2024 Cunningham Lecture: Presented by Professor Betsey Stevenson

Marriage, family and work in an age of rising gender equality

Date: Thursday 11 April
Time: 5.00 - 6.00pm lecture, 6.00 - 7.00pm refreshments
Location: Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington

Betsey Stevenson is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan. She is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting associate professor of economics at the University of Sydney, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, and serves on the executive committee of the American Economic Association. She served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2015 where she advised President Obama on social policy, labor market, and trade issues. She served as the chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011, advising the Secretary of Labor on labor policy and participating as the secretary's deputy to the White House economic team. She has held previous positions at Princeton University and at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

Dr. Stevenson is a labor economist who has published widely in leading economics journals about the labor market and the impact of public policies on outcomes both in the labor market and for families as they adjust to changing labor market opportunities. Her research explores women's labor market experiences, the economic forces shaping the modern family, and how these labor market experiences and economic forces on the family influence each other. She is a columnist for Bloomberg View, and her analysis of economic data and the economy are frequently covered in both print and television media.

The Cunningham Lecture is the flagship annual public lecture of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, presented each year by an eminent social scientist. This free public lecture will be jointly hosted in 2024 by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and UNSW Sydney.