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Reading Group

Gender Discrimination 2019

July 15th, 2019 - September 30th, 2019

Venue

Khatam University
Meeting room, 6th floor, Khatam University (2nd Building) See location on Google map

+982189174612

Organizers

  • Hosein Joshaghani (TeIAS)
  • Shadi Farahzadi (LSE)
  • Yasaman Saeidi (LSE)

Reading Group

Gender Discrimination 2019

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Overview

In the 1950s, few economists thought of phenomena such as racial discrimination as under their purview. That changed in 1957, when Gary S. Becker, Professor of Economics and of Sociology at the University of Chicago and at Chicago Booth before his death in 2014, published The Economics of Discrimination, a book based on his 1955 PhD thesis.

During this 10-week reading group both classical and new evidence on discrimination, mostly gender discrimination in labor markets, will be presented and discussed. We intend to review and explore the role of firms and occupations, norms and stereotypes, family demographics and institutions in driving discrimination, seeking ways which alleviates minorities. Both theories and recent empirical findings on discrimination will be reviewed. We also intend to review empirical works related to gender gap in the labor market of Iran.

10TH SESSION  |  September 30th, 2019

Ehsan Sabouri

 

Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan (2015) QJE, Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households

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Zahra Shamloo

 

Goldin and Katz (2002) JPE, The Power of the Pill
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Alireza Tavakoli

 

Fernandez (2013) AER, Cultural Change as Learning

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Hanieh Mohammadian

 

Doepke, M., & Tertilt, M. (2009) QJE, Wo Liberation: What’s in it for Men?
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9TH SESSION  |  September 23rd, 2019

Alireza Tavakoli

 

Autor et. al. (2019) AEJ, Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
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Alireza Tavakoli

 

Michela Carlana (2019) QJE, Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers’ Gender Bias

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8TH SESSION  |  September 16th, 2019

Ehsan Sabouri

 

Gneezy, Niederle and Rustichini (2003) QJE, Performance in Competitive Envirionments Gender Differences

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Ehsan Sabouri

 

Mobius, Rosenblat and Wang (2016) EER, Ethnic discrimination Evidence from China

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Alireza Tavakoli

 

Reshaping Adolescents’ Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India

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7TH SESSION  |  September 2nd, 2019

Ehsan Sabouri

 

 

Hedegaard and Tyran (2018) AEJ, The Price of Prejudice

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Hanieh Mohammadian

 

Mobius and Rosenbalt (2006) AER, Why Beauty Matters

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Alireza Tavakoli

 

 

Arnold et al (2018) QJE, Racial Bias in Bail Decisions

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Zahra Shamloo

 

 

Fershtman and Gneezy (2001) QJE, Discrimination in a Segmented Society: An Experimental Approach

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6TH SESSION  |  August 26th, 2019

Ehsan Sabouri

 

Petrongolo (2018), Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms

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Yasaman Saeidi

 

Bohren et al (2019) Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination

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Alireza Tavakoli

 

Hengel (2019) Publishing while female: Are women held to higher standards? Evidence from peer review

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Hanieh Mohammadian

 

Sarsons (2019) Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work

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5TH SESSION  |  August 19th, 2019

Ehsan Sabouri

 

Bertrand (2011) HLE, New Perspectives on Gender

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Hosein Joshaghani

 

Sarsons (2017), Interpreting Signals in the Labor Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals

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Zahra Shamloo

 

Valentin Bolotnyy (Harvard University) “Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators”

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Alireza Tavakolli

 

Black and Strahan (2001) AER, Division of Spoils Rent Sharing and Discrmination in a Regulated Industry

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4TH SESSION  |  August 5th, 2019

Yasaman Saeidi

 

Hsieh, Hurst, Jones and Klenow (2019) Ecma, The Allocation of Talent and US Economic Growth

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Zahra Shamloo

 

Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

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Ehsan Sabouri

 

Bohren, Imas and Rosenberg (2019) AER, The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence

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Avenia Ghazarian

 

Lundborg (2017) AER, Can Women Have Children and a Career?

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3RD SESSION  |  July 29th, 2019

Ehsan Sabouri

 

 

List (2004) QJE, The Nature and Extent of Discrimination in the Marketplace: Evidence From the Field

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Hanieh Mohammadian

 

Kofi Charles and Guryan (2008) JPE, Empirical Assessment of Becker The Economics of Discrimination

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Alireza Tavakoli

 

 

Azmat, Petrongolo (2014), Labour Economics, Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?

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Dr. Kaveh Majlesi

 

 

Majlesi (2016) JDE, Labor Market Opportunities and Women’s Decision Making Power Within Households​

2ND SESSION  |  July 22nd, 2019

Mohammad Hosseini

 

Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

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Shadi Farahzadi

 

Bursztyn, Fujiwara and Pallais (2017) AER, Acting Wife: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

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Alireza Tavakoli

 

Folke and Rickne (2019) All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage

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Yasaman Saeidi

 

Akerlof (2000) QJE, Economics and Identity

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1ST SESSION  |  July 15th, 2019

Hosein Joshaghani

 

Introduction to the Reading Group

Shadi Farahzadi

 

Gneezy, Leonard, List (2009) Econometrica, Gender Differences in Competition: Evidence from a Matrilineal and a Patriarchal Society

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Ehsan Sabouri

 

Becker (1957), The economics of discrimination

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Hanieh Mohammadian

 

Kuziemko, Pan, Shen and Washington (2019) The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate Employment Effects in Motherhood?

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