Self promotion… but my JMP, presented at PEIO, on how CEDAW reduces informal employment recently got accepted at AJPS… just waiting for the technical check and reproduction check to finish. Current version (figs are non-AJPS specs… e.g., landscape figs) is at: www.chrisgahagan.com/Gahagan.Brea... :)

Lastly, I am on the job market this year. I’d be thrilled to speak about this paper and current and future projects in my pipeline! 8/8

A working version of this paper can be found on my website (link in bio). I am very thankful for all who have offered feedback on the paper - it is undoubtedly better because of your comments and critiques. 7/8

Moreover, transitioning women into the formal labor force is normatively important, since formal work often comes with better pay, safer working conditions, and decreased rates of poverty and inequality. 6/8

to the formal economy. This transition is important since it can act as a bulwark against economic shocks, which informal workers are especially susceptible to. 5/8

I also demonstrate CEDAW has unexpected but desirable
downstream consequences that further improve women’s economic outcomes by facilitating
movement from the informal economy (unregulated and untaxed legal activities that are deliberately hidden from public authorities) 4/8

By leveraging variation in ratification timing, I show that CEDAW ratification results in improvements in women’s economic rights by decreasing gendered legal barriers to employment. But that’s not all! 3/8

In my paper, I challenge prior findings that the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has failed to help out women economically. 2/8