I’m glad to announce that my first dissertation paper is published! You can read it here: genderandset.open.ac.uk/index.php/gend…
This paper challenges the assumption of STEM being a homogenous subject group and investigates variations depending on female representation #gender #STEM

Very happy to share our new OBELIS collective paper, brilliantly led by Pierre Benz, on the decline and persistence of Swiss patrician families at positions of power between 1890 and 1957.

Published in Social Science History: shorturl.at/GRSUY

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

At least two papers now find fewer collaborations between senior men and junior women in Economics post #MeToo . Hopeful this is only transitional as people acclimate to the new equilibrium. But depressing nonetheless.

The other paper by Marina Gertsberg papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Which white men recognize and report sexism and racism in their workplaces? As it turns out, those who have experienced harassment/bullying themselves.

New in AJS, I show how workplace harassment experiences help lower white men's 'meritocratic blinders'

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

News: our Spring Issue has blossomed 🌷 Dive into fresh insights on family dynamics, gender, and educational inequality by Anna Baranowska-Rataj Diederik Boertien Benita Combet || @[email protected] Dr. Helen Kowalewska Anica Waldendorf Sinn Won Han Kristof De Witte Laura Bernardi & more! Don't miss out ⬇ academic.oup.com/esr/issue/40/2

Why is Switzerland (CH) such an attractive place for the super-rich? Because CH offers wealthy foreigners a special tax regime: the so-called expenditure-based taxation, which is explicitly aimed at attracting wealthy foreigners to CH.

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Richest five families in Florence 🇮🇹 from 1427 are still the richest today (archival data). Not only the top shows persistence. Any family who was in the (1427) top third is almost certain to still be there today. Likely many Florences out there

Paper in Review of Econ Studies

📰New publication by me in Social Science Research!

'Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?'

🧵Thread 1/18

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Some things I've learned in 2023:

1. Black kids tend to get placed into foster care at higher rates than white kids with the same potential for future maltreatment in the home

(more: dropbox.com/scl/fi/1vm4t51…)

I‘ve wrapped up my year in style, enjoying the sunrise on a sauna boat. See you next year!

... higher levels of state spending were associated with significant increases in childcare time among low-educated mothers, implying state-level investments could meaningfully narrow socioeconomic gaps in maternal time with children. (2/2) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

KOF-Ökonomin Dr. Isabel Z. Martínez #🟦 spricht im Jahreswechsel-Gespräch mit dem tagesanzeiger über #Ungleichheiten ⚖️ zwischen sozialen Schichten, aber auch zwischen den Geschlechtern in der Schweiz🇨🇭. tagesanzeiger.ch/ungleichheit-i…

Kinder aus Arbeiterfamilien schaffen es bei gleicher Leistung deutlich seltener ans Gymnasium als Kinder aus Akademikerhaushalten. Manche Gründe liegen im Schulsystem selbst.

Dr. @BenitaCombet im @srf-Interview mit Anna Jungen.

Ab Minute 5:19 reinhören:
srf.ch/play/radio/red…

1/ Herausfallende Gebärmütter, Verstopfung, Orgasmen: Wie pseudowissenschaftliche Mythen, Klischees und moralische Paniken es Frauen erschwerten, Transportmittel zu benutzen. 🧵

Potential theory—What if families are maximizing child wellbeing instead of total earnings? And, what if women have an absolute advantage in both earnings and child rearing but comparative advantage in child rearing (for reasons of norms, early training, whatever)?

Wow, what a thread! Superbly interesting, fitting to the tweet I reposted below!

Killer chart from 'women and men at work' paper at today's Institute for Fiscal Studies inequality conference: no evidence that couples choose to maximise hh earnings once children born. Rather they 'choose' to max the man's earnings... #changegendernorms

The slides of this talk on bias in peer review by Stefan Palan 🏳️‍🌈 are now available online: newsletter.uzh.ch/goto.php?l=ihu…

Are you more likely to meet somebody different from you in a big city or in a small town?

Check out our new paper in nature. We refute the myth that cities are cosmopolitan melting pots, finding extreme segregation in big cities.
nature.com/articles/s4158…
segregation.stanford.edu