📚 📣 Are you in the Stockholm area on September 22nd? Come discuss new research about gender gaps in academia at Stockholm University! Email me to sign up. Program below!

Update #2, RETRACTED: 15 months after we (w @ollefolke.bsky.social and @johannarickne.bsky.social ) submitted the initial comment to the Journal, we've noticed the paper was ultimately retracted. Retraction note here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 Submit your paper to the Leibniz Open Science Day! I will be there to talk about our recent experience with replicating Ciacci (2024) about impacts of the Swedish legislation that banned sex purchases. Call for papers: www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns...

Update: We submitted the comment to the Journal of Population Economics, and today we got a desk reject with this motivation. However, we do not know their conclusion about the main results and why the paper was not retracted. Clearly, they do not hold. 1/4

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵 Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

A study of the consequences of revolving door laws for political selection in US state legislatures, from Raymond Fisman, Jetson Leder-Luis, Catherine M. O'Donnell, and Silvia Vannutelli https://www.nber.org/papers/w33626

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... 🧵 1/

Thanks for a great conference @henninghermes.com Sarah Necker, and Sebastian Blesse! Highlights included many interesting talks and seeing @michelebelot.bsky.social in person! 🌸🌸

Job alert! 🚨 PLEASE SHARE! I'm hiring a LSE Fellow (postdoc) in the School of Public Policy! To provide teaching support on our core political science course (which is what I teach) + time for individual research. Closes March 31: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Questions? Email me!

Very interesting new research on quotas in Morocco. 👇 Even in a context w relatively conservative gender norms, women elected via quotas are not seen as less competent. We often see this assumption that quotas reduce quality in the media or from political elites & here more evidence refutes it.

Do new parties bring new types of politicians? If so, which ones? Our new paper in @thejop.bsky.social examines the labor market backgrounds of politicians in Sweden’s Green and Radical Right parties. Here’s what I, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and Jan Szulkin found: 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1086/730722 1/12

🚨New Workshop🚨 “𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐦 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬” Organized by Bocconi Axa Gender Lab,the WISPPRH at the lSE, @margauxsuteau.bsky.social & NYU Abu Dhabi ✨ 👩‍💻Online or in-person participation is more than welcome! Registration & info👉 www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic... 🔗

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

🚨 New publication 🚨 How do social networks shape job referrals? We conducted a field study to explore gender homophily in referral hiring. Turns out, both men and women mainly refer candidates of their own gender. 🧵👇 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.la... With @karinhederos.bsky.social. #econsky

Read our new paper on how the economic empowerment of one generation of women drives greater political officeholding for the next 💪✨

Good morning all political scientists! APSA isn't just my favorite conference—I just found out that economists have proven it boosts your chances of finding productive research collaborations! Shoutout to Fernande Leon & team for the research! 🙌 @apsa.bsky.social

What really annoys me about media coverage of alt protein as a researcher in this space is that there are reams of open-access, easily findable peer-reviewed paper, some of which researchers like myself and Matt have then translated for a popular audience, and that just don't get used as sources.

No other political opinion variable measured in the data show the same kind of polarization over time as views about gender equality.

New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈 Read: osf.io/preprints/os... Findings 🧵👇

For people in Sweden who are positive to financing Swedish health care with private insurance: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

Excited to share our new paper “Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians”, accepted at APSR! Co-authored with @nazita.bsky.social. Available at: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Do women earn less than men because they are less competitive? This awesome paper by @ErnestoReuben, Paola Sapienza, and @zingales shows that once we measure earnings some years after graduation, competitiveness does not explain the gender gap (or predict earnings) 🧵 1/7

Happy recipients of the Assar Lindbeck Medal, a career award for the best Swedish economist(s) under 45. 🥂 🎉

A summary of our new paper on working-class political representation in the APSR! Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

In memory of Nora. The call for the special issue of the European Economic Review in memory of Nora Szech is open, with a submission deadline of December 16th. ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro... #EconSky

Thank you, ERC for the chance to study sexual harassment prevention with a consolidator grant! Yay!! Looking forward to working with wonderful colleagues on this important topic.

Polisky! With @danieladonno.bsky.social @parzetterberg.bsky.social, we are excited to share this new open access article in the American Political Science Review. Can autocrats burnish a reputation for democracy by advancing women’s rights? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My recent paper in Economic Journal: In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement. Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt

"Women spend so much more energy being nice to people in the workplace! When will they ever get credit for that?!” This audience question is common in our public talks about research on gender equality in the labor market. Our new paper gives striking evidence on this point. 1/7

Hello Bluesky! How does one link posts into a thread on here...?