Olle Folke
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Professor at the department of Government at Uppsala University. My main reserach fields are political economics and gender & politics
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Me and
@johannarickne
’s paper on promotion to top jobs and marriage stability was just published in AEJ: Applied Economics. This picture shows the main finding of the paper: promotion increases the divorce probability for women, but not for men. 1/10
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Our family firm is expanding: meet the new RA! His main task will be screaming at reviewer 2.
@johannarickne
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Hoppas på att en dag bli en så pass skicklig forskare att jag vet svaret innan jag gjort undersökning!
Hjälp mig att genomföra min nya granskning! Boktitel: "Så tar genusideologin över svenska universitet"
För att kunna jobba på heltid med boken är jag tjänstledig från SvD. Därför startat en crowdfundingkampanj på Kickstarter. Hjälp till om du vill!
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Very excited to have signed on as a full professor at my current home department
@UU_PoliSci
! Looking forward to spending more time with my great colleagues now that 18 months of working from home seems to be coming to and end 🥳🥳
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Excited to share our new paper “The Class Ceiling in Politics” conditionally accepted at
@apsrjournal
! Co-authored with
@johannarickne
. Available at: 1/9
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Jag har skrivit en recension av "Genusdoktrinen" där jag går igenom hur boken vinklar och felrepresenterar forskningsläget om jämställdhet inom akademin.
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We are very excited to announce the schedule for our new CEPR Gender Economics Webinar. Please join us every second Monday at 4pm CET, starting on September 21st. Information and registration details here: ]
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This paper by
@RiccardoCiacci
argues that Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sexual services increased rapes by about 50%. Two of his analyses rely on the national timing of the law. However, if we look at the national yearly average there is no such increase. (1/3)
Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape.
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Regression discontinuity designs in electoral settings are incredibly popular. However, the “canonical” RDDs are in plurality elections. In this thread, I will provide some suggestions on how to implement RDDs in PR systems and how to avoid the most common pitfalls. (1/10)
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För den som är intresserad av "klanröstning" i personvalet rekommenderas
@SaraVxo
s avhandling om nätverks betydelse för personröster. Den visar att "klaner" som Rotary och frikyrkor är en nyckel för framgångsrika personvalskampanjer
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An early Christmas treat 🎅🎅🎅 My paper "Economic and Social Outsiders but Political Insiders: Sweden's Populist Radical Right" with
@johannarickne
, Ernesto Dal Bo, Fred Finan, and Torsten Persson was just accepted at the Review of Economic Studies.
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The Department of Government at Uppsala University is hiring a full professor (any field). Please apply to join our great department which has, among other things, a great group in Gender and Politics (
@uppgap
).
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Who is actually smarter, epidemiologists or economists? Our paper "Who Becomes a Politician" provides an answer to this rather strange debate. Econ and Poli Sci PhDs working in universities have similar cognitive scores, but both lose out to the average medical doctor.
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Candidates for Swedish political parties differ starkly in their experiences growing up. This figure shows the share that had a rich parent (above 90th income percentile) or a poor parent (less than 60 % of median income) during adolescence (age 15 to 18).
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What can we learn from this? Individual women might want to “pick the right husband”, as argued by successful Swedish politician
@birgittaohlsson
. At the macro-level, gender equality in the labor market will be hard to achieve without gender equality in couple formation. 10/10
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Very excited to now have all the paperwork confirming that me and
@johannarickne
will spend the next academic year at Yale as visiting professors!
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Otroligt kul och en ära att få Assar Lindbeck-medaljen! Även fint att få var ung fram till 45.
Assar Lindbeck-medaljen 2023 tilldelas professorerna
@OlleFolke
och
@johannarickne
för deras nydanande forskning om jämställdhet och politisk ekonomi.🌟
Läs pressmeddelandet och priskommitténs nominering här:
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Why is there a negative effect? A “temptation effect” would imply that promoted women meet a bunch of hot guys and “trade up”. An audience of female politicians will usually crack up when they hear this. Indeed, we see that promoted women are slow to enter new relationships. 6/10
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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.
Meta-analysis of field studies on gender bias in hiring
In male-dominated/gender-balanced fields, male applicants were favored before 2009. Since then, however, there's been no consistent bias or even a weak pro-female bias.
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Incredible sloppy reporting of the
@nytimes
If we want to discuss the development of the Swedish welfare state oneneeds to discuss the $20 billion tax cuts implemented in the last 15 years, a number far higher than any estimated cost of immigration.
