The 2023 Kuznets Mini-Conference: Norms, Gender, and Development

Held in conjunction with the 32nd Kuznets Lecture, the Kuznets Mini-Conference on Norms, Gender, and Development highlighted current work in these areas. 

Program Schedule

7:30-8:00 Breakfast

8:00-8:10 Opening Remarks: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard University), 32nd Annual Kuznets Memorial speaker

8:10-9:40 Session 1: Labor Market

• Alexia Delfino (Bocconi University) “Female Entrepreneurship and Trust in the Market”
• Naila Shofia (National University of Singapore) “Why Veil? Religious Headscarves and the Public Role of Women”
• Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi University) “Labor Markets Matching in Indonesia: Estimating Employers’ Preferences with Incentivized Resume Rating”

9:40 – 10:00 am Coffee Break

10:00 – 11:30 am Session 2: Social Norms

• Lucia Corno (Cattolica University) “Norms Replacement. A Field Experiment on Ending Female Genital Cutting”
• Giulia Caprini (Oxford University) “Visual Bias”
• Salma Mousa (Yale University) “Gender & Social (Dis)Trust: Results from a Global Field Experiment”

11:30 – 12:15 pm Lunch

12:15 – 1:00 pm Plenary Panel: Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics), Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard University), and Rohini Pande (Yale University)

1:00 – 3:00 pm Session 3: Children and Education

• Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin) “Gender Based Violence and Education: Evidence from Mozambique”
• Michela Carlana (Harvard Kennedy School) “Some are More Equal than Others: School Tracking and Teachers’ Recommendation”
• Guilhem Cassan (University of Namur) “Sex-Selective Abortions and Instrumental Births as the Two Faces of the Stopping Rule. New Measures and World Evidence”
• Lore Vandewalle (Geneva Graduate Institute) “Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda”

3:00 pm: Concluding Remarks

Learn more about this research

• ELIANA LA FERRARA
• THE KUZNETS MEMORIAL LECTURES
• WATCH THE 31ST KUZNETS LECTURE