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    Closing the Global Gender Gap, PED-317Y/ECON-1376

    Semester: 

    N/A

    Co-taught with Professor Rohini Pande
    Understanding the role of gender in shaping the economic, political and social opportunities available to individuals can help us evaluate whether and how societies and organizations may close gender gaps in human capital investments, economic participation and political opportunity. It can also shed light on the substantial variation in the size of the gaps across countries and organizations, and inform the role of economic development and management and leadership in closing the gaps.

    This course introduces an analytical and...

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    Executive Education: Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2016
    https://exed.hks.harvard.edu/features/leaders.aspx

    (Chair) This Executive Education Program is designed to prepare the Wold Economic Forum's select Young Global Leaders to expand their knowledge base in order to better address some of the most pressing global problems. The course seeks to provide YGL's with a deeper understanding of public policy issues in conjunction with leadership skills.

    Layers of Choice

    Layers of Choice

    February 5, 2014

    Kahneman, author of ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow,’ details research on decision-making process.

    Who wants to be a token woman?

    Who wants to be a token woman?

    January 22, 2014

    Iris Bohnet, in Harvard haben die Obamas, George W. Bush oder Mark Zuckerberg studiert. Wie wird eine Schweizerin Academic Dean und damit Chefin von 120 Kollegen an der Harvard Kennedy School?

    Iris Bohnet,, Herrmann, B., & Zeckhauser, R. (2010). "Trust and the Reference Points for Trustworthiness in Gulf and Western Countries." Quarterly Journal of Economics , CXXV (2), 811-828. Publisher's VersionAbstract
    bohnetherrmanzeckhauser_trust.pdf

    Why is private investment so low in Gulf compared to Western countries? We investigate cross-regional differences in trust and reference points for trustworthiness as possible factors. Experiments controlling for cross-regional differences in institutions and beliefs about trustworthiness reveal that Gulf citizens pay much more than Westerners to avoid trusting, and hardly respond when returns to trusting change. These differences can be explained by subjects' gain/loss utility relative to their region's reference point for trustworthiness. The relation-based production of trust in the Gulf induces higher levels of trustworthiness, albeit within groups, than the rule-based interactions prevalent in the West.

    Iris Bohnet,. (2010). Gender Equality: A Nudge in the Right Direction. The Financial Times. Publisher's VersionAbstract
    It is not always easy to make what is seen to be the right choice – choosing an apple over a bar of chocolate, or paying money into a savings account rather than buying a new pair of shoes – but there might be a solution, and it may only take a nudge.

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