Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices with Muriel Niederle

Gender Attitudes and Intra-household Bargaining: Effects on Career-life Outcomes Across the Globe with Kathleen McGinn: Gender inequality in workplaces and in homes around the globe reflects individual attitudes and abilities, intra-household bargaining and legal and socio-cultural influences. Research that considers factors across the individual, household and cultural l... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Rebel Queens and Black Diamonds: Gender Politics in African Armed Groups with Zoe Marks by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Opting Out among Women with Elite Education: Evidence, Causes, and Societal Consequences with Joni Hersch: Hersch’s research shows that female graduates of elite institutions have lower labor market involvement than their counterparts from less selective institutions, with the gap most pronounced among those with children, and especially mothers with an MBA. ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Uncovering the Origins of the Gender Gap in Political Ambition: Early Life Experiences, Political socialization, and Candidate Emergence with Jennifer Lawless: Research on women’s candidate emergence identifies a substantial gender gap in political ambition that is well established by the time women and men enter the professions from which political candidates ten to emerge. More specifically, women are one-thi... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Explaining Rape During Civil War with Dara Kay Cohen: Why do some armed groups commit massive wartime rape, while others never do? Using an original dataset, I describe the substantial variation in rape by armed actors during recent civil wars and test a series of competing causal explanations. I find evide... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Are Two Heads Always Better Than One? Stereotyping of Minority Duos in Work Groups with Denise Lewin Loyd: Is two better than one (or three)? In this seminar, Loyd explores the dynamics of groups with minority duos (such as two women in a group of men). Though many believe that it is worse to be the “only one” in a group, this work finds that men evaluate ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Reducing the Caretaker Penalty: Norms, Laws and Organizational Policy with Shelley Correll: A growing body of research finds that mothers and other caretakers experience disadvantages in the workplace. Professor Correll will present recent research that uncovers the social psychological mechanisms producing these disadvantages. Her argument dem... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Exploring Viewer Reactions to Media Coverage of Female Politicians wtih Joanna Everitt: The first is based on a paper I will be presenting at the ECPR conference in early September titled “Exploring Viewer Reactions to Media Coverage of Female Politicians.” This paper explores voters’ responses to non-verbal cues provided by politicians and... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Intra-Household Bargaining Power in the Context of HIV Prevention: An Application to Married Couples in Rural Malawi with Berit Gerritzen: Gender inequality has been identified by UNAIDS as a key driver of the HIV epidemic. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of all HIV-infected people live, young women are up to eight times more likely than men to be infected. Using panel data from the... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success? with Lakshmi Iyer: We examine whether women’s electoral success induces greater female political participation in subsequent elections using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men, and constituency level data on India’s state electio... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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The Girls of War in 1914 and 2014: The Evolution of the Protection Racket with Laura Sjoberg: How have gender roles in war changed over the last century? As women have openly joined militaries and paramilitary organizations, the roles of women in service have advanced and diversified. In the United States, the Combat Exclusion Policy was recently... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

78 min listen

Gender and Ethnicity in Parliamentary Representation with Liza Mügge: How does race and gender intersect in a European context and play out in parliamentary representation? While under-representation of both women and ethnic minorities has received considerable attention, European research traditionally has treated women a... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Gender and Group Decision-Making: Eliciting and Acting Upon Expertise with Katie Coffman: From faculty meetings and student projects to corporate boards and consulting firms, many decisions are made by groups rather than by individuals. In these settings, individuals may bring differing levels of knowledge and expertise to the table; therefor... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Progress on Gender Diversity for Corporate Boards: Are We Running in Place? with Cathy Tinsley: Despite rhetoric supporting the advancement of women on corporate boards, the evidence of any progress in the last decade is meager (outside countries with mandated gender quotas). Archival board data (approximately 5000 U.S. publicly traded firms) from ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense: Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality in Organizations with Robin Ely: Why has women’s professional advancement stalled? A widely accepted explanation is that women’s family obligations conflict with long hours of jobs, hampering their advancement into senior organizational positions. The commonly championed solution has... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Stereotype Accuracy: Do College Women Miss the Mark When Estimating the Impact of Maternal Employment on Children’s Development with Wendy Goldberg: Decades after the second wave feminist movement, how do today’s college-aged women think about the effects of combining work and motherhood on children’s outcomes? In Goldberg’s study, she compared how students estimated the effect to meta-analytic effec... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Women and Power: Hard to Earn, Difficult to Signal, and Easy to Lose with Victoria Brescoll: Although women have made great in attaining positions of power in recent decades, there still remains barriers to women in not only continuing to attain these positions, but also in maintaining them. Women face different challenges than men in the quest ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Work-Family Policy in the U.S. with Jane Waldfogel: The American family is changing, but our public policies have not kept pace. In 1967, 2/3 of American children had at least one stay-at-home parent, and only 1/3 had all their parents working. Today, because of increases in maternal employment (and singl... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

