Research by Lin Peng, a Visiting Professor and Director of Research in Faculty of Economics has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.
The traditional site of Jesus College, which was established in 1496, saw a much younger anniversary than many it has seen, with the tenth birthday of the Keynes Fund this autumn.
The Faculty's Prof. Chryssi Giannitsarou has sent out a survey in Qualtrics Cambridge for her ongoing research project on Covid-19 and academic productivity in economics research. Please do respond if you receive an invite.
It shows how Indians View Gender Roles in Families and Society and indicates Indians accept women as political leaders, but many favour traditional gender roles in family life.
Dr. Christopher Rauh and Karin Kimbrough (Chief Economist, LinkedIn) discuss women’s exodus from the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic with Bloomberg’s Lizzy Burden at the Bloomberg Equality Summit.
The Janeway Institute will be primarily funded by Weslie and William Janeway. William Janeway is an alumnus of the PhD programme at Cambridge and has played an active role in the Faculty over the last decade.
Research by Dr Christopher Rauh, a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, has found that those in poorer, less stable occupations have much less access to employer provided sick pay.
In the first weeks of the pandemic, the submission of articles to journals by women, fell dramatically more than their male counterparts.
A new report from the Royal Economics Society (RES) reveals signs of “stagnation and retreat” in the closing of gender gaps across the study of economic, according to Dr Victoria Bateman. Female intake relative to male appears to be falling at both undergraduate and master’s levels over the last two decades.
A world-wide pandemic could have started at any point in the past century since Spanish Flu circled the globe. However, as Dr Toxvaerd explains; “To a certain extent the world ‘got lucky’, and the world was almost lulled into a false sense of security; it was thought we could contain a virus as well as we did SARS. This turned out to be wrong.”
“We have looked at what happened in lockdown, and there is a widening gender gap in mental health which cannot be explained by what we would regard as normal reasons,” says Dr Christopher Rauh, a University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. “The people we studied are working less and hence earning less than usual or even losing their job.”
Times Higher Education has quoted the research by Dr. Amano-Patiño, Dr. Faraglia, Dr.
As part of International Women's Day, Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou will be a guest speaker at the University College Dublin (UCD) webinar, "Bridging the gender gap: Research and responses to COVID-19". The online event will take place on Monday 8th March 2021 at 11.00am.
Dr. Chryssi Giannitsarou and Sarah Smith (University of Bristol) have written an article for the Royal Economic Society, that says the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and intensified inequalities in many areas of our life, including academic life.
The government must assess equality impact of every policy or risk turning the clock back, according to a new report by Women and Equalities Committee.
Dr Noriko Amano Patino was interviewed for the Cambridge Centre for International Research's Ideas & Innovation Talk Series about her joint paper with Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Zeina Hasna titled
Dr Noriko Amano Patino's VOXeu article and paper (joint with Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Zeina Hasna), entitled "Who is doing new research in the time of COVID-19?
Dr Noriko Amano Patino's VOXeu article and paper (joint with Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Zeina Hasna), entitled "Who is doing new research in the time of COVID-19?
Dr Noriko Amano Patino's VOXeu article and paper (joint with Elisa Faraglia, Chryssi Giannitsarou and Zeina Hasna), entitled "Who is doing new research in the time of COVID-19?
The Athena SWAN Charter is an initiative established by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) designed to recognise
Dr Noriko Amano-Patiño, Dr Elisa Faraglia, Dr Chryssi Giannitsarou and PhD candidate Zeina Hasna have published an article for VOXeu titled "
Professor Sanjeev Goyal, Dr. Anja Prummer (former Cambridge-INET Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London) and Dr.
Professor Sanjeev Goyal, Dr. Anja Prummer (former Cambridge-INET Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queen Mary University of London) and Dr.
Dr Victoria Bateman was interviewed by the New York Times about the gender gap in economics and her recent book: The Sex Factor - How Women Made the West Rich.
Professor Sanjeev Goyal's research (co-authored with Anja Prummer) into how risk aversion plays a role in female academic economists having smaller and more clustered networks of co-authors, has been quoted in an article by The Economist.
Dr Victoria Bateman and economics undergraduates Clara Starrsjo (Gonville and Caius College) and Paulin Nusser (Magdalene College) were featured on the BBC World Service programme - Business Daily. The subject of the programme was the lack of women in economics.