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Brown Bag Seminar: Ana Reynoso
PSC’s Brown Bag seminar series typically convenes Mondays at noon, at ISR Thompson Room 1430, and on Zoom.
Ana Reynoso of PSC and University of Michigan Economics joins us Oct. 20, 2025.
Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions
Abstract: This paper studies how family and firm investments interact to explain gender gaps in career achievement. Using Danish administrative data, we first document novel evidence of this interaction through a “spousal effect” on firm-side career investments. This effect is accounted for by family labor supply choices that shape worker characteristics, which then influence firms’ training and promotion decisions. Our main theoretical contribution is to develop a quantitative life cycle model that captures these family-firm interactions through household formation, families’ joint career and fertility choices, and firms’ managerial training and promotion decisions. We then use the estimated model to show that the interaction between families and firms in the joint equilibrium of labor and marriage markets is important when evaluating firm-side and family-side policy interventions. We find that gender-equal parental leave and a managerial quota can both improve gender equality, but leave implies costly skill depreciation, whereas the quota raises aggregate welfare, in part through adjustments in marital sorting towards families that invest in women.
Bio: I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Michigan and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. My fields of specialization are Labor Economics, Family Economics, and Economic Development. Most of my research investigates how policy affects marital matching patterns and the gains from marriage for different groups in both developed and developing countries. I am also interested in the impact of teaching practices and school schedules on children’s outcomes. I received my PhD in Economics from Yale University in 2018.
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