The workshop aims to connect researchers in Armenia with international scholars in gender economics and to foster the development of high-quality research on gender disparities—particularly in STEM fields. It provides an opportunity for faculty members and graduate students to present their work, receive expert feedback, and improve their papers for submission to peer-reviewed international journals.

Keynote speakers

Lídia Farré

Farré is a Tenured Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, and the Program Director of the BSE Master’s Program in Economics of Public Policy. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA and External Fellow at CReAM (UCL).

Her research interests are in the field of Labor and Public Economics with a particular focus on Gender Economics. She has published in the Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and the Journal of Development Economics, among others. She is Associated Editor of SERIEs – The Journal of the Spanish Economic Association and leads several research projects related to gender in the labor market financed by different institutions such as La Caixa and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

In 2022, she served as the president of COSME, the subcommittee of the Spanish Economic Association that is in charge of evaluating and promoting the situation of women in the Economics profession. Currently, she is a Council Board Member of Ivàlua, the Catalan Institute for Public Policy Evaluation.

Sarah Smith

Smith is Professor of Economics at University of Bristol. Her research interests are in applied micro-economics, public policy, and labour economics. She is currently working on issues in both pro-social behaviour and diversity in economics.

She has published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and many other journals.

She is co-chair of Discover Economics, a campaign to increase diversity among economics students. She serves as Secretary of the Regional Standing Committee of the Econometric Society. She has been chair of the Royal Economic Society’s (RES) Women’s Committee (2017-20), an elected member of the RES council (2012-2017) and the European Economics Association council (2014-2018), and Deputy Chair of the REF2021 Economics and Econometrics sub-panel.

Dr. Smith was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to economics and education.

Submission requirements

We welcome submissions of full papers or extended abstracts (with key results) on topics related to gender inequalities, labor markets, education, and public policy.

Submission deadline: May 3, 2025
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2025
Submit to: gendergaps@aua.am

For more information, please contact the organizing committee at the above email address. We encourage you to share this call with colleagues working in the field.

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