Yana Gallen Assistant Professor Contact Email Yana Gallen Curriculum Vitae (PDF) Visit Professional Website http://yanagallen.com About 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 focused on understanding why, despite decades of progress in educational attainment and inclusion in the labor force, women still earn substantially less than men. Her work highlights parenthood as a crucial factor driving a wedge between male and female earnings. Working Papers The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy. (with Juanna S. Joensen, Eva Rye Johansen, and Gregory F. Veramendi). Conditionally Accepted at American Economic Review. Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice. (with Melanie Wasserman). Conditionally Accepted at Review of Economic Studies. Remote Work as Childcare: Implications for Parental Earnings. (with Stephanie Karol, Dmitri Koustas, and Ithai Lurie). Workplace Amenities and the Gender Pay Gap. (with Nabanita Datta Gupta, Kristian Stamp Hedeager, and Kerstin Holzheu). Post-Roe Planning: The Effect of Dobbs v. Jackson on Contraceptive and Sterilization Choices. (with Daisy Lu). The effect of parental leave extensions on firms and coworkers. R&R at Industrial Relations. Incentives, Distortions, and Peers (with Trevor Gallen, Steven Levitt, and John List). Motherhood and Career Trajectories. In preparation for the Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Care. Published Papers Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap. Accepted at the Journal of the European Economic Association. Does Information Affect Homophily? (with Melanie Wasserman). Accepted at Journal of Public Economics. Do Male and Female Students Use Networks Differently? (with Melanie Wasserman). AEA Papers and Proceedings. 111 (2021). The labor market gender gap in Denmark: Sorting out the past 30 years (with Rune Lesner and Rune Vejlin). Labour Economics. 56 (2019). Charitable donations are more responsive to stock market booms than busts (with John List). Economics Letters. 110 (2011).