Seed Grant Winners

The Gender Lab awarded two economics PhD students, Xinran Hu and Renee Zhou, with research grants for their research projects. Xinran Hu is studying the impact of gender norms on decision-making. Renee Zhou's research estimates the gender gap in labour market outcomes.

Xinran Hu

Project Title: Coresidence Norms and Household Decision-Making in Timor-Leste

The research seeks to understand how coresidence norms, which guide whose parent(s) a married couple lives with, influence the couple's decision-making. Utilizing Timorese context with natural variation along different coresidence norms, the project seeks to use lab-in-the-field experiments to fully analyse how the presence of different parties, along with the couple, impact their interactions.

Renee Zhou

Project Title: Market Access and the Gender Gap in the Labour Market

The paper examines whether market access, induced by transportation infrastructure, affected the gender gap in labor market outcomes in China.

The Gender Lab Seed Grants

The FBE Gender Lab aims to provide up to two seed grants annually in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The seed grants cover direct research costs such as data collection and travelling to conduct fieldwork.