The PhD Conference in Economics and Business was a unique Australian innovation when it commenced in the late 1980s …. With the high-quality feedback from discussants, the conference was a productive special event, even horizon-broadening for … some students. The conference is now a partnership between six universities and has involved almost 900 students from many …

We document the representation of female economists on the conference programs at the NBER Summer Institute from 2001 …, within conference programs, we find that when a woman organizes the program, the share of female authors and discussants is …