Leila Gautham

About

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Economics Department at the University of Leeds.

My applied work focuses on inequality, gender, and childcare. 

I'm interested in time use data and unpaid care provision (see here and here), paid care employment in the U.S. (in sectors such as health and education: e.g., here, here, and here), and the role of selection, urbanization, and firms in shaping gender inequality in developing-country labour markets.

I received my PhD in Economics in 2022 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

Contact

Email: l[dot]gautham[at]leeds.ac.uk

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