SI 2022 Gender in the Economy: Change and Persistence of Norms
Organized by Jessica Goldberg, Claudia Goldin, Claudia Olivetti, and Manisha Shah
Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
July 28-29, 2022
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Thursday, July 28
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars

Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
Alicia Sasser Modestino, Northeastern University
Muriel Niederle, Stanford University and NBER
Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan and NBER
1:50 pm

Frontier Gender Norms: History and Legacy (slides)

Samuel Bazzi, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Abel Brodeur, University of Ottawa
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
Joanne Haddad, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ECARES)
2:40 pm
Break
2:55 pm

Female Entrepreneurship and Trust in the Market

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Alexia Delfino, Bocconi University
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply (slides)

Barbara Boelmann, University of Cologne
Anna Raute, Queen Mary University of London
Uta Schönberg, University College London
4:50 pm

Does the Gender Composition of an Occupation Affect its Compensation? (slides)

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Goethe University Frankfurt
Alexandra Spitz-Oener, Humboldt University Berlin
5:40 pm
Adjourn
6:15 pm
Reception and Dinner in the Charles Suite
Dinner Speaker: Alice Evans, Kings College London
The Great Gender Divergence
Friday, July 29
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
2022-23 GITE Fellows Session
Amy Burnett Cross, American University
Lisa Ho, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dev Patel, Harvard University
9:50 am

Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Students

Menaka Hampole, Yale School of Management
Francesca Truffa, University of Michigan
Ashley Wong, Barnard College
10:40 am
Break
10:55 am

Designing Gender Equity: Evidence from Hiring Practices and Committees

Tatiana Mocanu, Columbia University
11:45 am

Restrictions on Migration Create Gender Inequality: The Story of China's Left-Behind Children (slides)

Xuwen Gao, Zhejiang University
Wenquan Liang, Jinan University
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER
Ran Song, National University of Singapore
12:35 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm

Paid Work for Women and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the Rwandan Coffee Mills

Deniz Sanin, University of South Carolina - Columbia
2:35 pm

Female Genital Cutting and Bride-Price

Suzanna Khalifa, Sciences Po, Paris
3:25 pm
Break
3:40 pm

Relative Income within Households, Relationship Stress, and Health Problems (slides)

Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University
4:30 pm
Adjourn