Agenda

27 Ott 2025 09:00

RETAIN - Workshop on Incentives and Barriers to Maternal Employment

Sala Partesotti, San Giobbe Economics Campus

9.00 Welcome from Giacomo Pasini, Director of the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

SESSION 1 - Female employment and family dynamics

Chair: Ylenia Brilli, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

9.10 Daniela Del Boca, Collegio Carlo Alberto - Mothers’ reconciliation issues and Fertility Desires. Evidence from the evaluation of a new Program

10.00 Gizem Kosar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Information Spillovers within Couples: Evidence from a Sequential Survey of Spouses

10.50 Coffee break

SESSION 2 - Parental leave policies, fathers’ involvement and gender equality

Chair: Francesco Andreoli, University of Verona

11.20 Alessandra Casarico, Bocconi University - Leave and Let Leave: Workplace Peer Effects in Fathers’ Take-up of Parental Leave

12.10 Libertad González, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Paternity leave and statistical discrimination

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Roundtable on Policy and Firm initiatives to support maternal employment

Moderator: Francesca Zantomio, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Invited panellists:

  • Alessandra Minello, University of Padua
  • Valeria Zurla, University of Naples - Federico II
  • Maddalena Cannito, University of Turin

16.00 Coffee break

SESSION 3 - Results from the RETAIN project

Chair: Pamela Giustinelli, Bocconi University

16.30 Eleonora Matteazzi, University of Verona - Ready to Share? An ex ante Evaluation of Debated Family Policies: Survey evidence from subjective expectations about fertility and childcare arrangements in Italy

17.00 Simona Fiore, University of Verona - Does expanding nursery places affect mothers’ employment? New evidence from a municipal level analysis in Italy

17.30 Concluding remarks: Eleonora Matteazzi, University of Verona

Organizing Committee: Ylenia Brilli, Pamela Giustinelli, Eleonora Matteazzi, Lucia Schiavon

Registration is needed to participate in the workshop; please complete the registration form at this link. Deadline for registrations: October 17th, 2025

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L'evento si terrà in inglese

Organizzatore

Department of Economics (TMDEC)

Link

https://forms.gle/qGayXj9TtgSDqYR87

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