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Lisa Abraham Harvard University -1- LISA ABRAHAM https://scholar.harvard.edu/abraham [email protected] HARVARD UNIVERSITY Placement Director: Amanda Pallais [email protected] 617-495-2151 Placement Director: Nathaniel Hendren [email protected] 617-496-3588 Assistant Director: Brenda Piquet [email protected] 617-495-8927 Office Contact Information: Littauer Center 1805 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Undergraduate Studies: B.A., Economics & Mathematics, Wellesley College, Magna Cum Laude, with Honors, 2010 Graduate Studies: MSc, Economics & Management, The London School of Economics, with Distinction, 2014 Harvard University, 2014 to present Ph.D. Candidate in Economics Thesis Title: “Essays in Labor Economics” Expected Completion Date: June 2020 References: Professor Claudia Goldin Professor Nathaniel Hendren Littauer Center 229, Harvard University Littauer Center 230, Harvard University 617-495-3934, [email protected] 617-496-3588, [email protected] Professor Lawrence Katz Professor Amanda Pallais Littauer Center 224, Harvard University Littauer Center 234, Harvard University 617-495-5148, [email protected] 617-495-2151, [email protected] Teaching and Research Fields: Primary fields: Labor Economics, Public Finance Teaching Experience: Fall, 2018 Market Imperfections & Rationales for Government Interventions (undergraduate), Spring, 2017 Harvard University, teaching fellow for Professor Nathaniel Hendren Spring, 2018 Intermediate Macroeconomics (undergraduate & Extension School), Harvard Spring, 2017 University, teaching fellow for Professor Christopher Foote Fall, 2017 American Economic Policy (undergraduate & Harvard Kennedy School), Harvard Fall, 2016 University, head teaching fellow (2017) and teaching fellow (2016) for Professors Martin Feldstein, Jeffrey Liebman, Lawrence Summers, Amitabh Chandra, and Katherine Baicker -2- Fall, 2016 Economics of Work & Family (undergraduate), Harvard University, teaching fellow for Professor Claudia Goldin Research Experience and Other Employment: Summer 2015 Harvard University, Research Assistant to Professor Amanda Pallais 2011 – 2013 U.S. Department of the Treasury, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Economic Policy, Washington D.C. 2007 – 2011 J.P. Morgan, Investment Banking Analyst & Summer Analyst, New York, NY Professional Activities: Referee Service: Quarterly Journal of Economics Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships: 2018 – 2019 Harvard University Department of Economics Travel and Research Grant (twice) 2019 Harvard Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2019 Weatherhead Initiative on Gender Inequality Fellowship 2018 Harvard Lab for Economic Applications and Policy Grant 2016 – 2018 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (for each of the following courses): Economics of Work & Family (2016); Market Imperfections & Rationales for Government Intervention (2017, 2018); American Economic Policy (2017) 2015 – 2016 Donald B. Marron Graduate Fellowship Research Papers: “Words Matter: Experimental Evidence from Job Applications” (Job Market Paper, with Alison Stein, Uber) Women are underrepresented in certain jobs, particularly in STEM fields and the tech sector. Many women in tech argue that they hold themselves to higher standards than their male counterparts when deciding whether to apply for a job. Thus, job postings that ask for “exceptional” expertise and a slew of “bonus” qualifications may disproportionately discourage women from applying if they believe they must meet or exceed all the listed qualifications. To investigate this hypothesis, we ran a randomized controlled trial on a sample of 60,000 potential applicants to over 600 of Uber’s corporate U.S. job postings. Our treatment removed optional qualifications and softened language about the intensity of the required qualifications. We find that job seekers of both genders meaningfully respond to language: our treatment significantly increased the total number of applications by 7 percent. Altering the language did not change the fraction of women who applied, but did close the gender skills gap. While women applying in the control group are 6 percentage points significantly more likely to have advanced degrees (i.e., higher than a bachelor’s degree) relative to men applying for the same job, women in the treatment group are equally likely as men to have advanced degrees for the same job. Our results confirm the importance of language in the self-screening process: words matter in different ways for women and men of different educational backgrounds, and materially affect job seekers’ economic outcomes. -3- Research in Progress: “Gender Differences in Performance Evaluations” I use a proprietary dataset from an HR tech firm to examine gender differences