The American Economic Association (AEA)’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) has awarded the 2016 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award to Cecilia Rouse, dean of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Named after the first chair of CSWEP and given annually since 1998, the award honors an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession through her achievements, efforts to increase understanding of how women can advance in the profession and/or mentoring of others.

Rouse, the Lawrence and Shirley Katzman and Lewis and Anna Ernst Professor in the Economics of Education and professor of economics and public affairs at the Wilson School, studies labor economics with a focus on the economics of education. She is the founding director of Princeton’s Education Research Section, is a member of the National Academy of Education and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 1998-99 Rouse served a year in the White House at the National Economic Council, and from 2009-2011 she served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Rouse will accept the award at the annual CSWEP business meeting and award ceremony held on Jan. 7 during the 2017 AEA meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Last year, the Wilson School’s Janet Currie received the award.

CSWEP is a standing committee of the American Economic Association charged with promoting the careers and monitoring the progress of women economists. It endeavors to raise awareness of the challenges that are unique to women’s careers in economics and of best practices for increasing diversity in the economics profession.