Workshop on gender, cultural change, and political economy

Jun
22
09:15 AM - 04:45 PM

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As part of the biennial UBS Center Advisory Board meeting, we organized an academic workshop, which included presentations from board members and members of the Department of Economics. The workshop covered established papers that have not lost their topicality until today – like Marianne Bertrand’s paper on breaking the glass ceiling – to recent studies with new findings – like Raquel Fernández’ study on coming out in America – to unpublished papers on topics like contagious extremism or social preferences and redistributive politics.

Gender Economics

  • Marianne Bertrand - Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway download
  • Nir Jaimovich - The End of Men download

Experience, Cultural Change, and Economic Behavior

  • Ulrike Malmendier - Scarred Consumption download
  • Guilherme Lichand - The Psychological Effects of Poverty on Children's Human Capital Investments download
  • Raquel Fernández - Coming Out in America download

Political Economy

  • Ernst Fehr - Social Preferences and Redistributive Politics (working paper to be published)
  • David Yanagizawa-Drott - Contagious Extremism: Nazi Marches and Radical Voting (together with Joachim Voth and Bruno Caprettini, working paper to be published)
  • Alberto Alesina - Immigration and redistribution download

Host: Joachim Voth, Scientific Director UBS Center - contact

As part of the biennial UBS Center Advisory Board meeting, we organized an academic workshop, which included presentations from board members and members of the Department of Economics. The workshop covered established papers that have not lost their topicality until today – like Marianne Bertrand’s paper on breaking the glass ceiling – to recent studies with new findings – like Raquel Fernández’ study on coming out in America – to unpublished papers on topics like contagious extremism or social preferences and redistributive politics.

Gender Economics

  • Marianne Bertrand - Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway download
  • Nir Jaimovich - The End of Men download

Experience, Cultural Change, and Economic Behavior

  • Ulrike Malmendier - Scarred Consumption download
  • Guilherme Lichand - The Psychological Effects of Poverty on Children's Human Capital Investments download
  • Raquel Fernández - Coming Out in America download

Political Economy

  • Ernst Fehr - Social Preferences and Redistributive Politics (working paper to be published)
  • David Yanagizawa-Drott - Contagious Extremism: Nazi Marches and Radical Voting (together with Joachim Voth and Bruno Caprettini, working paper to be published)
  • Alberto Alesina - Immigration and redistribution download

Host: Joachim Voth, Scientific Director UBS Center - contact

Nir Jaimovich, University of Zurich
Nir Jaimovich, University of Zurich
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley
Ulrike Malmendier, University of California, Berkeley
Guilherme Lichand, University of Zurich
Guilherme Lichand, University of Zurich
Raquel Fernández, New York University
Raquel Fernández, New York University
Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich
Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich
Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
Alberto Alesina, Harvard University

Speakers

Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Prof. Marianne Bertrand
Professor of Economics, Affiliated Professor at the UBS Center

Nir Jaimovich is a macroeconomist who studies business cycles and the dynamics of the labor market. He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an associate editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of Economic Theory. Before joining the University of Zürich, Professor Jaimovich was on the faculty at the Marshall School of Business at USC, Duke University, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Diego. He was also a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Economic Fluctuations and Growth program.

Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business
Prof. Ulrike M. Malmendier

Ulrike Malmendier is the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business and Professor of Economics at the University of California. Her research interests are corporate finance, behavioral economics/behavioral finance, economics of organizations, contract theory, law and economics, law and finance. In 2013, Malmendier was awarded the prestigious Fisher Black Prize from the American Finance Association, given biennially to the top financial scholar under the age of 40. She has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since September 2022.

Assistant Professorship for Child Well-Being and Development supported by UNICEF Switzerland
Guilherme Lichand

Guilherme Lichand is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, and Research Director of the Center for Child Wellbeing and Development at the University of Zurich. He uses lab-in-the-field experiments to study the impacts of poverty on decision-making. Guilherme holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, and has been acknowledged by MIT Technology Review as Brazil's top under-35 social innovator in 2014.

