ANNA LOVÁSZ
Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs
Division of School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
University of Washington
1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA 98402
plovi@uw.edu
EDUCATION
2004–2008 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Washington (Seattle)
2002–2004 Master’s in Economics, University of Washington (Seattle)
2000–2002 B.S.in Economics, University of Washington (Seattle)
1998-2000 Economics, Budapest Corvinus University
AREAS OF INTEREST
Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics, Gender Inequality, Policy Analysis, Applied Econometrics, Experimental Economics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021- Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Washington Tacoma
Courses: Introduction to Macroeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and Policy, Introduction to Social Sciences, Data and Discourse, Research Seminar in Economics
2019-2021 Lecturer, University of Washington Tacoma
Courses: Introduction to Macroeconomics, Data and Discourse, Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and Policy
2013-2019 Assistant Professor, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Courses: Introduction to Economics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Gender and Race in the Labor Market
2011-2013 Instructor, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
Courses: Gender and Race in the Labor Market
2008-2012 Lecturer, McDaniel College, Budapest campus
Courses: Microeconomics Theory, Macroeconomic Theory
2005-2006 Graduate TA, Introduction to Microeconomics, University of Washington, Seattle
Courses: Introduction to Microeconomics
2003-2005 Instructor/Graduate TA, University of Washington, Seattle
Courses: Introduction to Macroeconomics
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2018- Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest, Hungary
2011-2018 Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest, Hungary
2008-2011 Junior Researcher, Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2004-2008 Research Assistant, Labor Project, Central European University
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Szabó-Morvai, Á., Horn, D., Lovász, A., and De Witte, K. (2023). Universal preschool and cognitive skills – the role of school starting age as a moderating factor, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Volume 64.
Lovász A., Bat-Erdene, B., Cukrowska-Torzewska E., Rigó M., Szabó-Morvai Á. (2023). Competition, Subjective Feedback, and Gender Gaps in Performance, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 102.
Lovász, A., Cukrowska-Torzewska, E., Rigó, M., Szabó-Morvai, Á. (2022). Gender differences in the effect of subjective feedback in an online game. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Volume 98.
Cukrowska-Torzewska, E. – Lovász, A. (2020) The role of parenthood in shaping the gender wage gap – A comparative analysis of 26 European countries. Social Science Research, 85, 102355.
Lovász, A. – Szabó-Morvai, Á. (2018): Childcare availability and maternal labor supply in a setting of high potential impact. Empirical Economics 56(6), pp. 2127–2165.
Cukrowska-Torzewska, E. – Lovász, A. (2016): Are children driving the gender wage gap? Comparative evidence from Poland and Hungary, Economics of the Transition, 24(2), pp. 259-297.
Anna Lovász (2016): Childcare expansion and mothers’ employment in post-socialist countries. IZA World of Labor, 319, pp. 1-11.
Lovász, A. – Rigó, M. (2013): Vintage Effects, Ageing, and Productivity. Labour Economics, Vol. 22, pp. 46-60.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Lovász A., Zaher, K. and Dennerlein, T. (2020). Pierce County Statistics on Labor Market Inequalities. Report published in UW Tacoma Digital Commons.
Cukrowska-Torzewska, E; Lovasz, A; and Rigo, M. (2020) The Labor Market Situation of Women in the Visegrad Countries. Policy report for the Visegrad Fund.
Lovász, A; Cukrowska-Torzewska, E; Szabó-Morvai, Á (2019) Career before and after having a child. In: Fazekas, K; Szabó-Morvai, Á (eds.) The Hungarian Labour Market 2018, Budapest: Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, pp. 160-164.
Altwicker-Hámori, Sz. and Lovász, A. (2014): Wage differential between the public and private sector in Hungary between 2002 and 2008 – the long term effect of wage increase. In: K. Fazekas and L. Neumann (eds.), The Hungarian Labor Market 2014.
Lovász, A. (2014): Do women have better opportunities in the public sector? An analysis of the gender wage gap and occupational segregation in the public and private sectors. In: K. Fazekas and L. Neumann (eds.), The Hungarian Labor Market 2014.
