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On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 7:47 PM Marianne Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Reproductive Rights in Contemporary Economics and
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> the History of Economic Thought
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> With the support of History of Economic Society and the Masters program in
> the Theory and History of Economics at the University of Lyon 2, we are
> hosting a series of webinars that bring together historians of economic
> thought, applied economists, demographers, and political and critical
> theorists to consider the economics of reproductive rights in contemporary
> and historical context around the world. The discussion of rights to safe
> and legal abortion was recently reopened in Kenya, India, Brazil,
> Macedonia, Russia, South Korea, and Poland. In the United States, the
> recent Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
> is likely to have profound implications for women’s health and
> socioeconomic opportunities. As economists writing on behalf of Jackson
> Women’s Health argued, “there is a substantial body of well-developed and
> credible research that shows that abortion legalization and access in the
> United States has had – and continues to have – a significant effect on
> birth rates as well as broad downstream social and economic effects,
> including on women’s educational attainment and job opportunities.” Those
> cited include Claudia Goldin, Francine Blau, Jonathan Gruber, and Joshua
> Angrist.
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> Linking reproductive rights to economic well-being is not a new
> phenomenon. The right of choice in childbearing has long been understood to
> contribute to women’s economic independence (Wollstonecraft 1798; J.S. Mill
> 1869; Wicksell 1880; Perkins Gilman 1898) and family limitation was also
> viewed as a component of improved living standards (Marshall 1890; Pareto
> 1896). Contemporary studies evince what was well understood by earlier
> economists – that effective family planning, including access to legal
> abortion, is associated with increased wages, higher family incomes,
> greater labor force participation rates, and expanded human capital
> investment (Goldin 1990; Gruber et al. 1999; Kleven et al. 2019; Lindo et
> al. 2020; Myers 2017; Meyers et al. 2019). It is also important to consider
> whether and how undermining reproductive rights might compromise the lives
> of LGBTQ+ people and their families in ways that are different to cisgender
> women or to heterosexual families.
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> Building on recent efforts that have revealed the depth and breadth of
> economic thought on gender disparities in education, labor conditions, pay,
> and ownership rights (e.g., Becchio 2020; Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Cot
> 2021; Madden 2019; Badgett 2020), we seek to encourage dialog on the
> economics of reproductive rights with the goal of encouraging
> collaborations between scholars of diverse disciplinary backgrounds (with a
> focus on collaborations between historians of economic thought and applied
> economists). We also hope the webinars will support the development of
> materials that could be used for teaching special topics courses and
> seminars.
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> Organization:
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> The webinars will be held online at a variety of different times to give
> the greatest opportunity for public attendance globally. Seminars will be
> moderated by Miriam Bankovsky (La Trobe University), Rebeca
> Gomez-Betancourt (University of Lyon 2), and/or Marianne Johnson
> (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh).
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> Zoom links will be made available in January.
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> Schedule of Webinars
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> January - May 2023
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>    1.
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>    Marianne Johnson, Historian of Economics, University of Wisconsin
>    Oshkosh
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> The Wicksells on Procreation and Population
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> Monday January 30 at 9am EST (GMT -05). 9am in New York; 15h in Lyon; 2pm
> in London; 1am (Tues) in Melbourne.
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>    1.
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>    Miriam Bankovsky, Political Theorist and Historian of Economics, La
>    Trobe University
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> Alfred Marshall Weighs in on the Victorian Family Limitation Debates:
> Principles for Improved Living Standards and the Politics of “Voluntary
> Restraint”
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> Tuesday February 07 at 4am EST (GMT -05). 4am in New York; 10h in Lyon;
> 9am in London; 8pm in Melbourne.
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>    1.
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>    Caitlin Myers, Economist, Middlebury College
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> From Roe to Dobbs: 50 years of Abortion Policy and the Economic Research
> that has Studied it
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> Wednesday February 15 at 1pm EST (GMT - 05) New York; 19h in Lyon; 6pm in
> London; 5am in Melbourne.
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>    1.
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>    Mayra Pineda-Torres, Microeconomist, Georgia Institute of Technology
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> Legal Access to Reproductive Control Technology and Women’s Education: The
> Economic Impacts of Abortion Access
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> Friday February 24 at 8am EST (GMT - 05). 8am in New York; 14h in Lyon;
> 1pm in London; midnight in Melbourne
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>    1.
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>    Jemima Repo, Reader in Political and Feminist Theory, Newcastle
>    University
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> The Multiple Legacies of Gary Becker’s Economics of Reproduction:
> Refiguring Reproduction and the Governance of Populations (A Discussion).
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> Thursday March 02 at 5am EST (GMT - 05). 5am in New York; 11h in Lyon;
> 10am in London; 9pm in Melbourne.
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>    1.
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>    Edith Kuiper, Feminist Economist, State University of New York at New
>    Paltz
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> Eugenics, Abortion, and Progressivism
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> March date to be announced
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>    1.
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>    Melanie Guldi, Economist, University of Central Florida
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> Legal Access to Abortion and Contraception in the United States in the
> 1960s and 1970s
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> Friday March 31 at 12:30pm EST (GMT -05). 12.30pm in New York; 18h in
> Lyon; 5pm in London; 3am (Sat) in Melbourne
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>    1.
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>    Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Historian of Economics, University of
>    Bologna
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> Emotion vs. Argument: Roy Harrod and Joan Robinson’s Controversy Over
> Abortion Rights
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> April date to be announced
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> * References and Related Works   Becchio, Giandomenica. 2020. A History of
> Feminist and Gender Economics. New York: Routledge.   Blau, Francine
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> Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought. New York:
> Routledge, 129 – 149.    Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Cléo and Annie Cot. 2021.
> Sentiment and Prejudice: Francis Ysidro Edgeworth on Women’s Wages. History
> of Political Economy 53(5): 799 – 832.   Davis, Angela. 1982. Racism, Birth
> Control and Reproductive Rights, in Angela Davis (ed.), Women, Race and
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> Subjection of Women. London: Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer.   Montaigne,
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> Annie Besant and the Rhetoric of Family Limitation in the Late
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> Montaigne, Maxine. 2017. The Malthusian and the Anti-Malthusian: The Use of
> Economic Ideas and Language in the Public Discourse of Nineteenth Century
> Britain. MPhil Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.
> Moore, Brittany, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Ernestina Coast, Samantha R.
> Lattof, and Cheri Poss. 2021. History and Scientific Background on the
> Economics of Abortion, PLOS ONE.
> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0257360
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>   Myers, Caitlin Knowles. 2017, The Power of Abortion Policy: Reexamining
> the Effects of Young Women’s Access to Reproductive Control. Journal of
> Political Economy 125(6): 2178 – 2224.   Myers, Caitlin, Rachel Jones, and
> Ushma Upadhyay. 2019. Predicted Changes in Abortion Access and Incidence in
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Philosophy, Economics, and Political Science, Hebrew University
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