Call for Papers: Enabling Gender-Sensitive Covid Recovery in Asia Conference

Inclusion Economics at Yale University invites submissions from academic researchers of rigorous empirical and/or theoretical papers in economics or related fields (e.g., political science) that can improve the understanding of gender-sensitive Covid-19 recovery in Asia.

Topics relevant to the theme include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Labor market dropout and re-entry through the pandemic 

• Changes in job quality/dimensions, including transitions across informal and formal employment, etc.

• Norms around women and work, and discrimination

• Labor market linkages – access to information, markets, etc., and gender gaps in economic outcomes

• Remote data collection through the pandemic and consequences for what we understand from the data

• Policy responses and relevance to women's economic opportunities and welfare through the pandemic 
  

Interested authors must register and submit a paper by 31 January 2022 here.  The paper should include authors’ affiliations and contact information.

Submissions will be evaluated in terms of originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance to the Asian context.  Authors of accepted papers will be contacted by 15 March 2022.

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