Events

Invited keynote talks and panel chair

1. Distinguished speaker, RC Dutt Lectures in Political Economy, CSSSC, Calcutta, talks on sexual harassment and domestic violence, February 2026
2. Invited speaker, workshop on Gender, Households, and Inequality, WELAC-CAF, Buenos Aires, sexual harassment legislation paper, 16-17 December 2025
3. Keynote on sexual harassment, Workshop on Women and Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, co-organized with the World Bank, October 6–7, 2025 (sexual harassment legislation paper, declined)
4. Invited chair of panel- Developments in Labour- EEA Invited Session with ManudeepBhuller and Alex Willen, Bordeaux, 27 August 2025
5. Keynote on sexual harassment, Sustainable Development Conference, Monash Business School in Prato, 25-27 June 2025
6. Invited panellist on sexual harassment, Gender Equality at Work: Policy Approaches, Equal Nova, Lisbon, 6 June 2025
7. Panel Chair, UK Women in Economics Career Conversations Event- Navigating success in a shifting landscape: inform and empower. Royal Economic Society at the LSE. 21 May 2025
8. Keynote, sexual harassment legislation, Quantitative Political Economy Early Career Workshop, Kings College London, 19 May 2025
9. Keynote, Workshop on domestic violence, Australian National University, November 2022 (declined)
10. Short public lecture on the economics of violence against women invited at a University of Warwick Research Celebration Event, 30 April 2024
11. Keynote, 8th Workshop on Labour and Family Economics, University of York, paper on sexual harassment legislation, 4-5 Sept 2023
12. Invited speaker, New Frontiers Lecture Series, University of Notre Dam. Lectures on violence against women and mental health. 18-21 April 2023
13. Invited public lecture, University of Notre Dam, paper on job loss and domestic violence, 19 Apr 2023
14. Keynote, Workshop on gender, Melbourne University, paper on job loss and domestic violence, 8-9 December 2022
15. Keynote, Workshop on gender discrimination: cultural origins and lab evidence, University of Bergamo, paper on job loss and domestic violence, 23-24 September 2022
16. Dr. P.K. Gopalakrishnan Memorial Lecture, CDSLink opens in a new window, Kerala, paper on job loss and domestic violence, 16 Sept 2022
17. Keynote, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Catalonia- 3rd ECO-SOSLink opens in a new window workshop. Invited keynote on gender and sustainable growth. Reus, 30 September 2022 (declined)
18. Organizer and panellist for session on violence against women- evidence from administrative data organized by the Human Rights Big Data and Technology project, Essex, 23 Feb 2022
19. Invited Guest Speaker, China Summit, University of Warwick, paper on sex-selective abortion of girls, 6 Feb 2022
20. Keynote, Millennium Nucleus for Study of the Life Course and Vulnerability, Santiago, paper on lockdowns and domestic violence, Aug 2021
21. Invited talk, CEPR- ENS de Lyon workshop on Political Economy, Cultural Economics and Gender, paper on job loss and domestic violence, 7 June 2021
22. Invited speaker at a World Bank event on gender inequality- Son Preference, 1 September 2021
23. Plenary for Royal Economic Society Mentoring session for young women. 22 March 2021.
24. Invited talk, Discrimination and Diversity Workshop, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science, UEA, paper on job loss and domestic violence, 27-28 May 2021
25. Keynote, ICDAH 2021 Conference in Turkey, Economic approaches to domestic violence during the pandemic, paper on job loss and domestic violence, 26 May 2021
26. Panel Keynote Conference at the University of Ahmedabad, India, Health Economics, 5 March 2021
27. Invited keynote, Conference organized by the Tavistock Centre London, Unmasking COVID: Impact, Inequalities and Innovation. 2 December 2020.
28. Invited keynote at panel on Domestic Violence, Gender Secretariat, Brookings India, 19 Feb 2020.
29. Invited panellist, Gender Pay Gaps and Digitalization, OECD Paris, 28 March 2019.
30. Invited talk, Academy of Social Sciences event: “Women in the Social Sciences 1970s-2020s- a contribution to the ‘Year of Women’s ‘Partial' Suffrage in the UK”, 3 April 2019.
31. Invited Chair of Panel, “Gender bias and assessment”, Lancet event: Advancing Women in Science, Medicine, and Global Health, 8 February 2019.
32. Financing the SDGs: Gender Equality. Invited panelist. October Days for Sustainable Development, EIB Luxembourg, October 11-12, 2018.
33. Panel Moderator- Advancing Human Rights in the Digital Age, Geneva, 23 May 2018.
34. Invited panellist, British Academy Debate. Reducing global inequality: how do we achieve a fairer world? 29 November 2016 at the Royal Society, London.
35. Female Foeticide, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, WHO Geneva, July 2009.
36. Recessions and Women’s Labour Supply, World Bank, 2009.

