Webinar Series - Mend the Gap in Europe and Central Asia: Evidence for Policy and Operations

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WEBINAR SERIES: MEND THE GAP IN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA: EVIDENCE FOR POLICY AND OPERATIONS ECAGIL AND BOCCONI UNIVERSITY

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April 15, 2026

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This joint webinar series by the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Gender Innovation Lab and Bocconi University’s AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality spotlights frontier research on women’s labor market outcomes — and what it means for policy and operations.

SESSION #1 - When Economic Growth Hurts - Evidence from Tajikistan’s Cotton Sector (Angelina Nazarova, Senior Research Officer, University of Essex)

SESSION #2 - A Free Lunch? How Changing Childcare Defaults Increases Parental Supply(Justus Bamert, Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University)

SESSION #3 - Beyond the Chores: Mental Load, Gender and Career: Evidence from a Survey Experiment with White Collars(Gözde Çörekçioğlu İshakoğlu, Assistant Professor of Economics, Ozygein University)

SESSION #4 - Firms and the Gender Wage Gap: A Comparison of Eleven Countires(Marco Palladino, Research Economist, Banque of France)

SESSION #5 -Family Compatibility of High-Income Careers and Girl’s Career Aspirations (Dilnovoz Abdurazzakova, Central European University)

SESSION #6 - Correcting vs Preventing the Pension Gender Gap(Qquillaccori García López, University of Copenaghen)