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SITE Seminar | Misunderstandings of the child penalty graph: Evidence and possible solutions

Join us for the next SITE Seminar! On November 11, 2025, we are joined by Professor Olle Folke (SITE) to discuss how the widely cited “child penalty” graph is interpreted - and misinterpreted.
Start time: 2025-11-11 at 12:00
End time: 2025-11-11 at 13:00
Time zone: CET
Location: At SSE and online via Zoom

Working paper title: Misunderstandings of the child penalty graph - Evidence and possible solutions

By: Olle Folke

Abstract

Note: The speaker has chosen not to share the working paper abstract in advance. The seminar will nonetheless provide an accessible overview of the evidence and proposed solutions.

About the speaker

Olle Folke is Professor of Political Science at Uppsala University and, since 2025, a research affiliate at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE).

His work spans political economics and gender & politics, with recent focus on labor markets and the economics of sexual harassment, including in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He earned his PhD in economics from Stockholm University (IIES) and has held roles at Columbia and Yale, with visits to Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard.

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