2025 - Seed Grant Winners

The Gender Lab awarded two economics PhD students, Ruikun Ma and Maria Elisavet Peppa, with research grants for their research projects. Ruikun Ma is studying gender roles and family dynamics, while Maria Elisavet Peppa's research focuses on the consequences that family and domestic violence has on economic and mental health outcomes among sexual and gender minorities.

Ruikun Ma

Project Title: Cultural Crossroads: Gender Roles and Family Dynamics in Post-WWII Taiwan

This project investigates how male-surplus refugee migration in post-WWII Taiwan disrupted traditional kinship structures and fostered more egalitarian gender norms, using newly digitised spatial data on Juancun settlements linked to women’s life-course outcomes.

Maria Elisavet Peppa

Project title:  Quantifying the prevalence and consequences of family and domestic violence: The case of sexual and gender minorities

This projects explores the impact of experiencing family and domestic violence on both economic and health outcomes, focusing on sexual and gender minorities by leveraging Australian administrative data from 2000 until 2024.