Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship — 21 March 2024
Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2024: Henrik Kleven
Henrik Kleven is the Lynn Bendheim Thoman, Class of 1977, and Robert Bendheim, Class of 1937, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He is appointed jointly by the Department of Economics and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is currently studying how child penalties -- i.e., the effects of parenthood on women relative to men — affect gender inequality in labor market outcomes. He is especially interested in understanding how general child penalties are, how they vary with political and cultural institutions, and how they evolve with economic development.