Lunch
Cowles Lunch Talk: Abi Adams, Northwestern University
Abigail Adams is a Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, where she directs the Morton Shapiro Center of Applied Economics.
She is a labor and applied microeconomist with research interests across three main areas: (i) the economic causes and consequences of gender-based violence; (ii) the supply of, and demand for, job flexibility; (iii) the identification of behavioral models of decision-making in observational data or through strategic survey instruments.
She is keen to maximize the impact of economic research in wider society. She was awarded the UK Economic and Social Research Council Outstanding Impact in Public Policy Prize and the O2RB Impact Prize.
