📚 📣 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 Copenhagen Business School on Sept 29, 2025 for a full-day workshop on Gender Norms, Family Dynamics, and Labor Market Outcomes 🔗 Registration: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1289/ Featuring: @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social, @esmeezwiers.bsky.social, @jakobsogaard.bsky.social and more 👇👀

Attention Berlin-based PhDs & early-career researchers! On 18–19 September, join the RFBerlin Masterclass with Barbara Petrongolo and get the chance to deepen your understanding of The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market. Apply by 15 August: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...

Really very happy to attend the NBER SI, and for our paper on the role of firms in explaining the gender wage gap - with harmonized data from 11 countries - to be included in the joint Gender & Labor session this morning! Come say hi and enjoy @marcogpalladino.bsky.social's presentation!

Such a cool paper! When I think about interruption at work (and mental load on which we know even less), this is my first reference!

📆 Join us on June 11 at our economics research seminar with Anne Sophie Lassen (@ansolassen.bsky.social), who will present "Earmarking Parental Leave to Fathers: Effects on Beliefs, Norms, and Childcare." More info and abstract: www.jku.at/en/departmen... #EconSky

🚉 —> NBER Spring Meeting on Investments in Early Career Scientists Looking forward to see some cool projects (www.nber.org/conferences/...) and get feedback on our project ‘Parenthood and the Academic Ladder’ (with @cairosofie.bsky.social @riaivandic.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social)

📚 People are more accepting of men falling behind in work and education—and less supportive of policies to help them. The reason? Many believe it’s due to lack of effort. 🔗 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance... @nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social

🚨🚨 Does labor market discrimination drive economic gaps? Can market competition eliminate discrimination like economic theory suggests? What *kind* of discrimination are we talking about. In a new paper, Alex Willen & I explore the question. #Econsky

Excited to be at @princetonecon.bsky.social for the next month 🌸🌸 If around, please reach out!!

🚨🆕 In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with @wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇

Teaching boys home economics in school in Japan increased the amount of housework they did 20 years later www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Do men increase their support for gender equality if they have daughters? Some papers suggest so! Join this meta-science project as a co-author, work with SOEP data and help us all learn more!

Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender? Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world! A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:

Looking back on our Lab² Applied Microeconomics Workshop last Friday. 📖 Thank you to all attendees who joined our half day of presentations, networking and discussions and big thanks to our invited speakers Valeria Zurla and Antoine Bertheau.🎙️

Does parenthood influence career trajectories of academics? 🥁🥁 YES! Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by looking at our striking graphs 👀

Why is there a gender gap in management promotions? Is it due to families’ or firms’ decisions? In a new paper with Frederik Almar, Ben Friedrich, Ana Reynoso and Rune Vejlin, we show that the interaction between families' and firms' career investments is key! www.nber.org/papers/w33438 #Econsky

Join us for a mix of gender economics and meta-science @wzb.bsky.social @bseberlin.bsky.social and beyond, sign-up below

Babies are small. Macroeconomies are big. Put 'em together and you get an absolutely fascinating paper from Claudia Goldin. TLDR: Economic growth that outpaces social growth can dramatically lower fertility rates.

CEP in 2024 October: The impact of parenthood on academic careers was explored in this CentrePiece article by Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen. cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...

🚨 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

Hi #econsky 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ I would like to organize a session on the labor market of health care workers at the 2025 @ashecon.bsky.social conference I need one more paper (abstract) that fit this theme! If this is you, respond here or email me so we can connect!

FELLOWSHIPS for Scholars at Risk Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality. Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field. saferesearchers.eu

Late to the 🦗🐜 party but I liked the Good on Paper episode (also the parts about @andreamatranga.bsky.social research production function) podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/g...

Hi #econsky What are your favorite papers on recruitment and retention of public sector workers (ideally in high income countries)? 🙏

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

Read Alexander's 🧵 on our OECD working paper on the gender wage gap We compare France to Denmark, Hungary, Portugal, and Sweden Women are concentrated in low wage firms and high wage firm send to have a higher gender gap in wage premium Stay tuned for the longer working paper!

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) (How) Does paternity leave shape gender norms? 2) Why are so few men nurses?

5 days left to apply! Join our group in Berlin 🟩 quantitative macro with a focus on labor/gender/intergen mobility/growth (if this is not you, check out other positions in @bseberlin.bsky.social) 🟦 3+3 year position 🟪 no teaching obligations and lots of support Happy to answer any questions!

Is there a starterpack for labo(u)r economists that I missed?

I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ

Join our group at WZB in Berlin And if you don't do macro (gender/labor), check out the other positions within @bseberlin.bsky.social in micro - both theory and applied!

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

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

The parental role models experienced during adolescence have large causal effects on child penalties later in life, from Henrik Kleven, Giulia Olivero, and Eleonora Patacchini https://www.nber.org/papers/w33002

Universal Pre-K has huge income benefits for parents, despite limited academic effects for kids. "Excluding impacts on children, each dollar of net government expenditure yields $5.51 in after-tax benefits for families, almost entirely from parents' earnings gains." www.nber.org/papers/w3303...

Looking forward to visiting @pincetonuni.rpbr.social the rest of October 🍂 Please get in touch if you want to meet for coffee and/or a chat about gender gaps and gender norms!

New CEPR Discussion Paper DP19493 Masculinity Around the World Ralph De Haas, @vicbar.bsky.social, Ieda Matavelli, Pauline Grosjean cepr.org/publications... 📉📈 #EconSky Labour #Economics, #Political Economy, #Public Economics

Join us for "Gender Gaps Across Time and Space" today at the #EEAESEM2024 #econsky 🚨

SEND US YOUR PAPERS!! We are hosting a workshop on "The Economics of Working Environment" in Copenhagen, June 19-21. Deadline for submissions is Feb 15th! Submit via email to [email protected]. #EconSky 📈📉

"Child penalties" have many causes. A challenge is to detect some that policies can affect. Our new paper studies the role of job search frictions: not only may mothers want to work less/in distinct jobs, they may also struggle more to get their preferred work arrangement. (1/6)

Boys from low-SES families are doing worse than girls This is the case in the US academic.oup.com/ej/article/1... But what do we know about other settings? Ideally, I'm looking for a study with Scandinavian data

"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