FAMILY POLICIES & FEMALE EMPLOYMENT

1. FAMILY POLICIES & FEMALE EMPLOYMENT 11:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. June 14, 2010 MC3-850 Janet C. Gornick, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, City University of New York Janet’s research focuses on social welfare policy. Most of her work is comparative, with a focus on Europe, and concerns the effects of family policies on child and family outcomes. Her core interest is in public programs that affect families' capacities to combine employment with care giving, such as child care, maternity and parental leave, the regulation of working time, and income transfers targeted on families with children.  She holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and Social Relations (Harvard 1980), a Masters Degree in Public Administration (Harvard 1987), and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government (Harvard 1994). ArianeHegewisch, Study Director, Institute for Women’s Policy Research Ariane has been a Study Director at IWPR since the summer of 2008; prior to that she spent two years at IWPR as a scholar-in-residence. She is responsible for IWPR’s research on workplace discrimination and is a specialist in comparative human resource management, with a focus on policies and legislative approaches to facilitate greater work family reconciliation and gender equality, in the US and internationally. She has a particular interest in public sector developments. She is German and has a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MPhil in Development Studies from the IDS, Sussex.  ZafirisTzannatos, Consultant, MNA Human Development Group, World Bank Zafiris is an economist living in Beirut, Lebanon. Before he retired from the World Bank, he was Advisor to the World Bank’s Managing Director, Manager for Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa Region, and Leader of the Global Child Labor Program that he initiated. He has advised governments of industrialized and developing countries as well as international organizations on issues relating to economic and human development, and has published 14 books and monographs, and more than 150 reports and papers in the areas of development strategy, social policy, gender equality, child labor, trade unions, education, training, pensions and, more broadly, labor markets and social protection. SaroshSattar, Senior Economist, ECA Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank Sarosh is the Gender Coordinator for the Europe and Central Asia Region and the Lead Poverty Reduction Strategy Advisor for Central Asia and the Caucuses. She has worked at the World Bank, an international development organization, since 1991. She has a diverse background and her work encompasses macroeconomic analysis, social expenditure analysis, labor markets, and poverty issues. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Cornell University (1990). Pedro Olinto, Senior Economist, LCR Poverty Sector, World Bank Pedro works on Monitoring and Evaluation of government programs and poverty analysis. Before joining the Bank, he worked for the Brazilian Government, coordinating Monitoring and Evaluation at the Ministry of Social Development. He has also taught “Social Policy Evaluation Methods” at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Pedro holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a MSc in Agriculatural Economics from Purdue University. Alessandra Fogli, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota Alessandra is a Assistant Professor at the Economics Department at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of research include Macroeconomics, Family Economics, Preference Formation and Transmission. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000.