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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:

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

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.🎙️

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

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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

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Submit now for CSWEP's sessions at the 2026 AEA meetings. Sessions will be on: • Economics of Gender in the Economics Profession • Gender and Climate Justice • Gender, Working from Home and Female Labor Supply • Economic Theory • Global Economy @aeacswep.bsky.social

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

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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.

submitted 63 days ago • 9 comments

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...

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🚨 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

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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!

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

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

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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...

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

submitted 101 days ago • 4 comments

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

submitted 102 days ago • 4 comments

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!

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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?

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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!

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 111 days ago • 168 comments

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!

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

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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

submitted 133 days ago • 1 comment

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

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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...

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📉📈 #CfP: 6th World Labor Conference, June 27–29, 2025, Toronto, Ontario Canada https://www.sole-jole.org/upcoming-meeting https://www.sole-jole.org/assets/docs/SOLE2025/SOLE%202025%20Call%20for%20Papers.pdf Submission deadline Dec 1, 2024 #SOLE #EALE #AASLE #LaborEcon #EconSky orig … 1/2

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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!

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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

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

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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 📈📉

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"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)

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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

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"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

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