学术活动

家庭生产与结构性变革中的性别差异

发布时间:2024-10-25
11月
01
时间和日期
2024-11-01 (星期五) 10:30 上午 - 12:00 下午

Topic:

Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change

Time&Date: 

10:30 am-12:00 pm, November 1, 2024 (Friday)

Venue

Room 207, Zhiren Building

Speaker:

Prof. Chaoran Chen (York University)

Abstract:

This paper establishes an empirical link between home production by married females and gender disparities in non-agricultural employment in developing countries. Building on these findings, we extend the general equilibrium Roy model to incorporate the joint labor supply decisions of rural married couples, accounting for gender wage discrimination and fixed entry costs to non-agricultural employment. Our model fully explains the observed gender gap in non-agricultural employment with relatively small size of gender wage discrimination. Both within-household specialization and fixed entry costs are essential in driving this result. In addition, enhancing public services that act as substitutes for home production can effectively reduce this gap.

Biography:

Chaoran Chen is currently an associate professor at York University. Before joining York, he received his Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Toronto in 2017 and then taught for two years at the National University of Singapore.
His research interests are in macroeconomics and economic development. His work focuses on understanding the observed cross-country productivity differences through the lens of resource misallocation and structural transformation, using both general equilibrium models and micro data. He is also interested in incomplete market models and inequality.