Agenda

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