National Bureau of Economic Research Creates New Working Group on Gender in the Economy

The National Bureau of Economic Research has launched the new Working Group on Gender in the Economy. The new entity will provide a venue for research on the role of women in the economies of both developed and developing nations. The Working Group will take a broad approach to analyzing gender-related disparities in economic outcomes, and in studying how limited access to education, labor market opportunities, formal financial services, along with disempowering social norms and gender-biased laws and institutions, can create them.

The Working Group will draw together researchers from many subfields of economics who share a common focus on economic issues that are gender-related. It will build on a recent NBER initiative, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, that highlighted new research on topics such as women’s role in caregiving and the economic and other determinants of domestic violence.

The following NBER associates will serve as the inaugural co-directors of the Working Group:

Jessica Goldberg is an associate professor of economics at the University of Maryland. She is a graduate of Stanford University, where she majored in economics and political science. She holds a master of public affairs degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in economics and public policy from the University of Michigan.

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Cornell University. Dr. Goldin earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Claudia Olivetti is the George J. Records 1956 Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is a graduate of the University of Rome, where she majored in statistics and economics. Dr. Olivetti earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jessica Goldberg, Claudia Goldin, and Claudia Olivetti