VIRTUAL EVENT: School schedule and the gender pay gap
In this webinar, Clémentine Van Effenterre and Emma Duchini will provide causal evidence that children’s school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents.
VIRTUAL EVENT: School schedule and the gender pay gap
28 Jan 2021, 15:00 – 16:00
Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings.
Exploiting variations in the application of this reform over time and across the age of the youngest child, the research shows that mothers are more likely to adopt a regular Monday to Friday full-time working schedule after the reform, while fathers’ labour supply is unchanged.
Consequently, the reform decreased the monthly gender pay gap by six per cent, generating fiscal revenues that substantially outweigh its cost.
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Join policymakers, researchers and practitioners to explore the pressing questions of our time in education policy and equalising opportunities.
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Clémentine Van Effenterre
Assistant Professor of Economics
at the University of Toronto
Clémentine's research interests include labour economics, public economics and political economy. Her work investigates how organizations, institutions and social norms can affect gender differences in human capital investment decisions, labour market performances.
Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Van Effenterre was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She received a PhD in economics from the Paris School of Economics. She is the host of InequaliTalks, an economics podcast about inequality.
Emma Duchini
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick
Emma holds a PhD in Economics from University Pompeu Fabra. Her research interests include the Economics of Education and Gender Economics.
Her research studies the causes of gender inequality in the labor market, changes in returns to skills, and the impact of educational and labor market institutions on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes.
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