Friday, March 3, 2023
Held in conjunction with the 32nd Kuznets Lecture, the Kuznets Mini-Conference on Norms, Gender, and Development highlighted current work in these areas.
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Julia Luckett
The 2023 Kuznets Mini-Conference: Norms, Gender, and Development
A mini-conference spotlighting the work of early career researchers on topics related to the 32nd Kuznets Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Economic Growth Center.
The 32nd Kuznets Memorial Lecture: Changing Harmful Norms
Eliana La Ferrara of Harvard University delivered the 32nd Annual Kuznets Memorial Lecture on March 2, 2023.
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
Watch 31st Annual Kuznets Memorial Lecture: Political Distortions and Economic Development
Leonard Wantchekon of Princeton University delivered the 31st Annual Kuznets Memorial Lecture "Political Distortions and Economic Development" on March 31, 2022. He discussed recent research on the role of political institutions in economic growth and development, frictions induced by the political process, and institutional reforms that may curb such distortions.
