📚 📣 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!

📢 Join us at AOM in CPH for our PDW “Innovating For All: The Role Of Diversity In Shaping Research And Innovation Outcomes”. 📅 📍 Sunday 27th July 2025, 10:45am-1:15PM CEST, Bella Center in Hall C-C2-M3. Organizers: Yotam Sofer, Sofie Cairo, Alice Arusyak Zakaryan #GenderGap#RacialGap

I am heartbroken by the passing of our colleague Ghazala Azmat. A wonderful economist and AEJ: Economic Policy Board member, she was generous with her time and a vital contributor to many areas within applied economics and economic policy. She will be sorely missed. My heart goes out to her family.

Extremely sad to receive news from EEA that Ghazala Azmat - an excellent scholar of gender economics - has passed on June 7 2025. Her work on gender gaps in career aspirations have inspired so many in people in our field. My thoughts go to her loved ones!

What happens to women when they are denied an abortion? Short run: their risk of death rises. A full 15 years later, they experience: more health issues, lower attainment, reduced labor-force participation, higher single motherhood, higher poverty, + greater government assistance

Along with everything else, Trump has threatened to put 50 percent tariffs on the EU, which would basically shut down trans-Atlantic trade. Many people have noted that (a) the EU has very low tariffs on US goods (b) much of the EU surplus in goods is offset by a deficit in services. But ...

#Parenthood shapes scientists — but it should not limit scientific discovery and recognition. We need a #research system where no one has to choose between science and #caregiving. Read @cairosofie.bsky.social ‘s paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... #AcademicSky

🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.

🚨 FINAL REMINDER: deadline for submissions ends TODAY, 15th of May 🚨 We're so much looking forward to the workshop, featuring keynotes by Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🤩 Don't miss to send your best papers using field experiments! 🥳 @cesifo.org @ifoeducation.bsky.social

📢 The next #REGIS seminar will occur this Friday, May 9, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET. 🤓 Jing Zhao (Mälardalen University 🇸🇪) will present the paper by Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, and Lindsey Raymond, titled "Generative AI at Work," published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025).

Grateful that @ansolassen.bsky.social is crossing the atlantic to present our joint work on the motherhood penalty on academic careers at the NBER workshop "Investments in Early Career Scientists" - hosted by Donna Ginther and Bruce Weinberg!

📢 The next #REGIS seminar year will occur this Friday, April 25, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET. 🤓 Astrid Ulv Thomsen (CBS) will present "Climbing the ivory tower: How socio-economic background shapes academia."by Ran Abramitzky, Lena Greska, Santiago Perez, Joe Price, Carlo Schwarz & Fabian Waldinger.

Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic

Bluesky friends: I am looking for a global values survey that covers gender-science norms (to complement classical gender norms). Do you know any open source survey datasets on gender-science? Any papers I should check?

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

Copenhagen Business School is giving me an honorary doctorate, and I cannot overstate how much this means to me. Please join me for the celebration and public lecture on March 21st. Registration in the link below.

Kvinders psykiske arbejdsmiljø er på alle parametre hårdere end mænds. Det viser jeg i anledning af Kvindernes internationale kampdag, 8. marts, i en ny analyse. #dkpol #arbejdsmiljø

📢 Call for papers: 📢 @cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education (co-organized with Rick Hanushek) 5-6 Sept 2025, Munich Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social 👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202... Submission deadline: 18 May 2025 Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The Big Sell: Privatizing East Germany's Economy" By @lukasmergele.bsky.social, Moritz Hennecke, & @mlubczyk.bsky.social

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 ⬇️

🎯 Looking for a PHD? Search no more! Come to the Department of Strategy and Innovation at CBS and help us answer RQs with great societal impact: Who becomes an inventor? How do personal characteristics influence innovation and science? How can we close diversity gaps in leadership and on boards?

🚨 Ph.D. students: don't miss the #REGIS Summer School on #Economics and #Management of #Science, #Tech, and #Innovation in Bordeaux on June 17–20, 2025! Outstanding speakers: Bhaven Sampat, Kevin Bryan, Carolina Castaldi, Steve Gong, Francesco Lissoni + Feedback on research + Valuable networking

Third IPP Seminar of 2025! Following two insightful seminars on migration and discrimination, we continue with a thought-provoking debate on gender. Sofie Cairo, assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School will join us to present his last talk. Also live on YouTube: tinyurl.com/2897fwlw

How much does being a mother penalize women researchers? If you are interested in the topic, join our next seminar session at @ipp-csic.bsky.social with the great @cairosofie.bsky.social. Next Wednesday Feb 5. Everyone is welcomed! 👇

🚨 Region Hovedstaden just posted about menopause on FB -and got it wrong! They skip first-line treatment (HRT!) to suggest… exercise and no smoking?! 🤦‍♀️ This matters. Women are left to self-medicate, buy online drugs and being handed SSRIs. We need evidence-based care—not misinformation

What is the best data for house price falls in Denmark around 2008? Tax records including property wealth from the registers? References to papers using liquidity shocks in Denmark - please send my way. Thx

Danske kvinders representation i ledelsesstillinger ligger et godt stykke under OECD gennemsnit - og under 30 procent!

📢 The next #REGIS seminar year will occur this Friday, November 29, 2024, at 12.30 PM CET. 🔗 Register to the mailing list at www.regis.science to receive the Zoom link. Full paper: lnkd.in/easNUUMw

(Some) Men self-promote in subtle ways. Choice of academic title by a man: "Professor" (rather than "Assistant Professor"). People who don't know, are likely to perceive him as a full professor. Choice of a woman at the same Department: "Associate Professor" (rather than Professor).

💡We're thrilled to announce another engaging industry roundtable at #CDSM24 next week, hosted by Evan Peet from Amazon! Don't miss your chance to join us for this fully virtual event—register by Monday at causalscience.org.

Excited to examine child penalties on academic promotions in Denmark with @ansolassen.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social and Ria Ivandic. The productivity penalty found for wet STEM fields in "Publish or Procreate" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social) delays promotion and deepens the tenure gap

📢 Call for presenter! 🤓 Are you an econ. or management Ph.D. student in science, technology, and innovation? 👩‍🏫 Are you willing to present and discuss a recently published paper in the field? 🗓️ Are you free on December 13 from 12.30 to 13.30 CET? 1️⃣ Have you attended at least one #REGIS seminar?

Today - I presented new results on the child penalty among Danish STEM Master students at risk of publishing at the TPRI Seminar at Boston University. Thanks to Carlsbergfondet and @valentinatartari.bsky.social