CSWEP Paper Sessions for ASSA Annual Meeting

Sessions at 2025 AEA/ASSA Annual Meeting: January 3-5, 2025
Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Gender in Developing Countries
Friday, January 3, 2025, 10:15 AM -12:15 PM 

CHAIR: Rema Hanna, Harvard University

“Bringing Work Home: Flexible Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West Bengal”
Lisa Ho, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Anahita Karandikar, Vancouver School of Economics, and Suhani Jalota, Stanford University
Discussant: Carly Trachtman, IFPRI

“Breaking Job Search Barriers for Women: Experimental Evidence from Vocational Training Students in India”
Catalina Herrera-Almanza, University of Illinois, S. Anukriti, The Word Bank, and Sophie Ochmann, The World Bank
Discussant: Aqeel Fatima, Colgate University

“Cash Transfers and Role Models: Impacts on Women’s Empowerment in Rural Kenya”
Emily Riley, University of Michigan, Mahreen Mahmud, University of Exeter, and Kate Orkin, University of Oxford
Discussant: Francesca Truffa, University of Michigan

“Minimum Wage and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Morocco”
Louise Paul-Delvaux, Harvard University 
Discussant: Ellen McCullough, University of Georgia

Lessons on Income Support
Sunday, January 3, 2025, 2:30 PM– 4:30 PM

CHAIR: Stephanie Aaronson, Federal Reserve Board

“Income During Infancy Reduces Criminal Activity of Fathers and Children: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefits”
Sakshi Bhardwaj, University of Illinois
Discussant: Katie Bollman, Oregon State University

“How Does the Child Tax Credit Change the Time Allocation of Parents: Evidence from American Time Use Data”
Yang Jiao, Texas A&M University, Tennecia Dacass, Central Washington University, and Elif B. Dilden, Rockhurst University
Discussant: Tatiana Homonoff, New York University

“Strengthening Work Requirements? Forecasting Impacts of Reforming Cash Assistance Rules”
Gabrielle Pepin, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Josep Nadal-Fernandez, Michigan State University, and Kane Schrader, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Discussant: Krista Ruffini, Georgetown University

“Fifty State Safety Nets: Trends, Patterns, and Policy Lessons”
Tara Watson, Williams College, Lucie Schmidt, Smith College, and Lara Shore-Sheppard, Williams College
Discussant: Marianne Bitler, University of California, Davis

Tax Efficiency and Public Policies
Saturday, January 4, 2025, 10:15 AM -12:15 PM

CHAIR: Stephanie Aaronson, Federal Reserve Board

“Beyond Tax Compliance: Welfare Implications of a Size-dependent Enforcement Policy”
Elisa Yu-Chun Cheng, Cornell University, Tzu-Ting Yang, Institute of Economics, and Hsing-Wen Han, Tamkang University 
Discussant: Tejaswi Velayudhan, University of California-Irvine

“Capital Adjustment Costs and Nationally Determined Contributions - How to Avoid Double Transitions of Energy Capital?”
Anna-Maria Goeth, Humboldt University of Berlin, Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg, Vienna University of Technology, and Carolyn Fischer, World Bank Group
Discussant: Adele Morris, Federal Reserve Board

“Tax-Subsidized Green Bonds and their Real Effects”
Lisa Knauer, Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University
Discussant: Nora Pankratz, University of Toronto

“General Revenue Financing of Social Security: Has the Time Come?”
Louise Sheiner, Brookings Institution and Alexander Gelber, University of California San Diego
Discussant: Xinzhe Cheng, Congressional Budget Office 

Economic Demography
Saturday, January 4, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

CHAIR: Mary Lopez, Occidental College

“The Intergenerational Health Effects of Child Marriage Bans”
Teresa Molina, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Dung Le, Keio University, Yoko Ibuka, Keio University, and Rei Goto, Keio University
Discussant: Ashley Wong, Tilburg University

“Marital Sorting, Social Security Benefits, and Retirement Behaviors of Married Women”
Zhixiu Yu, Louisiana State University, and Siha Lee, McMaster University
Discussant: Kelly Ragan, Stockholm School of Economics

“Immigration Attitudes and Labor Market Conditions in the United States”
Shalise Ayromloo, US Census Bureau, and Oleg Firsin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Discussant: Reem Zaiour, Vanderbilt University

“Birth Order in the Very Long-Run: Estimating First-Born Premiums between 1850 and 1940”
Siobhan O’Keefe, Davidson College, Angela Cools, Davidson College, Anthony Wray, University of Southern Denmark, Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University, and Joseph Price, Brigham Young University
Discussant: Micah Villarreal, University of California-Santa Barbara

Public Policy and Fertility
Sunday, January 5, 2025, 8 AM -10:00 AM

CHAIR: Orgul Ozturk, University of South Carolina

“Air Pollution and Fertility Outcomes in Thailand”
Pallavi Panda, State University of New York at Geneseo, and Pasita Chaijaroen, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Thailand 
Discussant: Jenna Stearns, University of California-Davis

“Forced Migration and Reproductive Health Care Services: Evidence from Turkey”
Aya Aboulhosn, American University
Discussant: Bilge Erten, Northeastern University

“Roe v. Rates: Reproductive Healthcare and Public Financing Costs”
Runjing Lu, University of Alberta and Zihan Ye, University of Tennessee
Discussant: Marianne Bitler, University of California-Davis

“Long-run and Multigenerational Impact of Abortion Legalization in the US”
Shearjum Farin, Georgia State University
Discussant: Sarah Hamersma, Syracuse University

Gender in the Economy
Sunday, January 5, 2025, 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM

CHAIR: Francisca Antman, University of Colorado

“Diversifying Innovation: How Student Debt Affects Diversity in Entrepreneurship”
Francesca Truffa, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Menaka Hampole, Yale University, and Ashley Wong, Tilburg University
Discussant: Donna Ginther, Kansas University

“Can Temporary Affirmative Action Improve Representation?”
Neeraja Gupta, University of Richmond
Discussant: Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Rutgers University

“Filling the Gaps: Childcare Laws for Women’s Economic Empowerment”
Maria Montoya, Paris School of Economics, S Anukriti, The World Bank, Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, The World Bank, Marina Elefante, The World Bank, and Alena Sakhonchik, The World Bank
Discussant: Marianne Bitler, University of California, Davis

“Do Parents Save More for a Daughter or a Son? Investigating Minorities to Understand Norms and Economic Incentives”
Maya Haran Rosen, The Wharton School, Nitsa Kasir, The National Insurance Institute, Moriel Malul, The National Insurance Institute, and Orly Sade, Hebrew School of Jerusalem
Discussant: Xuechao Qian, Stanford University

Bridging the Gap: Increasing Representation of Women in the Economics Profession, from Students to Faculty (Gender in the Economics Profession)
Sunday, January 5, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

CHAIR: Donna Ginther, University of Kansas   

“Increasing Female Undergraduate Majors in Economics Education: A Case Study”
Hellen Seshie-Nasser, Johns Hopkins University and Barbara Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Kristy Buzard, Syracuse University

“My Department Cares: Supporting College Students through Encouragement Emails”
Danila Serra, Texas A&M University and Daniel Gomez-Vasquez, Texas A&M University
Discussant: Sarah Jacobson, Williams College

“Star Secrets? Examining the Gendered Effects of Collaboration on Junior Economists' Success”
Shannon Tran, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Discussant: Maxine Lee, San Francisco State University

“Gender Differences in the Response to Incentives”
Erina Ytsma, Carnegie Melon University
Discussant: Rebecca Thornton, Baylor University