Venice Summer Institute 2019: Gender in the Developed and Developing World
Venice International University, San Servolo, Venice
Gender differences in human capital investments, labor market outcomes, and other socioeconomic outcomes – in both the developed and developing world – is an active area of research in economics. In general, different scholars have been working on the topic in developed countries than in developing countries, and the two literatures are somewhat distinct. The goal of this workshop is to stimulate exchange between these two related streams of literature. We envision a set of papers using wide-ranging data sources and methods, including laboratory experiments, randomized field experiments, observational (survey or administrative) data, structural approaches, and strategically-designed surveys.
Keynote speakers:
Martha Bailey, University of Michigan
Christopher Udry, Northwestern University
Papers
On the Economic Origins of Constraints on Women's Sexuality
ANKE BECKER (Harvard University)
Sharing the Pie: Undernutrition, Intra-household Allocation, and Poverty
ROSELLA CALVI
Job Security and Fertility Decisions
MARTA LOPES
Human Capital Investments, Differential Fecundity, and the Marriage Market
HANZHE ZHANG (Michigan State University)