Seminar Gender Behavior and Decision-Making, with Gabriella Conti

The Women and Science Chair is organizing the 28th session of the seminar «Gender, Behavior, and Decision-Making» on Tuesday, april 29th, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, online via Teams.

We will have the pleasure to listen to Gabriella Conti, Professor in Economics in the Department of Economics at University College London who will present "The Menopause Penalty” co-authored with R. Ginja, P. Persson and B. Willage. 

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Gabriella Conti is a Professor in Economics in the Department of Economics and in the Social Research Institute at University College London; and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and at IZA Bonn. Her research areas of interest are health economics, the economics of human development, and biology and economics. Her research draws on both the biomedical and the social sciences with the aim of understanding the developmental origins of health inequalities, the role of child development as input in the production of lifecycle health and the behavioral and biological pathways through which early life shocks and policies affect well-being throughout the lifecourse.

Abstract

The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause—a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms—also entails substantial costs. Using population-wide Norwegian and Swedish data and quasi-experimental methods, we show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers. The impact is especially severe for women with lower socioeconomic status. Increasing access to menopause-related health care can help offset these losses. Our findings reveal the hidden economic toll of menopause and the potential gains from better support policies.

About the Women & Science Chair   

The Women and Science Chair at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, created with the support of the L’Oréal Foundation, the Generali Foundation, La Poste, and the Talan Group, seeks to engage and foster interdisciplinary approaches to analyzing the causes and consequences of the underrepresentation of women in careers in scientific research and academia. The Women and Science Chair is member of the UNESCO chairs network.

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