Gendered Change: 150 Years of Transformation in US Hours

In this session of the International Macro History Online Seminar, join us for a presentation on "Gendered Change: 150 Years of Transformation in US Hours" by L. Rachel Ngai (Imperial College and CEPR) with Claudia Olivetti (Dartmouth College), Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford) 

Rachel Ngai is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and a member of Centre for Macroeconomics (CfM). She is also a Theme Leader for Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG). She holds a B.Sc. in Economics from HKUST and a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests span the theory of economic growth, labour markets and housing markets, with focus on the structural transformation, time allocation across skills, gender and across countries, fluctuations in the housing market in the presence of search frictions and more recently on Hukou system and labour misallocation in China. 

Claudia Olivetti is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on women in the labor market including wages, hours, and careers and on intergenerational mobility and marriage institutions in historical perspective. She has worked on the baby boom and maternal health and on historical and comparative perspectives on the gender gap. 

Barbara Petrongolo is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. She is Director of the CEPR Labour Economics Programme and Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. She previously held positions at Queen Mary University of London, the London School of Economics, the Paris School of Economics and the University of Carlos III (Madrid). She is currently managing co-editor of the Economic Journal. Her primary research interests are in labour economics. She has worked extensively on the performance of labour markets with job search frictions, with applications to unemployment dynamics, welfare policy and interdependencies across local labour markets. Her work also researches the causes of gender inequalities in labour market outcomes, in a historical perspective and across countries, with emphasis on the role of employment selection mechanisms, structural transformation, and interactions within the household.In August 2024, Barbara was appointed Chair of the Joint Appointment Committee.

IMHOS seminars

The spring 2025 sessions of the International Macro History Online Seminar will run from February, 12th to May, 28th 2025 and will take place virtually bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 5:00pm (Geneva time). The seminars will run for 60 minutes with an extra optional 15 minutes for further discussion.

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The International Macro History Online Seminar (IMHOS) is a joint initiative of the Graduate Institute's Centre for Finance and Development, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a consortium of universities and institutions: Banque de France, Centre for Economic Policy Research, European Association of Banking History, European Historical Economics Society, The Graduate Institute Geneva, Joint Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Judge Business School Cambridge, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, King’s College London, London School of Economics, NYU-Abu Dhabi, Paris School of Economics, Princeton University, Queen’s University Belfast, Rutgers University, Sciences Po, Santa Clara University, Solvay Business School, Universitat de Barcelona, University Carlos III Madrid, University College London, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, University of Geneva, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business and Yale University.