SI 2024 Gender in the Economy
Organized by Jessica Goldberg, Claudia Goldin, Pamela Jakiela, Claudia Olivetti, and Barbara Petrongolo
Supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
July 23-24, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA, zoom.us
Tuesday, July 23
Lunch - Monteverde Restaurant, Royal Sonesta Hotel, lobby level
Tuesday - University BC Room, Level 1, East Tower
1:00 pm

The Ms. Allocation of Talent

Moritz Lubczyk, Rockwool Foundation Berlin
Petra Moser, New York University and NBER
1:50 pm

The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military

Kyle Greenberg, West Point and NBER
Melanie Wasserman, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
E. Anna Weber, United States Military Academy at West Point
2:40 pm
Break
2:50 pm
Egg Timers, ten-minute presentations
2:50pm

Who You Going to Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement

Kristy Buzard, Syracuse University
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
Olga B. Stoddard, Brigham Young University and NBER
3:00 pm

Experimental Evidence on Rural Childcare Provision

Aletheia Donald, The World Bank
Sara Lowes, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Julia Vaillant, The World Bank
3:10 pm

How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail: Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Britain

Grant Goehring, Boston University
Walker Hanlon, Northwestern University and NBER
3:20 pm

Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes Among Physician Mothers

Anupam Jena, Harvard University and NBER
David Slusky, University of Kansas and NBER
Lilly Springer, University of Kansas
3:30 pm

Price and Prejudice: Gender Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

Sher Afghan Asad, Lahore University of Management Sciences
Husnain F. Ahmad, The University of the South Sewanee
Hadia Majid, Lahore University of Management Sciences
3:40 pm

The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy (slides)

Yana Gallen, University of Chicago
Juanna S. Joensen, University of Chicago
Eva Rye. Johansen, Aarhus University
Gregory Veramendi, Royal Holloway, University of London (RH)
4:00 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Gendered Language

Pamela Jakiela, Williams College
Owen Ozier, Williams College
5:00 pm

Of Cattle and Women: Animal Domestication and Gender Roles in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lucienne Talba Jr, University of Toronto
5:50 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Reception, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Rooms
6:30 pm
Group Dinner
Wednesday, July 24
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Wednesday - Skyline AB Room, Level 2, West Tower
9:00 am

The Household at Work: A Field Experiment in the Rohingya Refugee Camps

Yueh-ya Hsu, University of Chicago
Reshmaan N. Hussam, Harvard University and NBER
Erin M. Kelley, University of Chicago and NBER
Gregory Lane, University of Chicago and NBER
9:50 am

(Not) Thinking about the Future: Inattention and Maternal Labor Supply

Ana Costa-Ramón, University of Zurich
Ursina Schaede, Tufts University
Michaela Slotwinski, University of Zurich
Anne Ardila Brenøe, University of Zurich
10:40 am
Break
10:50 am

Conflict and Female Leadership: Evidence from Colombia

Francisco Eslava, University of British Columbia
11:40 am

The Missing Link(s): Women and Intergenerational Mobility

Lukas Althoff, Stanford University
Harriet M. Brookes Gray, Yale University
Hugo Reichardt, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internactional
12:30 pm
Lunch - Ballroom B, second floor
Joint paper with Personnel Economics
1:30 pm

Family-Friendly Workplace Policies (slides)

Julian Costas-Fernandez, University College London
Sebastian Findeisen, University of Konstanz
Anna Raute, Queen Mary University of London
Uta Schönberg, University College London
2:20 pm
Break
2:30 pm

The Impact of Denying a Wanted Abortion on Women and Children (slides)

Juliana Londoño-Vélez, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Estefania Saravia, University of California, Los Angeles
3:40 pm

The Political Economy of Laws to "Protect" Women (slides)

Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Hanno Foerster, Boston College
Anne Hannusch, University of Bonn
Michèle Tertilt, University of Mannheim
4:30 pm
Adjourn