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Divorce is not explained by “short term” factors such as passing the husband in income (most women in our sample out-earn their husband prior to the promotion). Rather, the promotion seems to be the final straw in a long process of moving away from the initial expectation. 9/10
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I am so happy to finally have this working paper out! It has been the most rewarding, interesting, and also the most challenging project I have worked on.
New working paper on sexual harassment! We do three things: i) describe the variation in self-reports of sexual harassment across occupations and workplaces, ii) measure how workers valuate the risk of harassment, and iii) test if employers compensate that risk. Thread [1/16]
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Our paper on "Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man" is now in print!
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Two variables approximate how traditional the marriage was in its early days (i.e. 20 years prior to the promotion): i) the spousal age-gap, and ii) the division of parental leave. Our analysis shows that women’s divorces are concentrated to the least egalitarian couples. 8/10
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Me and
@johannarickne
are teaching the course "Methods for policy analysis and evaluation" at the Essex summer school. Please come take the class if you're PhD or masters student interested in causal inference (especially related to gender issues)
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We argue that traditional gender norms on couple formation may be behind the divorce effect. Most women in our data have “married up”, while the men have “married down”. Both men and women who reach top jobs have relationships that initially focused on the husband’s career. 7/10
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Our new working paper shows that Swedish municipal politicians live in socio-economically privileged neighborhoods that they shield from school closures and the construction of multi-family homes.
We have a New Working Paper on the political economy of politicians’ neighborhoods! We show that politicians live in richer neighborhoods and protect them from undesirable buildings and the removal of public goods. A thread 1/11, and the Paper:
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I am very excited to see our paper on “Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market,” out in the QJE. For a longer thread on the paper see . This paper highlights the importance of discrimination in work conditions. 1/5
Recently accepted by
#QJE
, “Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market,” by Folke (
@OlleFolke
) and Rickne (
@johannarickne
):
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A great, but depressing paper by
@saskatchewin
Female surgeons are punished for surgery deaths, while male surgeons aren't
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Very happy to see our paper out in the AJPS! Carlo’s thread does a great job of summarizing the paper, but I also want to further highlight a methodological contribution. 1/6
Do parties contribute to positive political selection, or do they simply respond to voters' demands? In a new
@AJPS_Editor
paper with
@PeterBuisseret
,
@OlleFolke
. and
@johannarickne
, we argue it's the former 1/10
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Our paper on "Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man" () was just accepted to the American Economic Review
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We depart from the fact that women are underrepresented in top jobs throughout the world and across sectors of society. While some research points to the importance of family constraints in explaining women’s absence, there is no research on how promotion affects divorce. 2/10
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For democrats depressed about the Governor's election in Florida, my JOP paper with Bob Erikson and Jim Snyder suggests a 3 to 4 percentage point penalty in the state presidential vote share from winning the Governors elections in midterm years
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For promotions to CEO, we can only compare promoted men with promoted women. This comparison shows an acceleration of divorce after promotion for women but not for men. The results from politics seem to extend to the private sector. 5/10
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Very excited to have this new paper out! Working on this paper made me reflect on how much better the work environment has been in the more gender-balanced workplaces I've worked in. All feedback is very welcome!
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"And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,"
I cannot believe what I'm reading here...
The current CEO of
@iza_bonn
,
@simon_jaeger
, has decided to depart from his leadership role [...] Effective January 1, 2024, Armin Falk, the current CEO of briq Institute, will take over the leadership of IZA
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Great paper by Doug Almond and Xinming Du. Late bedtimes (measured via late night tweeting) reduces Trumps performance the next day and makes him moody!
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We have a lot of PhD positions this year! Please reach out to me if you have any questions about the department in general, or about our (both large and great) gender and politics group.
Applications are now open for up to 7 fully-funded PhD positions at our department! Looking forward to receiving applications until 05 Feb 2021 - come work with us!
#AcademicChatter
#polisci
@uppsalauni
@UU_University
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The call for applications for the PhD program at my department is now out. Me and
@johannarickne
are hoping to hire two PhD students to our project on political representation (with a focus on gender issues)
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This makes me very happy!
I am very excited to announce that I have been appointed full professor of economics at SOFI, Stockholm University! Yey!
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Interesting column in the NYT that cites mine and
@johannarickne
's paper on promotions and divorce!
