G²LM|LIC Research Conference
April 07, 2025 - April 08, 2025
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IZA

G²LM|LIC Research Conference

April 07, 2025 - April 08, 2025
Room 1.04, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, London, UK
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Organizers: Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA), Oriana Bandiera (LSE and IZA)
Event Manager: Dominik Spitza

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"

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)

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 "

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

Contact

Forschungsinstitut zur
Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA)

Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5–9
53113 Bonn, Germany