Invited seminars and lectures

1. Lecture tour in Australia with the sexual harassment legislation paper presented at five universities: UTS, UNSW, Monash, Melbourne, ANU, April 2025
2. 8th Workshop on Subjective Expectations, 9-10 June 2025, Lisbon. Papers on domestic violence, and on mental health
3. IFSLink opens in a new window research breakfast series. 4 June 2025. With Yang Xun and Damian Clarke. Paper on the global gag rule, maternal mortality and domestic violence
4. American European Health Economics conference, Oxford, 28-29 May 2025 (coauthor presents). Paper on hospital consolidation and nurse outcomes in Denmark; paper on the global gag rule and maternal mortality
5. Seminar on workplace sexual harassment, Bath Economics department, 12 March 2025
6. AEA Link opens in a new window– ASSA meetings, Special session on sexual harassment, 3-5 January 2025 (coauthor presents). Paper on sexual harassment legislation
7. Invited speaker, IFS-Norway workshop, 7-8 November 2024. Paper on sexual harassment legislation
8. University of Cambridge seminar, sexual harassment legislation paper, October 2024
9. Invited senior discussant, 2024 Women in Empirical Microeconomics ConferenceLink opens in a new window, 26-27 September 2024
10. Invited speaker, Gender Norms, Sexual Harassment & the Labour Market, EUI, 17-18 May 2024. Paper on sexual harassment legislation
11. Centre for Economic Studies, Munich, Guest lectures series on violence against women, May 2024
12. Invited seminar, University of Bologna, 23 May 2024. Paper on sexual harassment legislation
13. Invited speaker, Women in the Workplace. LSE. 13 March 2024. Paper on sexual harassment legislation
14. Visiting Professor, Social Inclusion Initiative, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 2024--2027
15. Invited to speak at Ashoka University conference New Delhi 16-17 December 2023. Paper on sexual harassment legislation
16. Invited to speak at workshop on violence against women, Stanford 30 Nov-1 Dec 2023. Paper on job loss and domestic violence
17. Invited talk at workshop on sexual harassment, Stockholm, 28-29 June 2023
18. Gender conference at the Bank of Italy, paper on gender wage gaps, 23 June 2023
19. UNU-WIDER seminar, Helsinki, paper on job loss and domestic violence,10 May 2023
20. Health, Labour seminar (HELP series) Northwestern University Chicago, paper on job loss and domestic violence, 18 April 2023
21. Seminar at the Chicago Fed Research Department, paper on job loss and domestic violence, 12 April 2023
22. Invited speaker and visitor, University Notre Dam for New Frontiers Lecture Series, distinguished speaker lecture on job loss and domestic violence and graduate student lectures on violence against women more broadly. April 2023 
23. Visitor, Economics Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, seminar on job loss and domestic violence. April 2023
24. Jacobs Centre, University of Zurich 24 March 2023
25. University of St Andrews 7 March 2023
26. University of Canberra Applied Economics seminar 19 December 2022
27. Experimental group seminar, Monash University, paper on perceptions of sexual harassment and policy support 6 Dec 22
28. University of Sydney Economics seminar 1 Dec 2022
29. Bergen workshop on human capital, social institutions and the labour market May 2022
30. Seminar May 2022, AEA Meetings Special session on domestic violence, January 2022
31. Gender workshop, UPF, Barcelona September 2021
32. CEPRLink opens in a new window/LEAP Workshop in Development Economics, May 2021
33. ZEW workshop Mannheim June 2021, NEUDC 2020.
34. CEPRLink opens in a new window Gender Economics Seminars. 5 October 2020
35. Political Economy workshop Galatina 27 August 2019
36. Political Economy workshop, Kent, 24-25 June 2019

Conference organization

1. Policy workshop – violence against women, London, forthcoming Spring 2026
2. Violence against women workshop. CAGELink opens in a new window, Warwick, 18-19 October 2024
3. Gender. With Natalia Zinoyeva and Jiaqi Li. Warwick and CAGE. 7-8 June 2024
4. Gender Discrimination: Cultural Origins and Lab Evidence, University of Bergamo, 23-24 September 2022. Scientific organizer
5. Violence against women: Evidence from administrative data from the UK, France, the Netherlands and Brazil. Session for the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology project conferenceLink opens in a new window, Essex, February 2022
6. Invited organizer and lead speaker, session on violence against women, Discrimination and Diversity Workshop, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social ScienceLink opens in a new window, UEA, 27-28 May 2021
7. The gender pay gap. MISOCLink opens in a new window workshop, 15-16 April 2021.
8. Advances in Gender Equality. Funded by the Swedish Research Council. With A Lindskog, J Vecci, Gothenburg 28-29 November 2019.
9. Family and labour economics. Co-organized with M Francesconi. 17 June 2019.
10. Advances in applied microeconomics. Funded by the ESRC- MiSoC. With A Delavande. 12-13 June 2019.