News

Media Coverage

• June 2022: Professor Wilson's article on the effects of Interviews on the NRMP Match in the latest issue of AER: Insights

• May 2022 - Professor Vesterlund’s new book The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work is available now.

• January 2022 - Professor Vesterlund participated in the Science and Philanthropy Initiative (SPI) online panel. Watch it here.

• January 2022 - Professor Vesterlund joined the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

• January 2022 - Professor Wang joined the editorial board of Games and Economic Behavior

• January 2022 - Professor Wilson joined the editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

• February 24, 2021 - Professor Vesterlund receives the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award

Past Events

• August 11, Broeg Literaturbar, Copenhagen, Meet the author (Professor Vesterlund)

• August 19, Aarhus University, Department of Economics, Denmark (Professor Vesterlund)

• July 14-15 - Behavioral Game Theory Workshop (Professor Wilson)

• July 13-14 - Russell Sage Behavioral Summer Camp, Boston (Professor Vesterlund)

• July 12 - Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics, Animal Welfare (Professor Wang)

• June 21-23 - FAIR Midway Conference, Norway (Professor Vesterlund)

• June 2, 2022 - Women in Leadership, Keller Williams Worldwide (Professor Vesterlund)

• May 11, 2022 - Cottrell Salon, Stanford University (Professor Vesterlund)

• May 12, 2022 - Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting, Berkeley (Professor Vesterlund)

• May 15, 2022 - LinkedIn Live with Lisa McLeod (Professor Vesterlund)

• May 10, 2022 - Google, Women in Cloud (Professor Vesterlund)

• May 9, 2022 - Penn Club of New York (Professor Vesterlund)

• May 5, 2022 - University of Copenhagen, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) (Professor Huffman)

• May 5, 2022 - Greater Houston Women's Conference for Women (Professor Vesterlund)

• May 3, 2022 - The No Club Book Launch, Pittsburgh Art and Lecture Series at the Carnegie Hall (Professor Vesterlund)

• April 27, 2022 - The Salon (Professor Vesterlund)

• April 26, 2022 - RAND's Distinguished Speaker Series (Professor Vesterlund)

• April 25, 2022 - Yale Behavioral Sciences Workshop (Professor Huffman)

• April 18, 2022 - University of Michigan (Professor Vesterlund)

• March 24, 2022 - Women in Leadership, University of Pittsburgh (Professor Vesterlund)

• March 3, 2022 - Texas A&M, John Van Huyck Memorial Lecture (Professor Vesterlund)

• February 23, 2022 - Harvard Business School (Professor Vesterlund)

• February 16, 2022 - University of Maryland, Department of Economics (Professor Vesterlund)

• February 3, 2022 - JILAEE, Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (Professor Vesterlund)

• July 29, 2021 - "Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality, and Effort Provision", NBER Personnel Economics Workshop (Professor Huffman)

• June 1, 2020 - Bristol Workshop on Economic Policy Interventions and Behaviour (Professor Huffman)

Press

• "The Club That Teaches Women How to Say ‘No’ to Office Housework" article by Emma Jacobs for the Financial Times, April 28, 2022

• "Get Ready for Radical Salary Transparency" article by Brit Morse for Inc., April 27, 2022

• "Why Women do 'Office Housework'" article by Caroline Farchild for LinkedIn News, April 15, 2022

• "Young Women have Flipped the Gender Wage Gap in Some Places, but not Pittsburgh" article by An-Li Herring for WESA - NPR affiliate, April 11, 2022

• "How Women Faculty can Avoid Career-Busting Busy Work" article by Lise Vesterlund for Harvard Business Publishing, April 1, 2022

• "The 22 Cities in America Where Young Women Earn As Much As or More Than Men" article by Monica Torres for Huffpost, March 30, 2022

• "How to Navigate Office Life: A Guide for Young Recruits" article by Kate Bassett for Financial Times, March 27, 2022

• "Goodbye to the 'Office Mom'", New York Times article by Jessica Grose, September 3, 2021

• "Why women get stuck with the busy-work — and what we can do about it", Apolitical article by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart, June 14, 2020

• "The stressful moment when the boss asks for a volunteer. Who answers?", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article by Teresa F. Lindeman, October 1, 2018

• "Why Saying No to 'Thankless Tasks' can Close the Gender Gap", Forbes article by Tanya Tarr, April 18, 2018

• "Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions", Harvard Business Review article by Linda Babcock, Maria Recalde, and Lise Vesterlund, July 2017

• "Women's work? Why female employees take on thankless tasks shunned by men... and how that may hurt women's careers" American Economic Association Research Highlights article by Chris Fleisher, March 2017

• "The 'I Just Can't Say No' Club Women Need To Advance In Their Careers", Forbes article by Rushika Tulshyan, June 2016

Interviews

• "Let's Do Less Dead-End Work" Lise Vesterlund interviewed by Sarah Green Carmicheal, Nicole Torres, and Amy Berstein for the Harvard Business Review Women at Work podcast, September 2018

• "Why Women Struggle to Advance" Lise Vesterlund presentation for the IIES/SNS International Policy Talks, June 2018

• "American Economic Association Research Highlights: "Women's work?" Linda Babcock, Maria Recalde, and Lise Vesterlund interviewed by Chris Fleisher for the American Economic Association Research Highlights, March 2017

• "Fix the Organization, Not the Women" Lise Vesterlund interviewed for the Studieförbundet Näringsliv och Samhälle Centre for Business and Policy Studies, 2017.