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Nina Roussille

Nina Roussille

Executive Director of the Hub for Equal Representation

Expertise: labour, gender economics, public economics

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n.roussille@lse.ac.uk
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Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy

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STICERD Public Events and Lectures
Barriers to Female Labour Force Participation

17 October 2025

Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Nina Roussille (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

How do gender norms influence economic behaviour, choices, and opportunities? This event will bring together researchers to present new evidence on the ways cultural expectations and social attitudes shape economic life.... Read more...
External publications
The Illusion of Time: Gender Gaps in Job Search and Employment

01 June 2025

Oriana Bandiera, Amen Jalal and Nina Roussille

Even in traditional societies, men and women graduate from college at increasingly similar rates. Yet their paths diverge upon labor market entry: men work while most women stay home. What drives this divergence? Trackin... Read more...
Journal Articles
The Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality

01 August 2024

Nina Roussille

The gender ask gap measures the extent to which women ask for lower salaries than comparable men. This article studies its role in generating wage inequality, using novel data from an online recruitment platform for full... Read more...
Journal Articles
Worker Beliefs About Outside Options

10 January 2024

Simon Jager, Christopher Roth, Nina Roussille and Benjamin Schoefer

Standard labor market models assume that workers hold accurate beliefs about the external wage distribution, and hence their outside options with other employers. We test this assumption by comparing German workers? beli... Read more...
CEP/STICERD Applications Seminars
Bidding for Talent: A Test of Conduct on a High-Wage Labor Market

05 June 2023

Nina Roussille (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

This paper proposes a novel procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data from a U.S. job search platform, we first flexibly estimate labor supply to differentiated firms. We then use... Read more...
Labour and Education Seminars
Asymmetric peer effects at work: how white coworkers shape the careers of people of color

14 June 2022

Nina Roussille (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Labour and Education Seminars
WORKSHOP CANCELLED

01 March 2022

Nina Roussille (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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