Anne Sophie Lassen

The gender wage gap and what firms have to do with it 👀 Read the column, covering our paper “Firms and the Gender Wage Gap” We use harmonized data across 11 countries, producing truly comparable results

Read the full paper here: opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/fro… Comments most welcome!!

In sum: parenthood leads to highly educated, ambitious women to leave their preferred occupation. The magnitude is large In research, this affects both the quality and direction of science And the mechanism might be present in other demanding jobs: law, consultancy, finance

Yesterday, it was Women’s Day Today, you can read our paper on parenthood and women’s under-representation in academia Parenthood leads to women leaving academia - not just a career slowdown 👇👇👇 Joint work with Sofie Cairo, @RiaIvandic & @vale_tartari

At the same time, leave satisfaction declines sharply, highlighting a welfare trade-off Paternity leave can shift norms and reduce gender inequality, but such policies comes at a cost The broader question - beyond the scope of our paper - is how to weigh these objectives

We also find labor market effects beyond the leave period In the second year after the child is born (i.e. after leave has been exhaused), we find - Gender earnings gap declines by 2.8pp - Gender hours gap declines by 1.4pp This corresponds to ~14% of Denmark’s child penalty.

Can family policies shift gendered beliefs, social norms, and ultimately gender gaps in the labor market? Yes! Read our new WP for all the details

@AllanSchmidt Sure, we don’t claim causality (which is a high bar and not the point of this study)

@AnSoLassen Would it be fair to say that your findings document gender-based differences in firm sorting and rent-sharing, but do not establish gender itself as the causal driver of those differences?

The gender wage gap and what firms have to do with it 👀 Read the column, covering our paper “Firms and the Gender Wage Gap” We use harmonized data across 11 countries, producing truly comparable results

Paper here: chicagofed.org/publications/w…

Boys aren’t necessarily falling behind in school because they lack motivation—they face a “psychological tax” on academic effort. @UChicago’s Marianne Bertrand, @Ariel_Kalil, and Noah Liu explain that when peers can observe their choices, boys are far more sensitive to social pressure than girls. aibm.org/research/schoo…

Somehow we managed to get all these cool economists to Barcelona 🥰 @FontenaySbasti1 @lm_guirola @Zoabi_Hosny @AnSoLassen