In this paper, I consider the role women economists played in the production of U.S. income and tax distribution studies over three decades beginning in the 1920s. Although related to and clearly influenced by consumption economics, these studies evolved along the boundaries of three distinct...

Leveraging a “quasi-experiment” where some of the faculty at a U.S. university unexpectedly saw their teaching loads increase, we test whether the steeper requirement affected student evaluations of teaching (SET). Using the university’s aggregated SET, we find the instructors assigned...