Lovász A. (2012): Labour Market Discrimination. In: Fazekas, K. - Scharle, A. (eds.), From pensions to public work - Hungarian employment policy from 1990-2010, National Public Employment Foundation and Budapest Institute, 2012, pp. 154-166.
Lovász, A. – Telegdy, Á. (2010): Labour market discrimination – types, measurement issues, empirical solutions, The Hungarian Labour Market – Review and Analysis 2010. IE-HAS, OFA.
Lovász, A. (2010): The effect of competition on the gender wage gap in Hungary 1986–2003, The Hungarian Labour Market – Review and Analysis 2010. IE-HAS, OFA.
Lovász, A. – Rigó, M. (2010): Estimation of the relative productivity and wage of women compared to men in Hungary, The Hungarian Labour Market – Review and Analysis 2010. IE-HAS, OFA.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Szabó-Morvai, Á. – Lovász, A. (2023). Childcare and Maternal Labor Supply – a Cross-Country Analysis of Quasi-Experimental Estimates from 7 Countries. (Revise and Resubmit: Empirical Economics)
Adamecz, A., Lovász, A., Vujić, S. The effects of intergenerational educational mobility on fertility.
Grossman, P., Lovász, A., Wu, M. Gender Bias in Managerial Feedback: a Randomized Experiment.
Cukrowska-Torzewska, E., Lovász, A., Matysiak, A. (2022). Time to Second Child: Country Differences and Their Sources. PAA 2022 Annual Meeting
Katona S., Lovász A. (2021). The Role of the Gender Composition of Performance Feedback on Peers in Shaping Persistence and Performance. Working Paper : CERS-IE Working Papers 2021/5.
Lovász A., Cukrowska-Torzewska E., Szabó-Morvai Á. Pre-Parental Wage Gaps and Family Policies – a Cross-Country Analysis
RESEARCH GRANTS
2022-2024 Researcher, “The effects of intergenerational educational mobility on fertility” - Hungarian Scientific Research Fund Grant
2021-2023 Researcher, “Women’s strategies towards birth spacing – the role of institutional factors” Polish National Science Center
2019-2020 Principal Researcher, UW Tacoma, Labor Solidarity Project Research Fund
2019-2020 Principal Researcher, Visegrad Fund, “Women in the Labor Market in the V4 Countries”
2018-2019 Principal Researcher, ÚNKP (New National Excellence Program) Bolyai Plusz Grant (Hungary)
2018-2020 Principal Researcher, Bolyai Janos Research Grant (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2017-2019 Principal Researcher, Hungarian Scientific Research Fund Grant FK 124658, “Competition, Gender Differences, and the Role of the Environment – Experimental Evidence from Online Games”
2016-2019 Researcher, EU-H2020, Education Economics Network (EDEN) grant
2016-2017 Researcher, “A cross-country analysis of the childcare effect” GDN Regional Research Network Grant, CERGE-EI
2013-2014 Principal Researcher, “The impact of parenthood status on male-female wage differentials: Are children driving the gender wage gap?” GDN Regional Research Network Grant, CERGE-EI
2012-2013 Principal Researcher, „Childcare availability effects on female labor status, with special respect to flexible employment.” Hungarian Scientific Research Fund grant #101665
2011-2012 Researcher, “Two decades of employment policy”, Hungarian National Public Employment Foundation grant #K-2010/B-10341
2009-2012 Researcher, “Employment and Wages in the Public Sector - Microeconometric Analyses”, Hungarian Scientific Research Fund grant #NK78255
2010-2011 Participant, “Development of curriculum for ELTE University Department of Social Sciences, Economics” TAMOP grant
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2009-2010 Principal Researcher, “Who Earns Their Keep: Estimation of relative Productivity and Wages”, GDN Regional Research Network Grant, CERGE-EI
TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS
2021 COIL fellow, UW Tacoma
2021 SEED fellow, UW Tacoma
2020 iTech fellow, UW Tacoma
2010-2014 CERGE-EI Teaching Fellow
SERVICE
2021 OECD Country Expert – Gender equality and family policies
2019- University of Washington Tacoma, Labor Studies Committee
2015- Founding member: Virtual Research Collaboration on Gender and Family in the Labor Market
2019 Organizer: Prague Workshop on Gender and Family in the Labor Market
2011-2019 Final Examination Committee, MA and BA in Economics, ELTE University
2018 Organizer: International Conference on Education Economics
2015-2019 MA and BA thesis advisor, ELTE University
2013-2018 Curriculum Development and Strategic Planning, Economics BA and MA programs, ELTE University
2017 Organizer: Efficiency in Education Workshop, Budapest
2017 Organizer: Summer School on Applied Techniques, Budapest
2016 Roundtable on Women in Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2012 Roundtable on Gender in Policy, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Budapest
2011 Roundtable on Flexicurity, Ministry for National Economy, Hungary
2010 Editor, The Hungarian Labour Market
2008 Local Organizing Committee, CAED International Research Conference
PRESENTATIONS
Competition, Subjective Feedback, and Gender Gaps in Performance. UW Tacoma research seminar, March 2022.
