2025

02/28  –  NYU and UCLA hosted an all-day symposium titled “The Earned Income Tax Credit at Fifty” at NYU School of Law. Jennifer Roff was a member of the Panel on the "Short- and Long-Term Effects of the EITC" with Hilary Hoynes (Berkeley), Henrik Kleven (Princeton), Anne Alstott (Yale Law School), and Dylan Matthews (Vox), and Jennifer Roff (CUNY, Queens College and The Graduate Center). The symposium included a keynote speech by Bob Greenstein, the founder and President Emeritus of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

03/17  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) presented at the Department of Economics at Cornell University (host Professor Eleonora Patacchini).

05/16  –  WomEmpower co-organizes with OECD the First Policy Workshop on What Works to Stop Violence Against Women? Causal Evidence, Real World Impact at OECD Headquarters in Paris. See links here and here

05/29-05/30  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will attend the Workshop on the Economics of Crime for Junior Scholars (WEC Junior), funded by Arnold Ventures. The seminar will take place at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Núria will discuss the paper “As time goes by’ The effectiveness of protection orders in reducing intimate partner violence recidivism” by Marti Rovira (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 

06/9-06/10  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will participate in the Workshop on policy options for reducing IPV and sexual assault, co-sponsored by UN Women, the World Bank, and the Prevention Collaborative. The event will take place in Washington DC. Organizers include Rachael Pierotti from World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab, and  Lori Heise and Ruti Levtov from the Prevention Collaborative.

09/23  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will present at the Department of Economics at Tilburg University (host Assistant Professor Ashley Wong).

10/1 - 10/2  –  2st  workshop on understanding factors driving violence against women and the impact of policies aimed at reducing such violence in Barcelona, Spain.  

10/27  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will present at the Rockwool Foundation in Copenhagen (host Miriam Gensowski  and Mikkel Mertz).

10/30  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will present at the CEBI  at the University of Copenhagen (host Associate Professor Meltem Daysal).

11/03  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will present at the Economics Department at Lund University (host Postdoctoral Fellow Sarah Rosenberg).

11/21  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) will present at Cornella Creacio.


2024

11/18/2024  –  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) attended the Consejo Asesor de Brecha de Género at the Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones  as a member of the committee.

11/13  -  11/15 -  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI)  visited the International Labor Organization as a member of the Research Review Group. She provided feedback on World Employment and Social Outlook report, Lifelong Learning Skills Flagship Report, and State of Social Justice Report.

11/04  -  11/10 -  Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI)  visited Professor Helmut Rainer at CESifo in Munich and presented her work on "Motherhood and Domestic Violence" on 11/06.

10/23 - 10/24: 1st  workshop on understanding factors driving violence against women and the impact of policies aimed at reducing such violence in Barcelona, Spain.  

10/08/2024: Paper accepted: “Domestic Violence and Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit" with Resul Cesur, Jennifer Roff, and David SimonJournal of Law & Economics (Forthcoming. Accepted on 10/08/2024). Also available at NBER Working Paper #29230. IZA Discussion Paper #15208.  

10/03 - 10/05: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) is invited to give talk at plenary session on "Gender Violence and Labour Market" at 39th Conference of the Italian Association of Labour Economics  in Naples, Italy.

07/01/2024: The Consejo Asesor de Brecha de Género at the Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones  was created today and had its first meeting. Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) was nominated as one of its members.  She will assist the Spanish Government in building policies that reduce gender gaps in Spain.  You can read about the other members of the committee in Spanish here. 

06/07: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) was keynote speaker at 2024 Conference on Women's Health and Labor Outcome at Pace University in New York City.

06/03- 06/07: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) was Invited Speaker at Stone Center summer workshop on Inequality by the Numbers 2024 at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in New York City.

05/27 - 05/28: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) was keynote speaker at COSME Gender Economics Workshops held by Fundación Ramón Areces in Madrid, Spain. Watch a video explaining the research I presented: Here (video).


2023

03/30: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study the causes of intimate partner violence in the EU.

03/30: La investigadora Núria Rodríguez Planas obté un ajut ERC Advanced Grant - Actualitat - Universitat de Barcelona (ub.edu). 

02/07: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI)’s Study is cited in Federal Student Debt Relief Case | CUNY Graduate Center.

02/02: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) is  Named Russell Sage Foundation Scholars | CUNY Graduate Center .

01/11: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI)'s work on Queens College students' experiences during the first months of the pandemic (Economics of Education Review 2022)  is cited as Authorities in a Petition by the President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden Jr., in a Supreme Court Petition (see p. iv and 3). 

12/06: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI) is voted member of the Executive Board Committee of the Society of Economics of the  Household (2022-2026).


2022

10/04: Núria Rodríguez-Planas (PI)'s work was cited in Exhibit A of the Myra Brown & Alexander Taylor, Plaintiffs v. US Department of Education (in page 253).