Doctoral Seminar

Topics in Gender and Family Economics

Time and place: Monday, 4pm – 6 pm, M.12.19, first meeting: October 14

Description: The seminar is targeted at students working in or wishing to work in the fields of gender and family economics. We discuss important papers from these fields in class und work on potential avenues for participants’ own research. In each session, we discuss one or two papers which all participants are expected to have read and for which one participant prepares a short presentation to kick off the discussion. At the end of the term, participants hand in a written research proposal.

List of Papers:
Blau, Francine D., and Lawrence M. Kahn. 2017. "The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and
Explanations." Journal of Economic Literature, 55 (3): 789–865.

Blau, Francine D., and Lisa M. Lynch. 2024. “50 Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers: Women in
Economics, Policy, and Leadership.” IZA Discussion Paper No. 17295.

Cortés, Patricia, and Jessica Pan. 2023. "Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor
Market." Journal of Economic Literature, 61 (4): 1359–1409.

Folke, Olle, and Johanna Rickne. 2020. "All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12 (1): 260–87.

Greenwood, Jeremy, Nezih Guner, and Guillaume Vandenbroucke. 2017. "Family Economics Writ Large." Journal of Economic Literature, 55 (4): 1346–1434.

Haan, Peter, and Victoria Prowse. 2024. "The Heterogeneous Effects of Social Assistance and
Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from a Life Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 16 (2): 127–81.

Kleven, Henrik, Camille Landais, and Jakob Egholt Søgaard. 2019. "Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (4): 181–209.

Lundberg, Shelly. 2022. "Gender Economics and the Meaning of Discrimination." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 112: 588–91.

Lundborg, Petter, Erik Plug, and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen. 2017. "Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments." American Economic Review, 107 (6): 1611–37.

Ortigueira, Salvador, and Nawid Siassi. 2022. “The U.S. tax-transfer system and low-income
households: Savings, labor supply, and household formation.” Review of Economic Dynamics, 44: 184-210.

Voena, Alessandra. 2015. "Yours, Mine, and Ours: Do Divorce Laws Affect the Intertemporal Behavior of Married Couples?" American Economic Review, 105 (8): 2295–2332.

Wu, Chunzan, and Dirk Krueger. 2021. "Consumption Insurance against Wage Risk: Family Labor
Supply and Optimal Progressive Income Taxation." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 13 (1): 79–113.