- [Christina] The most important thing that I try to pass on
is the sense that economics is an empirical field,
then if you get new empirical evidence,
you're going to have to change the way
you think about the economy.
I think being open to that
is the most important thing for a young economist to know.
Economists -- not a group with a lot of Marys, Natashas or Juanitas,
and that's caused a lot of controversy.
However, what's often overlooked are the actual female economists
who are pushing economics forward
by addressing real-world issues.
Welcome to Women in Economics.
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I grew up in a family
where public policy was discussed a lot.
I was planning to be a lawyer,
so I was going to major in Government.
And as part of the Government major at my college,
you had to take a year of Economics.
I was about three weeks in, and I was hooked,
like the government major's gone, the lawyer's gone,
I was in an Economist.
Christina Romer is a macro economic historian.
She takes the tools of modern economics,
statistics, and data
and applies them to historical questions.
Christie's researcher agenda throughout her career
has focused on a course set of topics
about economic fluctuations and business cycles.