G²LM|LIC Research Conference

Program
*** Presentations: 30 minutes *** Q&A: 10 minutes ***
Monday, April 07
09:30 - 09:55
Registration with Tea/Coffee & Pastries
09:55 - 10:00
Welcoming Remarks
10:00 - 11:20
Session A: Fertility and Peripartum Timing
Chair: Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA)
Celine Zipfel (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Female Wage Labour and Fertility: Evidence from the Cut-Flower Industry in Kenya"
Nicholas Kilimani (Makerere University Uganda), Kelvin Mulungu (CIMMYT)
"Peripartum Timing, Agricultural Productivity, Food Security and Child Health in Africa"
11:20 - 11:50
Break
11:50 - 13:10
Session B: Social Norms and Work in India
Chair: Kathleen Beegle (World Bank and IZA)
Priyanka Sarda (Boston College), Achyuta Adharvyu (UC San Diego), Anand Nyshadham (University of Michigan)
"Studying the Latent Demand for Female Labour in Rural India"
Sam Asher (Imperial College London), Rebecca Cai (MIT), Aditi Bhowmick (Harvard Kennedy School), Paul Novosad (Dartmouth)
"Cultural Capital and Access to Opportunity in India"
13:10 - 14:10
Lunch
14:10 - 15:30
Session C: Mobility Barriers to Women's Employment
Chair: Danila Serra (Texas A&M University and IZA)
Rolly Kapoor (UC Santa Cruz), Smit Gade (Good Business Lab)
"Together in Search: Experimental Evidence from Coordinating Travel Among Women Job-Seekers in Urban India"
Shreya Sarkar (UC Berkeley)
"Returns to Capital for Workers: Evidence from a Mobility Intervention with Female Workers"
15:30 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 18:00
Session D: Harassment and Paternalism in the Workplace
Chair: Oriana Bandiera (LSE and IZA)
Karmini Sharma (Imperial College London), Livia Alfonsi (Harvard Business School), Lori Beaman (Northwestern University), Anisha Sharma (Ashoka University)
"Empowering Women through Safety at Work: An Experiment with SMEs in Urban India "
Anaya Dam (Utrecht University), Diego Dabed (Utrecht University)
"LinkinOut Harassment: A Targeted Social Media Experiment to Reduce Workplace Harassment Towards Women in India."
Carl Meyer (Stanford University), Nina Buchmann (Yale University), Colin Sullivan (University of Pittsburgh)
"Paternalistic Discrimination"
18:30
Dinner
Tuesday, April 08
08:30 - 09:00
Welcome with Tea/Coffee & Pastries
09:00 - 11:00
Session E: Promoting Women's Work and Career Advancement
Chair: Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA)
Raymond Robertson (Texas A&M University and IZA), Danila Serra (Texas A&M University and IZA), Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute and IZA), Hamna Ahmad (Lahore School of Economics), Vrinda Chandra (Indian Statistical Institute Delhi)
"From Jobs to Careers: Lifting Constraints to Women’s Career Advancement in South Asia."
Ashley Wong (Tilburg University), Edward Asiedu (University of Ghana), Monica Lambon-Quayefio (University of Ghana), Francesca Truffa (University of Michigan)
"Female Entrepreneurship and Professional Networks"
Amen Jalal (LSE)
"Screening Women Out? Experimenting with Salary Disclosure in Job Ads"
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 13:30
Session F: Long-Term Effects
Chair: Oriana Bandiera (LSE and IZA)
Shaila Ahmed (BRAC), Robin Burgess (LSE), Sheikh Touhidul Haque (BRAC), Marzuk Hossain (BRAC), Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC)
"Intergenerational Impacts of the Ultra-Poor Graduation Program: Early Findings from a 17-Year Follow-Up of an RCT in Bangladesh"
Sakib Mahmood (BRAC), Nina Buchmann (Yale University), Erica Field (Duke University and IZA), Rachel Glennerster (Center for Global Development)
"Long-Term Labour Market Impacts of Adolescent Girls' Empowerment Interventions in Bangladesh"
Manuela Angelucci (University of Texas at Austin and IZA), Daniel Bennett (USC)
"The Long-Term Impact of Depression Pharmacotherapy in India"
13:30
Concluding Remarks & Farewell Lunch
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