Stockholm friends - Mon, Sept 22 at Stockholm University: come discuss new research on gender gaps in academia! Email me or @johannarickne.bsky.social to sign up. Download the program here: bit.ly/45XOkWZ.
See you there! 🙌
Paper forthcoming in AJS! Your last chance to read as a working paper here
Day 3 of the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! After two fantastic days on development economics, we continue with the meeting on “Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital”. Stay tuned for some excellent papers!
Alessandro Toppeta (@sofi.su.se) shows that more school isn't always better: in Sweden, teens randomly tested after holidays show stronger non-cognitive skills, especially those from wealthier families. More breaks may boost development, but they risk widening inequality.
Excited to co-host this year’s Political Economy and Public Economics Workshop with Jaideep Roy @econuniofbath.bsky.social
We’ve a fantastic lineup of talks on voting, governance, activism, media, scientists’ incentives, political discourse, and more
📍 April 25, 4W 1.01, scan the QR code to join!
Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing?
Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace.
CEPR WP: cepr.org/publications...
Ungated: drive.google.com/file/d/1jPOV...
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📢 Join our labor team!
I am looking for two #predocs to work with me and my coauthors on applied labor economics projects in Switzerland!
Job Ad: bit.ly/PredocLaborLugano
Apply here: bit.ly/PredocLLCApply
#econra #USIecon #predoc
Planning applications are down but shifts to large projects mean units may not always be! @nikdatta.bsky.social summarizes our work ⬇️
#Econsky 🎉 Excited that my first post is about #JEM25! The call for applications is now open - deadline: March 16. Join us in Milan on May 29-30, 2025, for a great workshop in applied micro, experimental & behavioral econ. Keynote: Prof. Mathieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon). 👉 demm.unimi.it/en/call-appl...
Dr Amrita Kulka @amritakulka.bsky.social provides expert comment on the UK Chancellor’s pledge today to "introduce a new approach to planning decisions on land around stations” warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...
🚨 New Working Paper 🚨
w/ @pdavidboll.bsky.social and @jvoth.bsky.social
Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!
We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024 ECTA) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.
Link in 🧵 (1/n)
Abstract for Paper "Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner’s Guide and a Stata Package"
🚨 New Working Paper 🚨
w/ @essobecker.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social
Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!
We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.
Link in🧵(1/n)
Come join us at Stockholm University.
Excellent coverage by ZaidJilani on our paper "Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter" with @prashantgarg.bsky.social and @walraslaw.bsky.social
Link to the article:
www.theamericansaga.com/p/scientists...
We have a new update on our paper
"One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap"
w/ @jarellanobover.com, N. Bianchi and M. Paradisi
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I just released Coding for Economists v1.0.2. This update fixes a lot of minor issues and switches to Astral's uv as the recommended package manager. We have some new contributors too. And, big news, CfE also hit 750 stars! ⭐⭐⭐
aeturrell.github.io/coding-for-e...
What happens when you increase the legal drinking age from 16 to 18? 🤔
We explore this question in the context of Spain. We find that the reforms decreased teenage alcohol consumption and improved educational outcomes📒🥂
- with Manuel Bagues
@warwickecon.bsky.social
#MLDA
Gender norms are extremely persistent and constrain women's life opportunities, especially so in poor countries. In my Job Market Paper, I show that grassroots media are an effective policy instrument to address gender norms at scale. #EconJMP #EconSky
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
If you're a PhD student in Economics, please submit your extended abstracts! We always have great programmes, and are very generous with funding.
If you have any questions, write to us using the email on the website, or comment below for short questions.
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
The 13th Warwick Economics PhD conference will take place 3-5 June 2025.
Applications are welcome from every field in economics. Accommodation and travel costs will be covered.
Keynotes by Prof Stefano Caria and Dr Amrita Kulka
The deadline is 31st January! Link in🧵
Our work is featured in @uk.theconversation.com today! Check out the full paper (revised version!) here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
theconversation.com/why-are-fema...
🚨 Job Market Paper Alert! 🚨 🛫 🚢🗺️
How do countries adapt when certain transport modes become more expensive❓
My job market paper investigates how nations substitute between air and sea transport to mitigate the effects of transport cost shocks. #Econsky #EconJMP 1/9
I look forward to the Haavelmo Lecture 2024 with Stéphane Bonhomme: "Heterogeneity in Linear Econometric Models". Come and join us if you are in Oslo December 3! www.sv.uio.no/econ/english...
Portrait photo collage of José Montalban Castilla and Ola Sjöberg.
Congratulations to SOFI's José Montalban Castilla and Ola Sjöberg who just recieved funding from The Swedish Research Council!
#research #SocialResearch #sociology #economics
Claire presented this paper in our seminar last week and I can second this impression. A carefully done deep dive into program take up with a very engaging presentation. Thanks for visiting, Claire, and for taking so much time to meet our group!
Just bumped into this amazing JMP from Claire Leroy who is a JM candidate at CREST focusing on public econ. #econsky #econJM
Check out her work 👉🏽 sites.google.com/view/clairel...
#Econsky If you are hiring this year, please have a look at our terrific #CREST job market candidates! All of them are great and working in different fields so feel free to contact our placement officer Xavier d'Haultfoeuille econ.ip-paris.fr/job-market-c...
Using anonymized personnel records, Olympia Bover, Laura Hospido, and Ana Lamo examine gender differences in career progression at the Bank of Spain. Super interesting. Way to go!
www.bde.es/wbe/es/publi...
@olympiabover.bsky.social @laurahospido.bsky.social
🇺🇸 people looking for a job in 🇬🇧?
The UK's Top 2 Economics department is hiring Assistant Professors 👇
Recently published in REStud, ``Gender Preferences in Job Vacancies and Workplace Gender Diversity,'' from Card, @fabricolella.bsky.social @usiidep.bsky.social and Lalive:
restud.com/gender-prefe...