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In this talk, UC Berkeley professor Abhay Aneja will present how he and co-authors used novel personnel records of the U.S. government to study how exposure to female representation at work can persistently reduce intergenerational gender gaps in labor market outcomes. The authors document substantial city-level variation in the sudden expansion of female employment during World War I, and document that daughters of civil servants exposed to female co-workers are more likely to work later in life.

Professor Aneja is a lawyer and quantitative social scientist who studies how legal institutions affect social inequality and development. His areas of interest include the administrative law, the law of democracy, and empirical legal studies.

This virtual seminar is part of the Women and Public Policy Program's weekly spring seminar series Make Work Fair, which gives participants an opportunity to engage with research related to the topics discussed in the book 'Make Work Fair' by Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi. Attendance is open to all.