Latest news and updates

March 2024

This month the Hub held the Career Structures in Economics event! It featured a workshop and a policy session in which several scholars took part. See more about the event also on our Twitter page.

Check the latest episode of VoxTalks Economics where our co-director Oriana Bandiera and her co-author Michelle Rao discuss their paper ‘Men are From Mars, and Women Too’.

September 2023

This month the Hub held the Child Penalty Conference. Besides various papers on gender inequality and the participation of several great scholars, the event also featured the launch of the Child Penalty Atlas. See more about the event also on our Twitter page.

That said, our Child Penalty Atlas is now live! See also the working paper at NBER.

August 2023

This month we welcome Mario Remigio and Sveva Manfredi, who joined our team as new pre-doctoral Research Assistants. Check out our team composition.

July 2023

This month we welcome Viktor Veterinarov, who joined our team as a new pre-doctoral Research Assistant. Check out our team composition.

April 2023

During this term, the Hub is hosting Federica Meluzzi, a PhD Student at CREST.

We have just launched an inaugural grant programme to support research proposals from LSE faculty and LSE students with a particular focus on the issues facing women and other underrepresented groups. The deadline to apply is on the 19th May 2023. Read more about it here.

March 2023

We are currently looking for highly skilled and motivated individuals to join the Hub as Research Assistants in Summer / Autumn 2023. The deadline to apply is on the 23rd March 2023!

January 2023

During this term, the Hub is hosting Alice Lapeyre, a PhD Student at CREST.

December 2022

Our executive director Nina Roussille discussed the role of the Ask Gap during the latest episode of Chats with STEMinists.

October 2022

Check out the latest episode of InequaliTalks, where our executive director Nina Roussille discusses the role of the Ask Gap in gender pay inequality.

Our co-director Oriana Bandiera delivered an academic talk on The Jobs of the Poor at the Misum Forum at Stockholm School of Economics.

September 2022

During this term, the Hub is hosting Silvia Griselda, a Post-Doc Researcher at Bocconi University.

This month we welcome Emiliano Sandri, who joined our team as a new pre-doctoral Research Assistant. Check out our team composition.

August 2022

Check out Oriana Bandiera’s EEA Presidential Address on Women at Work.

This month we welcome Mary Reader, who joined our team as a new pre-doctoral Research Assistant. Check out our team composition.

July 2022

Give a read to the recently updated paper on the Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality by our executive director Nina Roussille.

June 2022

This month the directors of the Hub participated to the Festival Internazionale dell’Economia. You can check out Oriana Bandiera’s discussion about the history of the idea of poverty (only in Italian), Camille Landais’ presentation about child penalties, and Nina Roussille’s talk about gender wage gaps.

May 2022

Our co-director Camille Landais recently participated to the COSME Gender Economics Workshop during which he presented the latest findings from the Child Penalty Atlas research. Check out the presentation.

April 2022

Give a read to the recently updated paper on Gender Roles and the Misallocation of Labour Across Countries by our co-director Oriana Bandiera and coauthors.

January 2022

Check out the launch event of the Hub for Equal Representation.

December 2021

Our co-directors Oriana Bandiera and Camille Landais contributed to the recently published Women and Men at Work chapter of the IFS Deaton Review.

November 2021

The Hub for Equal Representation is extremely proud to support the Career Structures in Economics (EEA) initiative.

Save the date! The Hub for Equal Representation will be officially launched on 14 January 2022. #makingequalitywork