Cecilia Rouse was awarded the 2017 Bell Award from the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women inwards the Economics Profession, which "recognizes as well as honors an private who has furthered the condition of women inwards
the economics profession." Lisa Barrow has published a brusk "Interview alongside Bell Award Winner Cecilia E. Rouse" inwards the
CSWEP News (2017, II, pp. 1, 12-13). I was struck past times 2 bits of life advice offered past times Rouse, worth mulling over every bit the novel yr approaches.
Barrow: "Two things that I listen you lot tell repeatedly are “careers are long” as well as “there are alone 24 hours inwards a day.” Can you lot elaborate on what you lot mean?"
Rouse: "These are in all probability my favorite as well as (from my perspective) most profound pieces of advice for women … as well as genuinely everyone. By `careers are long' I hateful that i cannot response all questions inwards i unmarried newspaper or dissertation. I then oftentimes come across students scrap to take away their papers nether command every bit they endeavor to response every interrogation that mightiness come upwards up inwards the course of written report of their research, which tin compass the axe oftentimes Pb them away from the master interrogation of the paper. Of course, around development is practiced as well as healthy. But I likewise remind students that if they pick out a labor that involves research, they volition take away a lifetime to address many questions. In fact, I likewise produce non believe that whatever i newspaper is always dispositive then it’s genuinely quite fruitless to try. Rather, nosotros advance our agreement of the footing past times putting together pieces of testify from many unlike places, researchers, as well as contexts as well as seeing the film that emerges.
"As for at that topographic point beingness alone 24 hours inwards the day, this is the slice of advice close which I experience the strongest, to a greater extent than oftentimes than non because I come across people trying to elude it every day. The maxim itself should genuinely last quite familiar to economists every bit it’s genuinely simply a contestation close a fourth dimension constraint. But every bit nosotros force alongside ever-improving technology as well as the illusion of multi-tasking, nosotros believe that nosotros tin compass the axe somehow shell it. However, spell nosotros tin compass the axe stay an income constraint past times giving an private to a greater extent than money, nosotros take away silent to observe a fashion to compass anyone to a greater extent than fourth dimension (not that nosotros don’t try!). This is genuinely the hardest, most intractable of constraints. And it basically way that nosotros all take away to brand choices— existent choices. One cannot `have it all' (which is antithetical to the notion of a budget constraint) but i tin compass the axe maximize one’s utility dependent champaign to the fourth dimension reality. Fundamentally this way that it is critical to position our highest priorities as well as produce them (and endeavor to produce them well) as well as larn to tell no to others demands. One cannot produce everything as well as it’s useless to try."
Barrow: "Any final pieces of wisdom?"
Rouse: ;"Take fourth dimension to relish the small-scale moments of life. One of the highlights of my afternoon is nighttime chocolate alongside coffee."
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