74 min listen

Women and the Plough: The Historical Origins of Gender Norms in Society with Alberto Alesina: To better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society, Professor Alesina tests the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender divisi... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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More Women Can Run with Kira Sanbonmatsu: Sanbonmatsu discusses her new book (coauthored with Susan J. Carroll), titled “More Women Can Run: Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures,” (Oxford University Press, 2013). Analyzing nationwide surveys of state legislators conducted by the Center ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Imposed Versus Desired Professional Identities: Embracing, Passing, Revealing and their Consequences with Erin Reid: This field study of a strategy consulting firm explores how men and women cope with organizational pressures to construct a professional identity that involves full devotion to work. Reid finds that while some people easily embrace this imposed identity,... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Gender, Competitiveness and Career Choices with Muriel Niederle: Gender differences in education choices are persistent, with females being much less likely to choose STEM fields than males. What, if any, is the role of gender differences in psychological attributes that have received a lot of attention in the behavio... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Women's Career Negotiations with Hannah Riley Bowles: Hannah Riley Bowles will review some of the latest research on how gender influences career-related negotiations and discuss practical implications. Participants will receive a workbook with questions to help them prepare for career-related negotiations. by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Do boys and girls respond differently to academic competition? with Robert Jensen: This paper examines whether social stigma or peer sanctions associated with academic achievement or effort adversely affects girls’ school performance (in absolute terms, or relative to boys). The effects of the introduction of a point system and “leader... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Competing At All Costs: Dysfunctional Competition and Gender with Pinar Fletcher: Costly sabotage occurs when individuals risk incurring losses in order to hurt their competitors. When are individuals more likely to engage in such dysfunctionally competitive behavior? Are there any gender differences in propensity to engage in costly ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity with Jeni Klugman: The constraints facing women and girls worldwide range from epidemic levels of gender-based violence to biased laws and norms that prevent them from owning property, working, and making decisions about their own lives. The World Bank’s new book, “Voice a... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Climbing the Ladder: Gender and Careers in Public Service with Amy E. Smith: While gender equity is a core value in public service, women continue to be underrepresented in the top-level of leadership of public sector organizations. Existing explanations for why more women do not advance to top leadership positions consider facto... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Gender and Moral Decision-Making wtih Jooa Julia Lee: Virtually all normative and descriptive models of moral judgment view an agent’s gender as irrelevant to judgments of moral permissibility — whether an action such as sacrificing one life to save five others is carried out by a man or a woman does not qu... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Risk in the background: How Men and Women Respond with Alexandra van Geen: Men and women respond differently to risk. Women are more risk averse than men, which has a significant impact on how they make decisions. Exploring this topic, Alexandra van Geen runs a series of experiments to evaluate under what conditions women an... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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Women, Business and the Law: Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality with Sarah Iqbal: Men and women throughout the world want to provide for their families and ensure their children have a good start in life. Often, the chance to start a business or get a job is the surest way to accomplish this goal. But how can we be sure that women ... by Women and Public Policy Program Seminar Series

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