Meredith Loken, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Fellow, Modern War Institute, West Point
From the Ku Klux Klan to Identity Evropa, women actively participate in white nationalist and other right-wing reactionary organizations. In the Americas and Western Europe, women often work as logisticians and mobilizers, and on the front-line they commit terrorism in the name of right-wing...
David Marx, Associate Professor of Psychology; Elected Member, Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, San Diego State University
One promising approach to increasing women’s representation in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) is to expose female students to math-talented female peer role models (PRMs). Exposure to female PRMs may serve as a buffer against the negative stereotypes about women...
Tiffany Barnes, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky
Legislatures worldwide are dominated by wealthy elites, who are often out of touch with the needs and problems of ordinary citizens. Research shows that the underrepresentation of the working class in terms of policy processes and outcomes. Yet, the research has largely focused on blue-collar representatives, who are primarily men. Working-class women are more likely to hold pink-collar jobs, or low-status occupations dominated by women. We argue that pink-collar legislators are...
Brit Grosskopf, WAPPP Fellow; Professor of Economics, University of Exeter Business School
We present a natural field experiment designed to examine price discrimination in retail markets. This is done by examining portion sizes served in British Carvery Restaurants. Carvery restaurants serve...
Claudia Olivetti, Professor, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College; Research Associate, Labor Studies and Development of the American Economy Programs, National Bureau of Economic Development
Why do competitive firms provide paid parental leave (PPL) and which firms provide it when governments do not (or do) provide leave? This talk offers a simple theoretical explanation for private provision. It then uses newly...
Nishith Prakash, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut
Prakash discusses the impact of a program in rural Zambia that provides bicycles to girls going to school. In estimating the causal impact on education and empowerment, preliminary findings from the study suggest that the bicycle reduced the commuting time to school by 35 minutes – a third of the total commute time. In addition, school absenteeism dropped 27 percent and punctuality...
When fighters exit violent groups, or when groups are defeated on the battlefield, many members seek to rejoin mainstream society and reconcile with their communities. Littman presents data from a study conducted in 57 communities in Maiduguri, Nigeria, a hotspot of Boko Haram violence, finding that women are much...
Sally Nuamah, Assistant Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Despite complaints about a “boy crisis” in schools, girls in many parts of the world continue to face unnecessary obstacles to getting an adequate education. Many girls experience sexual assault and harassment at school, lack bathroom facilities they need during their menstrual periods, and must contend with gender stereotyping that keeps them from expressing their true...
Aislinn Bohren, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Discrimination has been widely studied in economics and other disciplines. In addition to identifying evidence of discrimination, economists often categorize the source as either taste-based or statistical. Categorizing discrimination in this way can be valuable for policy design and welfare analysis. We argue that a further categorization is...
Ivona Hideg, WAPPP Fellow; Canada Research Chair, Organizational Leadership; Associate Professor of OB/HRM, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University
Parental leaves are critical for gender equality as they help...
