Gender, Work, and Careers

1 credits · Undergraduate

Why do gender gaps in earnings and advancement persist even as other labor market outcomes - such as educational attainment and labor force participation - have converged in recent decades? This seminar examines economic mechanisms that may generate or sustain these gaps, including preferences, constraints, discrimination, organizational design, family formation, social norms, and sorting. The course involves close engagement with empirical research. Students will learn to identify a paper's research question, motivation, empirical strategy, results, mechanisms, limitations, and policy implications.