As of the start of the academic year 2021-2022, Assistant Professor Anne Boring of Erasmus School of Economics has been appointed as Research Fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program of Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Anne Boring will be participating actively in WAPPP seminars and attending and presenting papers at other seminars relevant to her interest. She will be working on two research projects related to firm culture during her period of residence. Prof. Iris Bohnet, a behavioural economist whose work focuses on issues of gender, trust, and social preferences, serves as her faculty sponsor.
Conducting gender-related research built on behavioural insights
The Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) advances women and gender equity in economic opportunity, political participation, and education by creating knowledge, training leaders, and informing public policy and organisational practices. It offers non-stipendiary fellowships to exceptional scholars who are conducting gender-related research in one of WAPPP’s four focal areas (economic opportunity, political participation, health, and education). Fellows include doctoral, post-doctoral, and faculty.
Research at the WAPPP is built on behavioural insights to create evidence-based organisational designs that can promote women's empowerment, overcome gender bias, and provide equal opportunities for women and men. The research provides evidence-based insights on the role of gender in shaping economic, political, and social opportunities available to individuals. It identifies successful interventions and measures their impact on women, men, and society, then shares recommendations on what policies, organisational practices, and leadership techniques help close involuntary gaps.
About Anne Boring
Assistant Professor Anne Boring joined the Economics department at Erasmus School of Economics in 2017. She is also Head of the Women in Business Chair, Sciences Po, Paris (LIEPP & PRESAGE) and Research Fellow at Tinbergen Institute. Her main research topics are students' higher educational choices, their labour market consequences, the influence of stereotypes on performance assessments, the efficiency of policies designed to reduce discrimination and student evaluations of teaching.
About the Harvard Kennedy School
The Harvard Kennedy School (officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, or HKS) is the public policy school of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Kennedy School has produced 17 heads of state or government, the most of any graduate institution in the world. Alumni also include cabinet officials, military leaders, heads of central banks, and legislators.
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If you want to learn more about Dr Anne Boring, you can watch her video in the 'Meet your Professor' series.