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Suppose you move to a very liberal city. How do you raise your kids? Families face what I call ‘the honour-income trade-off’, contemplating three strategies: www.ggd.world/p/what-do-pa...

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You can teach your kids to be religious, but what about the grandchildren? How do you ensure they follow the faith? In my new essay, I suggest that devout parents impose strict restrictions & arranged marriages in order to ensure their cherished beliefs endure. www.ggd.world/p/what-do-pa...

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Only a Brazilian photographer could help me realise my dream of looking like the protagonist of a telenovela!! 😜 Thank you to @folha.com for profiling my globally comparative research on gender equality! Link below 👇

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How has Saudi Arabia doubled female employment & what’s enabled Indonesia’s Islamic feminism? Thank you to the British Academy for this Mid-Career Fellowship, studying the Islamic world’s Great Gender Divergence! This will mean qualitative research & analysis of big data!!

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What are the most romantic songs from world history? NOT songs about unrequited love NOR short-run intimacy ('Baby it's Cold Outside') But songs that celebrate mutual devotion, where each party's utility is weighted equally? I have a research idea & want your help!! 🙏

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Special discount!! We are currently running a 2 for the price of 1 - on Alice Evanses 😜

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How might AI’s impacts vary by gender? 1) women are more inclined to pursue healthcare & jobs requiring social skills, which seem more AI-proof. 2) if fertlity declines, fewer women would be exposed to the ‘motherhood penalty’ 3) the same shocks could hurt men’s status more.

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Generative AI may create both a labour demand shock and an entertainment shock - potentially hurting graduates’ earnings, status and romance. In this rather dark essay, I highlight one potential scenario... t.co/YOIN6GUKa3

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How Might AI Affect Your Status? My new essay reflects on how automation affected working class men's jobs, marriages & politics, Then asks how it might affect graduates' status? www.ggd.world/p/how-might-...

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Hundreds of books have been written about India's resilient caste system. But if you read on Mauritius, Malaysia or the UK, caste weakens very rapidly among the diaspora, perhaps within two generations. Migration's transformative power is hugely under-appreciated.

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"I'm Still Here" is superbly well acted and scripted. It's a very moving portrayal of family love and authoritarianism. (I cried at the end) Beautifully shows how people want to feel like their story matters.

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Given all of the current talk of economic inactivity in 🇬🇧, Few have recognised Hindu & Sikh women’s high rates of employment. This dual earner model helps explain their upward mobility & prosperity. A great success story for migration!

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Why does India have one of the world's lowest rates of female employment, Yet the Hindu diaspora in Malaysia, Mauritius, & the West all have high rates?? My hypothesis - in a handy flowchart

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religious organisations are a little bit like the mafia, telling parishioners/ local businesses: "we'll protect you from this dangerous threat [that we create & make you fear] IFF you give us money". both sets inflate dangers and extract resources under the guise of protection.

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@pavisuri.bsky.social possibly of interest, critique welcome :-)

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In India, people tend to depend on their jati, which can collectively gain status through female seclusion. This enables strict policing & arranged marriages. But caste breaks down with migration, enabling female employment & love marriages. www.ggd.world/p/beyond-cas...

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In India, only 25% of urban women work. Rates are lowest among Sikhs. But in the UK, MOST Sikh women work. I suggest this is because caste hierarchies & policing break down upon migration, enabling Sikh women to seize job opportunities & marry for LOVE! www.ggd.world/p/beyond-cas...

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88% of US Hindus support gay marriage, while only a third say religion is ‘very important’. This isn't just due to migration selectivity. Worldwide, the Hindu diaspora is remarkably more liberal & gender equal. Why? Because caste policing weakens with migration. t.co/I9fqtghDsY

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India’s ultra-low female employment has been the subject of many papers and debates, But hardly anyone talks about the massive differences with the diaspora….

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Love and work are usually treated as separate, but I suggest they are deeply intertwined through India’s caste system. However, when Hindus and Sikhs move abroad, caste breaks down and social policing weakens. My new essay 👇 www.ggd.world/p/beyond-cas...

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Beyond Caste: How Migration enables Love & Economic Prosperity! www.ggd.world/p/beyond-cas...

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Can we use natural language processing & computer vision to track “progressive television” across countries & over time? Might we then regress this against lagged rates of female employment Research idea 👇 www.ggd.world/p/can-we-tra...

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Research idea: 1) Collate the most popular TV scripts from across countries (1970-2020). 2) Train NLP to classify storylines 3) Use computer vision to trace visual cues. 4) Plot "Progressive TV" across countries, then see if it predicts shifts in women's lives? t.co/AsWguCJmeu

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Culture is always contested Conservatives & progressives vie for state power in order to propagate their ideas & persuade the wider public. Media can be hugely disruptive, helping us imagine alternatives. Recognising that power, theocrats impose strict censorship 👇 www.ggd.world/p/can-we-tra...

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Can we track "the Great Gender Divergence" on TV? New essay, in which I present an ambitious research idea for someone interested in economics & culture! 😀 www.ggd.world/p/can-we-tra...

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Great haul!! ☺️

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Why are Homicides so High in Latin America? This essay is a literature review of the intersecting drivers of violence, including @chrisblattman.bsky.social's new book which I strongly recommend! :-) www.ggd.world/p/why-are-ho...

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I sat in Zambian schools for 3 months. One day, the neighbouring class was unsupervised & noisy so our teacher went round to beat the entire class, then proceed to write on the board about human rights. As a student remarked, “rights aren’t real, it’s just to learn for the exam” (translated)

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My career started in West Africa, & I’m looking forward to visiting Accra this summer! Ghana has achieved major gains on gender, reducing teen fertility. So I’m excited to learn about changes in men & women’s lives. If you’d like to meet, please do get in touch! 🇬🇭

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Why are Homicides so High in Latin America? This essay is a literature review of the intersecting drivers of violence, including @chrisblattman.bsky.social's new book which I strongly recommend! :-) www.ggd.world/p/why-are-ho...

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"Bad medicine: Why different systems of organized crime demand different solutions" This is such a fascinating analysis by @chrisblattman.bsky.social, examining locally-specific drivers of violence. He does not credit the state or politicians with a major role in Colombia's decline in violence.

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Countries can be safe, yet still patriarchal (look at the Gulf states) They can achieve rising female employment & representation, despite soaring violence (see Latin America) But a peaceful society is still enormously conducive to gender equality. Forthcoming by me:

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"Democracies don't go to war", they say. Tell that to Athens & Syracuse. Super cool analysis of ancient Greek city-states suggests that democracies actually fought more battles! cc @economeager.bsky.social & @patrickwyman.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Pather Panchali is such a brilliant depiction of 1950s Bengal, centred on the lives of women. It quietly captures entrenched male bias. Apu is educated & celebrated, his sister stays at home waits for marriage, while mother Sarbajaya depends entirely on her husband.

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Why are So Many Latin American Women Beaten & Murdered? Why is the region such an outlier? My latest essay provides insights from my globally comparative as well as qualitative research in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil www.ggd.world/p/why-are-so...

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STEM are the only type of university degrees with stable returns. They are in demand. This graph tracks the returns to uni relative to just school. Outside London, if you don’t do STEM or Law/Finance, uni only boosts your wages by 20% By @annastansbury.bsky.social et al

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Wow

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Another superb analysis. Paradox: many LA countries do not self-report strong pro-male gender norms (see graphic) Violence against women is because their is more violence in general

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Why are So Many Latin American Women Beaten & Murdered? Why is the region such an outlier? My latest essay provides insights from my globally comparative as well as qualitative research in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil www.ggd.world/p/why-are-so...

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