The Lived Experiences of Top Women Contributors to Leading Economic Education Journals

Abstract

Despite the substantial literature on women in economics, very little qualitative work has been devoted to exploring women’s lived experiences, and even less so on their presence in the economic education subfield. Through interviewing top female contributors to the three leading economic education journals, new insights regarding their experiences within the profession are presented, including challenges they have faced and addressed, the roles colleagues and institutions play in their scholarship, and how research itself fits into their overall careers.

Gender and Intermediate Microeconomics Course Performance: Does Course Type Matter?

“…Goolsbee (2019) contends “citing empirical studies can keep a lot of students interested in micro [sic] who might have drifted away had it remained overly abstract” (p. 270). Female students may be particularly attracted to economics when they are able to see its real-world applications (Ferrara & Asarta, 2022). Prior studies in mathematics have also found significant and positive correlations between interest and course performance (Köller et al, 2001; Schiefele & Csikszentmihalyi, 1995).…”