Women in Economics: David Wilcox

March 27, 2019
David Wilcox

David Wilcox, director (ret.) of the research and statistics division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors speaks with Mary Suiter.

“Economics is relevant and it’s important, and it’s much too important to be left to one segment of the population. And historically, the segment has been white privileged males,” says David Wilcox, then-director of the research and statistics division of the Federal Reserve System Board of GovernorsWilcox retired from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2018.. He talks with Mary Suiter, assistant vice president and economic education officer at the St. Louis FedSuiter was at the St. Louis Fed from 2007 to 2023., about his research on the unequal distribution of economic education, the need to change economics classrooms and how it is the responsibility of every member of the economics profession to work toward diversifying the field.

Wilcox and Amanda Bayer co-authored the 2017 paper (PDF): “The Unequal Distribution of Economic Education: A Report on the Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of Economics Majors at US Colleges and Universities.” Bayer was also interviewed for the Women in Economics podcast series.


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This podcast features conversations with women and underrepresented minorities who are making their marks in the field of economics. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the St. Louis Fed or Federal Reserve System.

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