratio uchicago has seen so far from what i know.

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

@estebanjq3 Agreed, appreciate the plug! I have some info from schools where I have connections, but I wasn’t able to track these programs systematically

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

Here is the gender composition of a few first year cohorts from programs outside the sample of US economics departments.

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

@dannyegold Those are ones I couldn’t find - I’ll update the thread as people send me more info :)

[Monica Essig Aberg @M_EssigAberg]

@MarthaF_F Good catch, thank you!! I’ll update.