Past Events
Please find links to all our past events stretching right back to 2005.
Free to Choose? The Gendered Impacts of Flexible Working Hours in Brazil
Join us for our sixth session with Lygia Sabbag Fares, Economics Professor at John Jay College (City University of New York – CUNY), on Monday, April 29, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom.
Racial, Gender, and Regional Inequalities in Brazil’s Care Provision and the Evolving Role of the State
Join us for our first session of the 2024 Fall Semester, with Luiza Nassif Pires, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics at Unicamp and the Director of the Research Center on Macroeconomics of Inequalities (MADE) at FEA/USP, on Monday, September 9th, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room at Blithewood, or on […]
31st Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference
The 31st Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference was a one-day, virtual event organized around the topics of Economic Prospects for the US Economy, The Revival of Industrial Policy, Causes and Measurement of Inequality, and Aging and Public Policy: Debunking Myths, Providing Solutions.
Queering Economics: Diversity and Inclusion in the Dismal Science
Join us for our fifth session with Michael Martell, Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College, on Tuesday, April 16th, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. Martell’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask […]
Critiquing from the Margins: Examining the Power of Black Girls™ Critiques of Class-Based Disparities in Schools
Join us for our fourth session with Jomaira Salas Pujols, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard College, on Thursday, March 28, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. Pujols’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask […]
What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Opportunities for Feminist Econometrics
Join us for our third session with Sarah Small, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, on Monday, March 4, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. Small’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to […]
Working the Program: Employment and Poverty Governance in Criminal Justice Treatment for Women
Join us for our second session with Allison McKim, Associate Professor of Sociology at Bard College, on Wednesday, December 6, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. McKim presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to ask […]
Well-being Costs of Unpaid Care: Gendered Evidence from a Contextualized Time-use Survey in India
UPDATE: Postponed to Spring 2024 Sign up for updates Join us for our second session with Aashima Sinha, Research Scholar, Levy Institute, Bard College, on Wednesday, November 15, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Dr. Sinha’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members—both those in […]
New Directions in Money, Finance, and Public Policy
After 2008, traditions emphasizing the political economy of money attracted significant attention for their insights into the unfolding crisis and the impact of stabilization policy. COVID presented another such opportunity. The extraordinary “big monetary” and “big fiscal” policy responses during these episodes offered real-world illustrations of monetary-fiscal operations, technical aspects of public finance, continued financial […]
Remittances, Immunization, and Gender: Polio and Girl Children in the Punjab
Join us for our first session with Aniruddha Mitra, Associate Professor of Economics, Bard College, on Wednesday, October 11, from 5pm to 6pm in the Levy Conference Room, or on Zoom. Professor Mitra’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A session with audience members – both those in person and on Zoom are welcome to […]
Gender Equality and the Economy: Interdisciplinary Approaches
The Gender Equality and the Economy Program of the Levy Economics Institute hosts a speaker series with practitioners and scholars across disciplines from around the globe to address the ever-relevant topic of “Gender Equality and the Economy.” Speakers will present their research and discuss differing approaches to economic analyses through a gender lens. The series highlights the […]
30th Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference
The 30th Annual Levy Economics Institute Conference was a one-day, virtual event organized around the topics of climate change and fiscal/monetary policy, inflation, unemployment and job creation, and the US macroeconomic outlook. You can now view the video recordings here. Presenters Included Daniel Alpert, Westwood Capital and Cornell Law School; Skanda Amarnath, Employ America; Yannis Dafermos, […]