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Astier Iona

Iona Astier

Visiting Researcher from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University from January 26th to April 30th 2026.

A Welfare Analysis of Universal Childcare: Lessons From a Canadian Reform

Sébastien Montpetit (University of Warwick)

Committee Deliberation and Gender Differences in Influence

Amelie Schiprowski (University of Bonn)

A Free Lunch? How Changing Childcare Defaults Increases Parental Supply

This session presents causal evidence from a policy reform that shifted public lunchtime childcare from an opt-in to an opt-out default. It will conclude with a discussion with World Bank Education and Social Policy specialists on how these findings ...

Closing Gender Gaps: Evidence and Policy Interventions

A joint initiative of AXA Gender Lab (Bocconi), the NYUAD Inequality Cluster, and Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub, LSE (WISPPRH).

Managers and the cultural transmission of gender norms

Virginia MInni (Chicago Booth)

Savio Giulia

Giulia Savio

Giulia Savio is an assistant professor at Università di Torino. She has been a post-doc at Bocconi University, at the AXA Gender Lab. Previously, she completed her PhD in Economics at Università della Svizzera Italiana. Her interests are in the fields of gender economics, political economy, and public economics.

Beyond the Chores: Mental Load, Gender and Careers

This session presents evidence from a survey experiment with white-collar professionals in Turkey, examining whether informational videos on domestic labour and mental load can shift perceptions of household burdens and attitudes toward the sharing o...

Fertility Regrets in Parents

Ulf Zölitz (University of Zurich)

Caló Ximena

Ximena Caló

Ximena Caló is a PhD Student in the Department of Social and Political Sciences and the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality at Bocconi University. Her research investigates when women's presence in politics translates into substantive change, and how institutional filters and external shocks either expand or constrain women's political empowerment, using quantitative methods and causal inference. Prior to her PhD, she was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the AXA Research Lab on Gender Equality. She holds an MSc(Res) in European Studies from the London School of Economics (2020) and a BA in Political Science and Latin American Studies from Boston University (2018).