Yana Gallen

Assistant Professor at Harris School of Public Policy

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  • Harris School of Public Policy

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Biography

Harris School of Public Policy

Yana Gallen is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. She received a PhD in economics from Northwestern University in 2016. She is a labor economist studying the gender wage gap. Her research focuses on understanding the sources of the gender pay gap---preferences, discrimination, or productivity? She is also interested in the impact of family friendly policies on the labor market, particularly looking at indirect or unanticipated effects of policy reforms. Many of her projects use Danish register data linking workers and firms. Her current work focuses on the savings and career decisions of household before they know their preferences concerning child-rearing.

Working Papers

  • The effect of maternity leave extensions on firms and coworkers. The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, Working Paper, August 19, 2016.
  • Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap. January 26, 2018.
  • The Labor Market Gender Gap in Denmark: Sorting out the Past 30 Years (with Rune V. Lesner and Rune Vejlin). IZA Discussion Paper 10789. May, 2017.
  • Incentives, Distortions, and Peers (with Trevor Gallen, Steven Levitt, and John List).

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