ABSTRACT
Fifty-three monographs with publication dates between 1907 and 1932 received the Hart, Schaffner, and Marx Prize in the U.S.A. The Hart, Schaffner, and Marx Prize provided financial incentives to encourage study of economics. The first woman to receive the award was Yetta Scheftel in 1915; the final woman to receive the award was Alma Herbst in 1930. Scheftel is the last academic reference in the social sciences that Yetta published. The careers of Herbst and Mollie Ray Carroll played out admirably given gender discrimination, but otherwise do not stand out. Helen Hohman intermingled child rearing with part-time academic pursuits. Available information suggests that Caroline Ware and Hazel Kyrk had strong academic career outcomes. Kyrk pioneered the initiation of a new academic discipline. The research of all women does include applications of empirical economics. Kyrk was involved in the construction of a statistical forerunner to the consumer price index, and Hohman contributed on cost of living adjustments to wages.
