Becker Brown Bag Series

Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

"The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India"

Emily discussed the low status of women and girls in India, and how the introduction of cable TV in the last decade may have increased the status of women and improved their lives.

Where

The GSB Charles M. Harper Center
Room 104
Lunch will be provided.

Who

Emily Oster
Assistant Professor of Economics

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Emily Oster

Emily Oster is an assistant professor of Economics at the University of Chicago where she studies health and development with a particular emphasis on the interactions of disease and human behavior. She has worked, in particular, on understanding the HIV epidemic in Africa and gender imbalance in populations in Asia.

She received her bachelor's and PhD from Harvard, in 2002 and 2006. She was an inaugural Becker Fellow at the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory in 2006-07.

Oster's work has been featured in the New York Times, Esquire, and Forbes.