2022 Workshop

The 2nd Discrimination and Diversity workshop took place on Monday, 20 June 2022 and Tuesday, 21 June 2022.

The workshop program is available here.

To promote and encourage the excellent research by junior researchers, the School of Economics and the Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science at the University of East Anglia will be sponsoring two Outstanding Paper Awards worth £500 each.

The awards were given to the two most outstanding papers presented by early-career researchers, and the recipients were announced at the workshop.

The recipients of the Outstanding Paper Awards are:

Menaka Hampole, Northwestern University
Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Students
(with Francesca Truffa and Ashley Wong)

Ozge Demirci, University of Warwick
Can Gender-Blind Algorithmic Pricing Eliminate Gender Gap?

Honourable Mention: Travis Campbell, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Gender Affirming Care and Transgender Health: Evidence from Medicaid Coverage
(with Samuel Mann and Duc Hien Nguyen)

The workshop featured 4 paper sessions each consisting of 4 presentations. Each session had a dedicated theme and was chaired by an expert researcher:

Organizers:
Laura Harvey and Boon Han Koh

Committee for Paper Selections:

UEA Faculty: Sheheryar Banuri, Christa Brunnschweiler, Ben D'Exelle, Amrish Patel, Stefania Sitzia, Robert Sugden

UEA PhD Students: John Billings, William Brown, Nikita Grabher-Meyer, Amir Jafarzadeh, Philip Melnikov, James Merewood

+ inputs from our session chairs.

Please contact us at eco.dnd@uea.ac.uk if you have any questions.