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Yana Gallen
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
Yana Gallen is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. She is a labor economist studying the gender wage gap. Her recent research estimates the effects of unplanned pregnancies on women’s careers and explores whether delaying pregnancy can reduce these career impacts. Her work also examines how new entrants to the labor market learn to navigate work-family trade-offs. Gallen received a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 2016.
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