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Very excited to present our paper on the neighborhoods of politicians today at the NBER-SI Urban Economics, for the full schedule see updated link to paper here:
We have a New Working Paper on the political economy of politicians’ neighborhoods! We show that politicians live in richer neighborhoods and protect them from undesirable buildings and the removal of public goods. A thread 1/11, and the Paper:
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This is such a good, but also depressing, paper. It clearly shows why a discriminatory work environment, rather than preferences, can lead to women sorting out of male-dominated environments.
New (awesome) working paper!
"Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender,
Influence, and Group Dynamics" by
@ProfKarpo
,
@jrpjrpjrp
, &
@OlgaStoddard
.
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Job opportunity! 2 year post-doc at the Department of Political Science in Gothenburg. The post-doc is within Johannes Lindvall's project on political conflicts over public services.
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In our main analysis, we examine the causal impact of promotions to top political jobs in Sweden. Politics is unique in the sense that we can identify the job contenders, who gets the promotion, and how close the contest was. 3/10
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The paper uses three alternative estimation methods. However, these do not estimate the effect of the ban itself and have problematic properties that I would like to look into. While peer review is a good first hurdle, we also need to scrutinize research post-publication( 3/3)
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Det är vanligt att vita män tror att de missgynnas av sitt kön och etnicitet bara för att arbetsgivare säger att de vill anställa kvinnor och minoriteter. För att se om vita män "kvoteras bort" behöver man dock undersöka vad företag gör snarare än säger.
Jag har själv kvoterats bort flera gånger på grund av kön, helt öppet. Kollegor till mig också. En gång fick jag jobb på en ledarredaktion, men chefer över den politiska redaktören satte stopp. Behövdes en kvinna. Jag har klarat mig ändå, men hur många kvoteras bort mindre öppet?
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I just wrote a critical review of a book about gender ideology in Swedish Academia. In a response the authors argue that the results of my AER paper “Gender Quotas and The Crisis of the Mediocre Man” make me a dubious reviewer. Here is the paper!
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Very excited about this workshop, please submit papers!
📢 Call for papers. Submit your paper to the "Gender and Work" workshop that will take place in Barcelona, October 14 and 15, 2024. Confirmed keynotes:
@OlleFolke
and
@Paola_Profeta
. More here👇:
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Our new paper shows that political promotions have a large positive effect on women's divorce probability
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Det är ett stort missförstånd att män på botten av inkomstdistributionen fått det svårare att hitta en partner. Tvåförsörjarfamiljen har gjort det möjligt för män med lägre inkomster att bilda familj.
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My department (
@UU_PoliSci
) is hiring a senior lecturer (basically a tenured associate professor). Please apply and do not hesitate to reach out to me with questions about the department or the position.
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I would love to see this study done in academia, although the results would probably be quite depressing...
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This is a very important policy issue that we need to get right. I have a hard time figuring out how the paper can find an effect as there are no replication files, but I think it has something to do with using outcome data at the regional level and using a logged outcome (2/3)
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Very excited to join this workshop to learn about new exciting research in this important field, as well as to present our new work on combating sexual harassment in the Norwegian military with an intervention based on information nudges.
Honored to help co-organize this extraordinary two days of innovative, ambitious, and important research w/
@karsha
&
@AlessandraVoena
. We were floored by the many incredible submissions, and are so grateful to sponsors
@StanfordKingCtr
,
@USCMarshall
ODEI, and
@Arnold_Ventures
.
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The first graph in this tread showed the descriptive comparison of job-contenders for Mayor or Parliamentarian. This Figure shows D-i-D estimates. A host of robustness checks validate the design, including a restriction to quasi-random promotions in close elections. 4/10
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Huffington post covers our paper on the Sweden Democrats in which we show that we need to move beyond immigration to understand their growth
@johannarickne
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We have written a summary of our paper on the rise of the Radical Right in Sweden. In the paper we describe this phenomena, both from the supply side (politicians) and the demand side (voters) — with
@johannarickne
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Som tidigare doktorand i nationalekonomi på SU kan jag bekräfta att man under förstaårskurserna i makro får poäng för att citera Judith Butler istället för att lösa ekvationer
Pratade just med en kille som läser på Stockholms Universitet. Han noterade att alla kurser oavsett vad de skulle handla om mest fokuserade på identitetspolitik. Genusperspektiv och intersektionella analyser på precis allting. Om man ifrågasätter får man underkänt
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Very excited that
@wef
are highlighting mine and
@johannarickne
`s work on promotions and divorce!
