I am an associate professor of economics at the University of Geneva and the Aix-Marseille School of Economics (on leave) and an associate researcher at the Economic Growth Centre at Yale University.
📧 gottlieb.charles@gmail.com · charles.gottlieb@unige.ch
News
April 2026: We wrote a short paper on "Who Counts as Employed? The Gendered Consequences of Redefining Employment" to be published at Mondes en Développement.
March 2026: Our project In Search of Lost Time: Time-Use for Macro-Development has been awarded an SNSF grant (2026–2029).
December 2025: New version of our paper Gender Gaps and Economic Growth: Why Haven't Women Won Globally (yet)?
October 2025: Updated version of Skill Supply, Firm Size and Economic Development. A first version of the paper was a Background paper for the World Bank's 2024 World Development Report.
September 2025: We launched the work-in-data website!
September 2025: New version of our paper From Skills to Occupations: Comparative Advantage and Cross-Country Income Differences
August 2025: The first version of Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) paper is now online.
July 2025: We were awarded a Large Research Grant by the STEG-CEPR !
June 2025: "How does human capital shape economic development?" -- see our blogpost for some answers.
February 2025: Our paper Gendered Patterns of Labor in Agriculture is published in Agricultural Economics.
July 2024: An updated version of The Gender Division of Work Across Countries is now online.
