Word: nber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since she walked out of Summers’ January speech at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference in a statement of disagreement with the president’s comments about women’s “intrinsic aptitude” for science, Hopkins has been both exalted as a crusader and assailed as a hysterical feminist who stifles free academic discourse...
Hopkins says she was corresponding with a Boston Globe reporter about another matter later when the reporter asked about the NBER conference...
Even though Summers’ January speech at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference was widely condemned by members of FAS and the national media, few anticipated the firestorm that awaited the president at the Faculty meeting one month later...
...Thursday, Feb. 17, Summers bowed to Faculty pressure and released the transcript of the NBER talk...
What Goldin—who serves as the director of the Program on the Development of the American Economy at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)—says the misrepresentation in the national media frenzy of Summers’ remarks about women in the science at the Jan. 14 NBER conference prompted her to emerge from her long “non-active” approach to University affairs to become a vocal supporter of Summers...