During the first UK COVID-19 lockdown, social distancing had many unintended side-effects. One of the darker ones: a shift in domestic abuse (DA) patterns. In a paper just published in Economica, we dig into how exposure plays a crucial role. Link to study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Policy Brief! Domestic abuse: improving risk assessment and response by the police? Evidence and recommendations from Tom Kirchmaier, @drekaterinaoparina.bsky.social, Jeffrey Grogger, and @riaivandic.bsky.social Written by @aadyabahl.bsky.social Read more at: cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...

📚 📣 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!

Nice to see our research reported on in the Guardian. Full link to the 2021 paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out my co-author's @ansolassen.bsky.social presentation of our research at the NBER spring meeting today - www.nber.org/conferences/...

Faculty of Economics in Zagreb is hosting the Summer School Quantitative Economic History in July, for graduate students interested in econ history. Learn from experts in econ history, and mix it with a holiday in Croatia over summer ☀️🌊, with costs covered. Details below:

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

A large gender gap persists in STEM disciplines across the world that is bad for innovation, talent attraction & against fairness principles. On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @ansolassen.bsky.social @cairosofie.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social are sharing our findings ⬇️

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

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. "

Sharing my TEDx talk on intimate partner violence against women. youtu.be/OtNZtU3utlI?...

🚨 Job opportunity for econ students in Berlin Come work with me, @felix-holub.bsky.social and @jonasjessen.bsky.social on topics in gender and labor Deadline Jan 5. Details here; wzb.eu/en/jobs/stud... Please help spread the word @bseberlin.bsky.social

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It's a topic that I think is really important and is my main research agenda. I even got to give a TEDx talk last week on it. Some key facts: ⤵️

📜 Just published in the Journal of Public Economics 📜 "Specialised courts and the reporting of intimate partner violence: Evidence from Spain" I am lucky to have worked with @martammatute.bsky.social and @jorgeghombrados in this paper and thankful for all I learned from them. Thread below!

🚨How do international events shape local hate crime against minorities? 🚨 We study the effects of international terror attacks on out-group hate crimes against Muslims using detailed data in Greater Manchester over 10 years. With Tom Kirchmaier & Steve Machin in the Journal of Law & Economics. ⤵️

What happens to women in economics after having a child? They are are more likely to leave research jobs and less likely to get tenure in the first 5 years after childbirth. Summary of our paper is in @cep-lse.bsky.social Centrepiece and more details in AEA P&P @aeajournals.bsky.social

💥New: What makes the child penalty in academia different? ✍️Ria Ivandic & @ansolassen.bsky.social #AcademicSky #HigherEd wp.me/p4m9em-diB