Patricia Cortes
Dean’s Research Scholar
Professor, Markets, Public Policy, and Law
Education
PhD, MIT, 2006
MA, Universidad de los Andes – Bogota, Colombia, 2000
BA, Universidad de los Andes – Bogota, Colombia, 1998
Selected Research Presentations
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Economics Seminar, Colombian Central Bank, 2024
Cortes, P. Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from an Information Provision Experiment with College Students (, Gender Conference, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2024
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Economics Seminar, Cornell U, 2024
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Gender Conference, University of Tokyo, 2024
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Economics Seminar, U of North Carolina — Charlottsville, 2024
Cortes, P. Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from an Information Provision Experiment with College Students, Microeconomics Seminar, Mannheim University, 2024
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Microeconomics, EIEF – Rome, 2024
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Microeconomics Seminar, Bocconi U, 2024
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Microeconomics Seminar, Columbia University, 2024
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender, National Intelligence Committee Conference on Gender and National Security, Washington DC, 2023
Cortes, P. Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab, Micro Seminar, CUNEF, Madrid, Spain, 2022
Cortes, P. Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab, Applied Micro Seminar, Georgetown University, 2022
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Micro Seminar, Georgia State University, Virtual, 2022
Cortes, P. Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab, Berlin Applied Micro Seminar, Virtual, 2022
Cortes, P. Immigration, Household Production, and Native Women’s Labor Market Outcomes: A Survey of a Global Phenomenon, Immigration Lecture, University of Luxembourg, 2022
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Labor Seminar, University of Nebraska, Virtual, 2022
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Economics Seminar – Panmure House – Edinburgh, Virtual
Cortes, P. Automation and Gender: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Skill Gaps, Economics Department – University of Oxford, UK, Virtual
Publications
Cortes, P., Kosar, G., Pan, J., Zafar, B. (2024). “Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S”, Review of Economics and Statistics
Cortes, P., Jessica, P. (2023). “Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market”, Journal of Economic Literature, 161 (4), 1349-1409
Cortes, P., Pan, J., Pilossoph, L., Zafar, B., Reuben, E. (2023). “Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from the Field and Lab”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138 (4)
Cortes, P. (2023). “Immigration, Household Production, and Native Women’s Labor Market Outcomes: A Survey of a Global Phenomenon”, European Economic Review, 158 (September)
Cortes, P., Kasoolu, S., Pan, C. (2023). “Labor Market Nationalization Policies and Exporting Firm Outcomes: Evidence from Saudi Arabia”, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 71 (4)
Cortes, P., Chen, Y., Kosar, G., Pan, J., Zafar, B. (2023). “The Impact of COVID-19 on Workers’ Expectations and Preferences for Remote Work”, AEA PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS, 113 556-561
Cortes, P., Pan, J. (2019). “Gender, occupational segregation, and automation”, Economics Studies at Brookings
Cortes, P., Goldin, C., Peck, J. (2019). “If women receive more childcare support, will they work?”, Harvard Kennedy School, Evidence for Policy Design
Cortes, P., Pan, J. (2019). “When Time Binds: Substitutes for Household Production, Returns to Working Long Hours, and the Skilled Gender Wage Gap”, Journal of Labor Economics, 37 (2), 351-398
Cortes, P., Pan, J. (2017). “Cross-Country Evidence on the Relationship between Overwork and Skilled Women’s Job Choices”, American Economic Review, 107 (5), 105-109