演講者簡介 : Professor Philipp Ager received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2013. He is currently a Professor at the University of Mannheim. His research interests are Economic History, Demography, and Immigration.
演講摘要 : This paper studies how gender-biased technological change in agriculture affected women's work in 20th-century Norway. After WWII, dairy farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by young women. We show that the adoption of milking machines pushed young rural women out of farming in dairy-intensive municipalities. The displaced women moved to cities where they acquired more education and found better-paid employment. Our results suggest that the adoption of milking machines broke up allocative inefficiencies across sectors, which improved the economic status of women relative to men.
Working Paper Title : The Economic Legacy of Civilian Killings: Evidence from the Korean War
Working Paper Speaker : Professor Gedeon Lim
Working Paper Speaker Biography : Professor Gedeon Lim received his Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University in 2020. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests are Development, Political Economy, and Economic History.
