It suggests that justice systems can do better by victims, and views can change. More work is needed to understand how to convert this into lasting and more broad-based change, but this work provides a glimmer of hope for improvements. [5/5]

And that story is in my view a cautiously positive one. Female judges dramatically change their propensity to grant divorces when there is domestic violence after #MeToo. However, this effect is not persistent and not there for male judges. Still, this shows some promise. [4/5]

We leverage the timing of the #MeToo movement in China combined with a big data collection exercise to examine how this movement impacted judge's decisions. The paper does a lot of work to carefully estimate effects, but the conditional raw means really tell the story. [3/5]

Too often, victims of GBV are failed by criminal justice systems. Restraining orders are denied, divorces are prevented, and the list goes on. This inaction can lead to lives lost. In this paper we try to understand how and whether attitudes of judges can change. [2/5]

Breaking my social media hiatus to share some new work. Please see my fabulous co-author
@shuaichenecon.bsky.social 's full thread below, but a few of my thoughts.

First, I've spent lots of time focused on costs of gender-based violence. I'm now keen to think of how to help survivors. [1/5]

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Not sure I have the bandwidth to learn another social media platform, but here goes...my first post here:)

Excited to share a new paper:

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 w/ Dave Macdonald & Jerry Montonen.

Abstract pictured below!