The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market

时间：2025年3月21日（周五）13:30-15:00

地点：北大国发院承泽园131教室

主持人： 雷晓燕、易君健

参与老师：张丹丹、李玲、刘国恩、黄炜

主讲人：Jessica Pan，新加坡国立大学经济系(NUS)

摘要： 

This talk traces the evolution of the study of gender, focusing on how academic thinkingon this topic has evolved, and how past insights inform current perspectives on addressing the remaining gender disparities in the labor market.

Current academic thinking emphasizes two fundamentally different explanations for the existence of gender gaps — essential differences in preferences/skills between men and women vs. gender differences in constraints. I discuss insights from research in both economics and social psychology on the relative importance of these explanations and the implications for economic efficiency. I then provide an in-depth review of recent literature emphasizing the role of children and family responsibilities as a major source of differential barriers to labor market success by gender, and discuss how this interplays with gender norms and discrimination.

主讲人简介：

Jessica Pan is Professor of Economics, Vice Provost (Graduate Education), and Dean of the NUS Graduate School at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She received a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Chicago, followed by an MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

Jessica’s research focuses on applied topics in labor economics and the economics of education. Her recent work focuses on gender differences in labor market and educational outcomes; international migration and the labor market effects on source and host countries; and topics in labor economics such as discrimination, marriage markets, and the returns to education. Her work has been published in several leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. She currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. She is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society and Secretary (President-designate) of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labor Economics (AASLE).