Public Lectures

In one of the greatest extensions of economic rights in human history, common law countries gave married women equal property rights starting in the 1850s. What are these rights? What are the reasons for extending equal economic rights for married women? And what are the consequences of equal economic rights? The lecture will shed some light on these topics and also, discuss some economic aspects of women’s suffrage.

December 3, 2019

The 2019 Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group and NES Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality provided a state-of-the-art overview on the study of inequality and human flourishing. Participants learned about the integration between psychological and sociological insights into the foundations of human behavior and conventional economic models. Through rigorous lectures students were trained on various tools needed to study the issue of inequality.

June 19, 2019

There is a popular opinion that women are becoming more and more career-oriented. This comes with the cost of having fewer children or even being childless. However, recent studies show that rich women in the US have increased their fertility significantly. On November 6 Hosny Zoabi will explain which factors helped to increase rich women’s fertility? Are these tendencies connected with the increase in inequality? What are the consequences of this newly emerging pattern? Is the market pronatalist?

November 6, 2018