SI 2020 Gender in the Economy

Jessica Goldberg, Claudia Goldin, Seema Jayachandran, Claudia Olivetti, and Tom Vogl, Organizers

July 24-25, 2020

on Zoom.us

Friday, July 24
	FORMAT: 20-25 minutes for the presentation and in the remaining time a moderator will coordinate the discussion by reading selected questions and comments submitted in the Q&A or Chat to which the authors will respond.
12:30 pm	Opening Remarks
	Papers on Women and Household Finance Issues
12:35 pm	Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap
1:20 pm	Simone G. Schaner, University of Southern California and NBER Erica M. Field, Duke University and NBER Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER Charity M. Troyer Moore, Yale University On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms (slides)
2:05 pm	Mention of Three Additional Papers on Women and Household Finance Issues Emma Riley, Oxford University “Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda” (video) Luigi Guiso, EIEF Luana Zaccaria, EIEF “From Patriarchy to Partnership: Gender Equality and Household Finance” (slides) (video) Ana Maria Montoya, University of Chile Eric Parrado, IADB and ESE Business School Alex Solis, Uppsala University Raimundo Undurraga, New York University “Bad Taste: Gender Discrimination in the Consumer Credit Market” (slides) (video)
2:10 pm	Break
2:20 pm	Victimization, Gender, and Covid-19 Grant Recipients Five (6-minute) Egg-Timers Heidi Stöckl, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Gerry Mshana, National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania “The Effect of COVID-19 on Women, Livelihood, and Violence in Mwanza, Tanzania” Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia Carmit Segal, University of Zurich “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in US Cities” Sonia R. Bhalotra, University of Essex Emilia Brito Rebolledo, Brown University Damian Clarke, University of Chile Pilar Larroulet, University of Maryland Francisco Pino, University of Chile “COVID-19 and Domestic Violence – Evidence from Rolling Quarantines in Chile” Keith Finlay, U.S. Census Bureau Michael G. Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan Brittany Street, University of Missouri “The Determinants and Aftermath of Victimization in US Households and the Implications of COVID-19”
	Papers on Victimization, Vulnerability, and Violence Against Women
2:50 pm	Eleonora Guarnieri, University of Exeter Ana Tur-Prats, University of California at Merced Cultural Distance and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (slides)
3:35 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Girija Borker, The World Bank Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women (slides)
4:30 pm	Roee Levy, Tel Aviv University Martin Mattsson, National University of Singapore The Effects of Social Movements: Evidence from #MeToo (slides)
5:15 pm	Mention of Three Additional Papers on Victimization, Vulnerability, and Violence Ing-Haw Cheng, Dartmouth College and NBER Alice Hsiaw, Brandeis University “Reporting Sexual Misconduct in the #MeToo Era” (video) Andreas Kotsadam, University of Oslo Espen Villanger, University of Oslo “Jobs and Intimate Partner Violence “Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia” (video)
	Anke Becker, Harvard Business School "On the Economic Origins of Restrictions on Women's Sexuality" (video)
5:20 pm	Victimization, Gender, and Covid-19 Grant Recipients Four (6-minute) Egg-Timers Erica M. Field, Duke University and NBER Ursula T. Aldana, Institute for Peruvian Studies “The Impact of COVID-19 on Intimate Partner Violence in Urban Peru” Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER Scott Cunningham, Baylor University Gregory DeAngelo, Claremont Graduate University Yunie Le, Claremont Graduate University Anuar Assamidanov, Claremont Graduate University “COVID-19, Shelter-in-Place, and Domestic Violence” Sarah J. Baird, George Washington University Manisha Shah, UCLA and NBER “The Shadow Pandemic: COVID-19 and Violence Against Adolescent Girls in LMICs” Bilge Erten, Northeastern University Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College Silvia Prina, Northeastern University “COVID-19 Movement Restrictions and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the US”
5:50 pm	Adjourn
Saturday, July 25
12:30 pm	Opening Remarks
	Papers on Women's Well Being and Children's Health Joint with the Children Group
12:35 pm	Daniel Halim, The World Bank Hillary C. Johnson, The World Bank Elizaveta Perova, The World Bank Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Indonesia
1:20 pm	Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER Laura R. Wherry, New York University and NBER Diana G. Foster, University of California at San Francisco The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion
2:05 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER Hâle Utar, Grinnell College Globalization, Gender, and the Family (slides)
3:00 pm	Mention of Three Additional Papers on Women’s Well Being and Children’s Health
	Scott Kim, University of Pennsylvania Petra Moser, New York University and NBER Women in Science. Lessons from the Baby Boom (video)
	Hanno Foerster, Boston College Untying the Knot: How Child Support and Alimony Affect Couples’ Dynamic Decisions and Welfare (slides) (video)
	Sandra Aguilar, Columbia University Eva O. Arceo-Gomez, Univerisad Iberoamericana Elia De la Cruz Toledo He, Loyola Marymount University “Inside the Black Box of Child Penalties” (slides)(video)
	Papers on Women and Education across the World
3:05 pm	Claudia Senik, Paris School of Economics Naomi Friedman-Sokuler, Bar-Ilan University From Pink-Collar to STEM fields. Cultural Persistence and Diffusion of Socialist Gender Norms (slides)
3:50 pm	Break
4:05 pm	Itzik Fadlon, University of California, San Diego and NBER Frederik P. Lyngse, University of Copenhagen Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen Early Career, Life-Cycle Choices, and Gender
4:50 pm	Josefa Aguirre, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Juan Matta, New York University Ana Maria Montoya, Universidad de Chile Joining the Men's Club: The Returns to Pursuing High-earnings Male-dominated Fields for Women
5:35 pm	Mention of Three Additional Papers on Women and Education Across the World
	Carolyn Sloane, University of California at Riverside Erik Hurst, University of Chicago and NBER Dan Black, University of Chicago A Cross-Cohort Analysis of Human Capital Specialization and the College Gender Wage Gap (slides) (video)
	Eric V. Edmonds, Dartmouth College and NBER Benjamin Feigenberg, University of Illinois at Chicago Jessica Leight, International Food Policy Research Institute Advancing the Agency of Adolescent Girls (slides) (video)
	Yana Gallen, University of Chicago Melanie Wasserman, University of California at Los Angeles Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice (video)
5:40 pm	Adjourn