in over 100,000 performance evaluations for a sample of 200 companies. Performance evaluations are an important aspect of labor markets, as they impact decisions related to worker productivity, compensation, promotion, and long-term career choices. Preliminary findings reveal that there are gender differences in the way that females and males publicly present themselves in formal evaluations. In particular, the gap between workers’ numerical self-assessment of their overall work performance and their manager’s assessment of them is more negative for female workers than for male workers, indicating that females rate themselves lower than their male counterparts, even after controlling for their manager’s beliefs. Future work will explore mechanisms for this finding, including gender differences in signaling and self- promotion. “The Gender Earnings Gap within Firm and Job: Evidence from Online Self-Reports” (with Matthew Gibson) Using a proprietary dataset of online self-reports, we provide evidence on the gender wage gap after controlling for detailed occupational- and firm-fixed effects, typically not permissible in publicly available data. We validate the sample by comparing it to Occupational Employment Statistics and Current Population Survey data. Estimates of the gender wage gap range from 5 to 7 percent after including detailed controls, smaller than in prior studies. This work illuminates the value of confidential, proprietary data to more accurately quantify existing gender differences in the labor market. -1- EDOARDO MARIA ACABBI https://scholar.harvard.edu/eacabbi [email protected] HARVARD UNIVERSITY Placement Director: Amanda Pallais [email protected] 617-495-2151 Placement Director: Nathan Hendren [email protected] 617-496-3588 Assistant Director: Brenda Piquet [email protected] 617-495-8927 Office Contact Information Department of Economics, Harvard University Littauer Building, Room 315 1805 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA, 02143 Cell phone number: 857-207-5410 Personal Information: born 12/17/1988, Male, Italian citizen. Proficient in English and Italian, intermediate German, basic Portuguese. Undergraduate Studies: Bachelor of Arts, International Economics and Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, 110/110 cum laude, 2007-2010 Master of Science, Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, 110/110 cum laude, 2010-2013 Graduate Studies: Harvard University, 2014 to present Ph.D. Candidate in Business Economics Thesis Title: “Essays in Finance and Macroeconomics” Expected Completion Date: May 2020 References: Professor Gabriel Chodorow-Reich Professor Jeremy Stein Littauer Center 206 Littauer Center 219 617-496-3226, [email protected] 617-496-6455, [email protected] Professor Emmanuel Farhi Professor Samuel G. Hanson Littauer Center 208 Baker Library | Bloomberg Center 361, HBS 617-496-1835, [email protected] 617-495-6137, [email protected] Teaching and Research Fields: Primary fields: Financial Economics, Macroeconomics Secondary fields: Labor Economics Teaching Experience: Spring, 2018 International Economics (undergraduate), Harvard University, teaching fellow for Professor Emmanuel Farhi Spring, 2017 Economics of Banking (undergraduate), Harvard University, teaching fellow for Professor Jeremy Stein -2- Fall 2016 Economics of Globalization (undergraduate), Harvard University, teaching fellow for Professors Robert Lawrence and Lawrence H. Summers Spring 2014 Monetary Economics (undergraduate), Bocconi University, teaching fellow for Professor Angelo Porta and Franco Bruni Fall 2013 Industrial Organization (undergraduate), Bocconi University, teaching fellow for Professor Chiara Fumagalli and Michele Polo Research Experience and Other Employment: 2014-2017 Harvard University and NBER, research assistant for Professor Matteo Maggiori 2013-2014 Bocconi University, research assistant for Professors Chiara Fumagalli, Tommaso Monacelli and Antonella Trigari Professional Activities Invited presentations: 2019: Barcelona GSE Summer Forum “Financial Shocks, Channels, and Macro Outcomes” workshop, Barcelona, Spain; Job market bootcamp, Petralia, Italy; Harvard macro and finance lunches. 2018: briq “Firms, jobs and inequality” workshop, Bonn, Germany; Harvard, macro, finance and public finance lunches. Discussant Degryse, Hans, Karapetyan, Artashes and Karmakar, Sudipto, “To Ask or Not To Ask? Bank Capital Requirements and Loan Collateralization”, Final Workshop of the Research Project “Connecting the Real Economy and the Financial System: Theory and Empirics”, ISEG, Lisbon, Portugal Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships: 2014-2020 Harvard Business School full scholarship 2014-2016 Bank of Italy “Bonaldo Stringher” scholarship 2010-2013 Bocconi University Merit
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