Professor of Economics, New York University
Prof. Raquel Fernández

Raquel Fernández is Professor of Economics at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 1988. She is an Affiliated Professor at University of Oslo, ESOP. Before moving to New York University, she has been a tenured professor at Boston University and the London School of Economics. She serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Literature and has served as advisor to the World Bank’s WDR on Gender Equality and Development.
Her research focuses on sovereign debt, public economics, culture and economics, development and gender issues, inequality, and political economy.

Professor of Economics, Affiliated Professor at the UBS Center

Ernst Fehr received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1986. His work has shown how social motives shape the cooperation, negotiations and coordination among actors and how this affects the functioning of incentives, markets and organisations. His work identifies important conditions under which cooperation flourishes and breaks down. The work on the psychological foundations of incentives informs us about the merits and the limits of financial incentives for the compensation of employees. In other work he has shown the importance of corporate culture for the performance of firms. In more recent work he shows how social motives affect how people vote on issues related to the redistribution of incomes and how differences in people’s intrinsic patience is related to wealth inequality. His work has found large resonance inside and outside academia with more than 100’000 Google Scholar citations and his work has been mentioned many times in international and national newspapers.

Professor of Development and Emerging Markets, Affiliated Professor at the UBS Center

David Yanagizawa-Drott received his PhD from IIES at Stockholm University in 2010. At that point, he was hired as Assistant Professor at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He was then promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. In 2016, he was hired as a full professor at University of Zürich. His research has shown that propaganda can cause violent conflict, studying the impact of hate media during the Rwanda Genocide. David has also examined the role of political protests in shaping policy outcomes and elections, establishing evidence that they can be highly effective in moving public opinion. In developing countries, a lot of his work focuses on the how to improve health outcomes and economic outcomes for poor households. In this line of work, for example, David implemented a randomized field experiment that showed that a simple Community Health Worker intervention in Uganda, based on a social entrepreneurship model, reduced child mortality by more than twenty percent. David is a member of several research networks, such as Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), European Development Research Network (EUDN) and Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His work has been highlighted in various international media outlets, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Economist and various national TV news broadcasts in the U.S.

Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University
✝ Prof. Alberto Alesina

Alesina was a leader in the field of Political Economics and has published extensively in all major academic journals in economics. His work has covered a variety of topics: the political economy of fiscal policy and budget deficits, the process of European integration, stabilization policies in high inflation countries, currency unions, the political economic determinants of redistributive policies, and the differences in the welfare state in the US and Europe.

Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Prof. Marianne Bertrand
Professor of Economics, Affiliated Professor at the UBS Center

Nir Jaimovich is a macroeconomist who studies business cycles and the dynamics of the labor market. He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an associate editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Journal of Economic Theory. Before joining the University of Zürich, Professor Jaimovich was on the faculty at the Marshall School of Business at USC, Duke University, Stanford University, and the University of California, San Diego. He was also a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Economic Fluctuations and Growth program.

Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business
Prof. Ulrike M. Malmendier

Ulrike Malmendier is the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Finance at the Haas School of Business and Professor of Economics at the University of California. Her research interests are corporate finance, behavioral economics/behavioral finance, economics of organizations, contract theory, law and economics, law and finance. In 2013, Malmendier was awarded the prestigious Fisher Black Prize from the American Finance Association, given biennially to the top financial scholar under the age of 40. She has been a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since September 2022.

Assistant Professorship for Child Well-Being and Development supported by UNICEF Switzerland
Guilherme Lichand

Guilherme Lichand is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, and Research Director of the Center for Child Wellbeing and Development at the University of Zurich. He uses lab-in-the-field experiments to study the impacts of poverty on decision-making. Guilherme holds a PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University, and has been acknowledged by MIT Technology Review as Brazil's top under-35 social innovator in 2014.

Venue

University of Zurich

Department of Economics, SOF-G-21, Schönberggasse 1, 8001 Zürich
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