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Diane Lim urges 'intersectional' economics and better data at Northwest diversity conference
Summary
Keynote speaker Diane Lim urged economists to analyze economic outcomes by intersecting identities, criticized gaps in federal data for groups such as Asian women, and described the short-lived Treasury 'Equity Hub' created under a Biden executive order.
Diane Lim, a veteran economist and former director of the Treasury Department’s Equity Hub, told attendees at the Northwest Public Employees Diversity Conference that economists should adopt an 'intersectional' approach to economic policy to better understand who is missing from aggregate measures and why. "President Biden's executive order is the one that actually created my office at Treasury called the Equity Hub," Lim said, recounting the office’s aims to make the empirical case for what she called a modern supply-side approach that invests in people.
Lim framed intersectional economics as a move beyond coarse categories toward disaggregated analysis of subgroups — for…
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