Competition, Subjective Feedback, and Gender Gaps in Performance. European Society of Population Economics (ESPE) 2021 conference, June 2021.
Competition, Subjective Feedback, and Gender Gaps in Performance. ROSES seminar, University of Reading, May 2021.
Competition, Subjective Feedback, and Gender Gaps in Performance. Symposium on Teaching and Learning, University of Washington, Seattle April 2020. Poster and video.
The Effect of Supervisory Feedback and Competition on the Relative Performance of Women. Prague Workshop on Gender and Family in the Labor Market 2019
Pre-parental wage gaps - the role of family policies. Virtual Research Collaboration on Gender and Family in the Labor Market Online Seminar 2019
Gender differences in the effect of subjective supervisory feedback. European Association of Labour Economists Annual Conference 2018
Gender differences in the effect of subjective supervisory feedback. International Conference on Education Economics 2018
Career Choices Before and after Having a Child, Szirak Labor Market Conference 2018
Childcare and Maternal Labor Supply – a Cross-Country Analysis of Quasi-Experimental Estimates from 7 Countries. Young Economists Meeting, Brno, Czech Republic, 2017.
Gender differences in the effect of the subjective content of supervisory feedback. Economics Nobel Prize Conference, Budapest, 2017
Does Subsidized Childcare Matter for Maternal Labor Supply? A Policy-Relevant Cutoff-Based Estimate. 14th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists
Gender Differences in the Effect of Subjective Feedback. Education Economics Network Workshop, KU Leuven, 2017.
Gender Differences in the Effect of Subjective Feedback. Computational Social Science - Research Center for Educational and Network Studies, November 2016.
Gender Differences in the Effect of Subjective Feedback. Virtual Research Collaboration on Gender and Family in the Labor Market, Spring Meeting 2016
Are children driving the gender wage gap? Comparative evidence from Poland and Hungary.
Hungarian Economists Association Annual Conference 2015
College degree supply, productivity spillovers, and occupational allocation of graduates in Central European countries. Annual Conference of the European Association of Labour Economists 2012
The effect of competition on the gender wage gap in Hungary 1986–2003. 8th International Research Conference on Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data CAED 2008
MEDIA
What Employers Should Know About Motivating Employees, Portfolio.hu
Do Working Women Have More Children?, DeFacto
Gender Inequality in Research, Unikornis
Glass Ceiling, Labyrinth Effect – Women in Science, Fel Online
Gender Gap in International Comparison, Greek Television
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2021- AEA (American Economic Association)
2021- ESPE (European Society for Population Economics)
2018- EEA (European Economists Association) member
2012- EALE (European Association of Labour Economists) member
2015- Hungarian Economists Association
REFEREE
Journal of Experimental and Behavioral Economics
Social Science Research
European Sociological Review
Society and Economy
Review of Economics of the Household
Journal of Applied Economics
IZA World of Labor
Work and Occupations
Hungarian Economic Review
Acta Oeconomica
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2022 Bolyai Award for Excellence in Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2014 Young Researcher Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2008 Rachel M. Storer Prize, University of Washington, Seattle
2006-2008 Marie Curie Fellowship, CEU Budapest and CERGE-EI Prague
2002- Golden Key Honour Society, Omicron Delta Epsilon Economics Honour Society
2001-2002 The National Dean’s List, University of Washington