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Pamela Meyerhofer

Economist

Bureau, Office or Division
Antitrust
Email Address

Selected Publications

  • "Factors Shaping the Gender Wage Gap among College-Educated Computer Science Workers," with Sharon Sassler, PLOS One, Forthcoming.
  • "Does Paid Family Leave Cause Mothers to Have More Children? Evidence from California," with Eleanor Golightly, Journal of Labor Research, 2022.
  • "Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?," with Francine D. Blau and Josefine Koebe, Journal of Business Economics, 2021.
  • "Culture and gender allocation of tasks: source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants," with Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Matthew Comey, Amanda Eng, and Alexander Willen, Review of Economics of the Household, 2020.

Selected Presentations

  • "The Association Between Family Factors and the Gender Wage Gap: The Case of Computer Science," Population Association of American Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA (2023)
  • "Does Paid Family Leave Cause Mothers to Have More Children? Evidence from California," Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting. Virtual, Poster (2022)
  • "Does Paid Family Leave Cause Mothers to Have More Children? Evidence from California," NBER Summer Institute, Children's Workshop. Virtual (2022)
  • "Equality Pays: Equal Pay Laws and Women’s Life Choices," Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference. Montego Bay, Jamaica (2022)

Selected Casework

Education

Cornell University
PhD Policy Analysis & Management (Public Policy)
Cornell University
MS Policy Analysis & Management (Public Policy)
Xavier University
BA Economics and Philosophy, Politics, and the Public

Fields of Interest

  • Labor
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Family Demography 

Professional Experience

Economist
Federal Trade Commission
2022-Present

Post-doctoral Researcher
Montana State University
2020-2022

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