This presentation is based on work originally done in Ekaterina V. Peneva and Jeremy B. Rudd (2017), “The Passthrough of Labor Costs to Price Inflation,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol. 49 (December), pp. 1777–802.
As a longtime member of the AEA, I am proud of the work our association has done to collect data and study diversity in the economics profession. Among the questions raised by the AEA’s work on this topic is why relatively few women and minorities seem to consider economics as a concentration in college.