Friday, 12 October 2018: 11:30 AM-12:45 PM
Speaker:
Raquel Fernandez, New York University—USA
Presentation Title: Cultural Change in the 20th Century
Biography: Raquel Fernandez is a Professor in the Department of Economics at New York University. She is also a member of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance at the University of Oslo, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and Institute for Labor Economics. She has previously been a tenured professor at the London School of Economics and Boston University and held visiting positions at various institutions around the world. She has served as the Director of the Public Policy Program of the CEPR and has been a Panel Member of the National Science Foundation and a Program Committee Member of the Social Science Research Council. She has also served as Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics and as an Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and of Economia. Currently she is on the Executive Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and an advisor to the World Bank's World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development. She is the recipient of several National Science Foundation grants, of a Spencer Fellowship from the National Academy of Education, and was awarded a National Fellow at the Hoover Institute and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her most recent research is primarily in the areas of culture and economics, development and gender issues, inequality, and political economy.
Presentation Title: Cultural Change in the 20th Century
Biography: Raquel Fernandez is a Professor in the Department of Economics at New York University. She is also a member of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance at the University of Oslo, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and Institute for Labor Economics. She has previously been a tenured professor at the London School of Economics and Boston University and held visiting positions at various institutions around the world. She has served as the Director of the Public Policy Program of the CEPR and has been a Panel Member of the National Science Foundation and a Program Committee Member of the Social Science Research Council. She has also served as Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics and as an Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and of Economia. Currently she is on the Executive Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association and an advisor to the World Bank's World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development. She is the recipient of several National Science Foundation grants, of a Spencer Fellowship from the National Academy of Education, and was awarded a National Fellow at the Hoover Institute and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her most recent research is primarily in the areas of culture and economics, development and gender issues, inequality, and political economy.