This lecture will be live streamed

After more than half century of progress, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the women’s labor force participation back many decades as they grapple with job and child care loss. Will this permanently set women back? How long will it take for the economy to recover? Our presenter, Professor Betsey Stevenson will cover the current state of the macro economy with a focus on how the pandemic and government policy responses have affected the labor market and the shape of the economic recovery.

Betsey Stevenson is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan. She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting associate professor of Economics at the University of Sydney, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Research, a fellow of the IFO Institute for Economic Research in Munich, and serves on the executive committee of the American Economic Association. She has also served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisors from 2013 to 2015, where she advised the Obama Administration on social policy, labor market, and trade issues. She served as the chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011 where she advised the Secretary of Labor on labor policy and participated as the secretary’s deputy to the White House economic team. Dr Stevenson earned a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

This is the ninth of ten lectures to be presented once each month from September 2020 through June,2021. The next lecture will be held June 8, 2021. The title is:. Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you a few days prior to the first lecture