Ann Boring will give a lecture (in English) on Thursday 17 November. She will explain how experimental methods are able to detect and test policies to reduce discrimination in labour markets.
Since the early 2000s, economists have developed precise experimental methods to detect discrimination in decisions that impact workers’ careers (such as in hiring, evaluation, and promotion decisions). In more recent years, economists have been designing and testing new empirical strategies to test the efficacy of policies designed to reduce discrimination in labour markets.
In this lecture, Anne Boring will give an overview of the most recent methods that economists have developed. She will also give an overview of the state of our knowledge in terms of which policies work and which policies don’t work.
About Anne Boring
Anne Boring joined the Economics Department at Erasmus University Rotterdam in September 2017 as Assistant Professor of Economics. She also heads the Women in Business Chair at Sciences Po Paris.
Her research focuses on issues related to gender equality in higher education and the labor market. She studies more specifically gender biases in performance evaluations, gender differences in students’ higher educational choices, and gender differences in students' access to the labor market following graduation.
In her current work, she is interested in testing and measuring the impact of interventions designed to reduce biases and discrimination in labor markets. In 2021-22, she was a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, at the Women and Public Policy Program.
More information
- About Anne Boring's research: www.anneboring.com
- Meet the professor video
- Article on Economist
- Article in LeMonde
- Article on NPR