The Levy Economics Institute at Bard College hosted a two-day conference this week on Gender Equality, Tax Policies, and Tax Reform in Comparative Perspective, with sessions on:

• Modeling the Implications of Personal Income Tax for Intra-Household Inequality and Labor Market Participation in Europe
• Gender Dimensions of Tax Reform in Europe
• Gender-Blind and Gender-Aware Tax Policy
• Personal Income Tax in Bargaining Models
• Taxation and Marriage in the USA
• Gender, Taxation, and Development
• Gender and Taxation in Africa
• Gender and Tax Policy Advocacy

Here are the U.S. Tax Profs who presented papers:

• Bridget Crawford (Pace):  One Flesh, Two Taxpayers: A New Approach to Marriage and Wealth Transfer Taxation
• Dennis Ventry (UCLA):  The Politics and Economics of Gender Norms and Competing Family Forms Under the U.S. Federal Income Tax, 1969-2006

For a list of all presenters and the titles of their papers, as well as all discussants, see here.  Bridget offers her perspective on the conference at Feminist Law Professors.