Economists care more and more about meaningful work! But who has more meaningful jobs in the labor market? Some key patterns from our recent paper in Management Science using nationwide Swedish survey data (N=121,000) (doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2…). 1/8

Work with Hye Young You is out at the JOP: journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/XX7FAJR…. We document a systematic relationship between electoral INsecurity and firm investments in a district, operationalized as opening a new subsidiary.

Chris Karpowitz, @quinmonson, Jessica Preece, & Alejandra Gimenez Aldridge argue that existing explanations of the partisan gender gap undervalue voters’ contributions by focusing on voter responses to candidate sex rather than candidate gender. #APSRFirstView .
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📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢 Sandra Håkansson employs survey experiments in 🇸🇪 & 🇺🇸 to understand underlying mechanisms in violence against women in politics in 'Explaining Citizen Hostility against Women Political Leaders'
🌟Available #OpenAccess 🌟cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Sexuella trakasserier på arbetsplatsen kan leda till ökad ekonomisk ojämlikhet, det har nationalekonomen Johanna Rickne vid Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) tittat på i sin forskning.

#InternationalWomensDay #InternationellaKvinnodagen #Nationalekonomi #Löneskillnader

``How politics is perceived matters for political selection & policy: when portrayed as enabling pro-social action ordinary people run for office, get elected, and make policies that reflect voter preferences.''

Recently accepted paper, from Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار and Yasir Khan 👇

Olle Folke This paper by Soumitra Shukla is especially interesting in following the entire hiring process and showing that indeed, when it comes to caste and elite jobs, bias in hiring is strong in the final stage, something audit studies would not capture.

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A friendly reminder. Audit studies do not measure gender bias in hiring. They measure gender bias in the first step of the hiring process, the evaluations of written applications.

Jag var i #svtagenda igår och berättade om min forskning gällande ökande skillnader mellan hur kvinnor och män tycker och tänker politiskt. Kvinnor och män har aldrig röstat så olika som vid valet 2022. Läs gärna min och Richard Karlsson rapport på ämnet. gu.se/sites/default/…

If methods bro's spent more time writing/publishing stuff instead of trash talking people whose work they find inferior, the world would be a better place.

Delighted to see that my new article with Andrea Aldrich is out today in Journal of Politics @[email protected] . In it, we combat stigma that gender quotas lead to a reduction in political quality #Thread 1/

(doi.org/10.1086/727603) Nottingham Politics

Very excited about this workshop, please submit papers!

During the 6 mths when my partner was on paternity leave, we often talked about the many ways we felt it was benefitting our family. I also became curious about the research on the effects of PL policies.I summarized what I learned from that research here: freepolicybriefs.org/2024/02/05/fat…

Min institution Department of Government, Uppsala University driver podden 'Begreppsbiblioteket' som reder ut centrala statsvetenskapliga begrepp. I det senaste avsnittet försöker jag förklara hur den svenska metoden för att fördela politiska mandat, 'jämkade uddatalsmetoden', fungerar. podbean.com/media/share/pb…

Vi får inte heller glömma att scientologerna också driver behandlingshem där de utgår från Hubbards läror. narconon.se Kanske något för Jakob Forssmed att titta närmare på.

Peter Buisseret Olle Folke Johanna Rickne Carlo Prato propose a theory of party list choice and elections in list PR systems: list ranks depend on party policy goals and the competitive environment.  AJPS doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

It was an honor to get the opportunity to be the 'faculty opponent' for Jana Schwenk's great thesis and it was a pleasure to discuss it with her!