Corinne Low, PhD

Faculty Director, Workforce Futures Lab
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Author of Having It All

October 22, 2026

Aspen Digital WIN Summit

On October 22, Aspen Digital will spotlight the award-winning solutions from the Aspen WIN Challenge, including the Workforce Futures Lab’s work, at its inaugural WIN Summit in New York City.

The Summit will convene leaders from business, philanthropy, academia, and the social sector to connect, learn, advance, and scale ideas that will help women thrive and everyone win in a rapidly changing workplace. 

Making Workplaces Work for All

• Outsourcing household tasks: What prevents women from outsourcing more domestic labor? Which interventions could reduce financial barriers or the stigma associated with purchasing household help?
• Gendered division of labor: Why do men take on fewer household and care tasks, and can interventions change these patterns? View working paper: Winning the Bread and Baking it Too: Gendered Frictions in the Allocation of Home Production
• Childcare and coworking: Studying the impact of co-located childcare and coworking spaces designed to support the well-being and productivity of parents with young children.
• Workplace boundaries: Can firms improve retention for working parents by establishing more structured and predictable on-call times?
• Corporate partnerships: Partner with firms to test structured on-call expectations and stipends that help younger employees pay for household services.
• Equitable meritocracy: Using Incentivized Resume Rating to identify gaps in firms’ hiring practices. View published work: Lowering the Playing Field: Discrimination through Sequential Spillover Effects; through, Incentivized Resume Rating: Eliciting Employer Preferences without Deception. 
• The power of time: The role of Assisted Reproductive Technology in career-family timing and increasing access to human capital investments. Published work: The Power of Time: The Impact of Free IVF on Women’s Human Capital Investments;  Older Yet Fairer: How Extended Reproduction Time Horizons Reshaped Marriage Patterns in Israel. (new research coming soon!)
• Busting myths about success: It’s a common belief that men are stronger negotiators than women, but the data does not support this claim. Where are employers mistargeted about what successful traits look like? Published work: The Myth of the Male Negotiator: Gender’s Effect on Negotiation Strategies and Outcomes

Empowering the Global Workforce of Tomorrow

• Interventions to reduce unintended pregnancies and disease burden that may derail young women’s educational investments: 1). Eliminating myths about contraceptives, 2). providing cash transfers to reduce reliance on transactional sex. Working paper: Family Planning, Now and Later: Infertility Fears and Contraceptive Take-Up
• Supporting women’s livelihoods: Partnering with governments to test best practices to support women in creating new income-generating activity with a high cost-benefit ratio and minimal implementation complexity. Working paper: Supporting Women’s Livelihoods at Scale: Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program
• Increasing educational attainment and economic participation: Negotiation training for secondary school girls, testing whether greater agency increases educational attainment, health, and long-term economic participation. New paper forthcoming in AER: Insights: Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls

Working Papers and Recent Publications

The Workforce Futures Lab translates research into practice—challenging persistent myths about women at work and testing evidence-based workplace designs that strengthen productivity, retention, and well-being. 

The workforce is changing both in the U.S. and globally, and firms are grappling with these issues, from the rise of dual breadwinners in the U.S., to the increase in digital complementarity increasing educational requirements and transforming which workers are eligible for which jobs. The caregiving responsibilities of the prime age workforce are increasing, with intensive parenting colliding with the sandwich generation. Amid these shifts, companies have been reconsidering their investments in inclusion and focusing on productivity and growth. 

The Workforce Futures Lab presents a bold, evidence-based vision that investments in workplaces that work for women and working parents more generally can also be investments in the bottom line, and that fostering an educated global workforce can help build and sustain future prosperity. 

Wharton’s Workforce Futures Lab will produce, test, and share rigorous research on what makes workplaces work for all. In partnership with organizations, the Lab will study practical workplace innovations and rapidly translate pivotal academic findings into tools that decision-makers can use.

Through practitioner-focused resources, convenings, media engagement, and digital content, the Lab will turn cutting-edge evidence into scalable workplace solutions that reduce burnout, advance women, and strengthen organizational performance.

The Workforce Futures Lab has been named one of the 18 awardees of the $60 million Workplace Innovation Now (WIN) Challenge, receiving a $2.5 million grant to advance an innovative solution to help women thrive and everyone win in a rapidly changing workplace.

Our WIN Narrative Challenge award will support our work to translate research into practice, busting myths about women at work and creating a new evidence base for firms to boost productivity, retention, and well-being.

Led by Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, and supported by Pivotal, a group of social impact organizations founded by Melinda French Gates, the WIN Challenge was launched in fall 2025 to discover and scale transformative ideas across three key pillars: Culture & Practices, AI, and Narrative. The 18 awardees, selected from nearly 900 applications, represent a new generation of workplace innovation.