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Such a great feeling that our paper on Radical Right politicians is now forthcoming in ReStud. See the thread for a summary of the paper!
Our paper about Radical Right politicians is now forthcoming in
@RevEconStudies
(with Ernesto Dal Bó,
@fsfinan
,
@ollefolke
, and Torsten Persson) 🎉🎉. 🎉🎉Who are these politicians?
Thread below and paper here:
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@JohnHolbein1
Do you find the method convincing? And as a sceptic of RDD studies you can hardly find Figure 4 convincing?
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Not at APSA this year, but Linna Martén is there presenting joint work with
@johannarickne
,
@MatzDahlberg
and me on geographic representation on Friday, 10:00 to 11:30am, Marriott, Hoover. Below I will summarize the key parts of this preliminary work 1/6
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So glad that the CEA have uncovered the true cost of living in a socialist nightmare!
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Superkul att en av våra mastersstudenter vunnit årets SOM-pris! Det är dessutom en väldigt bra och inressant uppsats!
Stort grattis Rebecca Eriksson,
@uppsalauni
, som vinner årets SOM-pris för sin superba uppsats Policy Feedback & Public Opinion. Hon använder LOV+Friskolereformen tillsammans m. longitudinella SOM-data för att studera koppling mellan policy och folkvilja:
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För de journalister som vill vet mer om personröstande så finns det ingen forskare i Sverige som kan i närheten av lika mycket som
@SaraVxo
, så hör av er till henne!
För den som är intresserad av "klanröstning" i personvalet rekommenderas
@SaraVxo
s avhandling om nätverks betydelse för personröster. Den visar att "klaner" som Rotary och frikyrkor är en nyckel för framgångsrika personvalskampanjer
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I år åker jag till Almedalsveckan med målet att diskutera min forskning med alla som kan vara intresserade. Hör av dig om du är intreserad, eller har behov av en paneldeltagare med expertis inom politisk representation, jämställdhetsfrågor eller SDs framgångar!
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Thanks for the opportunity to present our new work. Great feeback and a great visit in general!
Today we have at the
@FundacioIEB
@ubeconomics
seminar
@OlleFolke
presenting a very interesting paper on geographical political representation joint work with
@johannarickne
, Linna Martén & Matz Dahlberg!!!
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Anybody doing regression discontinuity designs in complex electoral settings (such a PR systems or seat Majorities) should take a careful look at the bootstrapping method of Kotakorpi, Poutvaara and Terviö when measuring the closeness of elections.
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@JohnHolbein1
@prof_mirya
US academia should adopt the Scandinavian model of social shaming for working weekends and not taking a 5 week vacation during the summer......
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Great to see that 2 of the 10 papers that made it to AEA journals research highlights of the years are written by Swedes (
@PerssonPetra
and
@arizo_karimi
) using Swedish data! Highly recommend their papers.
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I just came across the worst example of sample selection. This paper examines gender discrimination in Swedish academia, but exclude gender imbalanced fields with the motivation that these environments can be hostile to the minority...
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Ser fram emot att presentera och diskutera vår SNS-rapport om sexuella trakasserier och ojämlikhet på arbetsmarknaden.
Påverkar sexuella trakasserier i arbetslivet vilka jobb vi väljer? Och har det i förlängningen betydelse för inkomstskillnaderna mellan kvinnor och män?
Detta analyserar
@OlleFolke
och
@johannarickne
i en ny SNS-rapport som lanseras den 13/3.
Läs mer:
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It is hard to deny the gendered component of "take downs", both in terms of who is targeted and how it is done
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How can studies showing gender differences in behaviors among toddlers, like this one , be seen as solid evidence for biological foundations of labor market differences? These studies have small samples, lack pre registration and — most importantly —...
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@RationalMale
@johannarickne
The study is based on register data, not a survey. There is no information on divorce initiation. Also, there is a general problem with defining initiation. For example, if one partner cheats and the other files for divorce, who has initiated the divorce?
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Now we finally have the answer, the only reason behind the relatively high gender equality in the nordic countries is the Viking heritage! Also some impressively selective citations of gender quota studies!
NEW STUDY: Gender quotas have been ineffective and several aspects of Nordic social policies have negatively affected women’s career progress and even contributed to a glass ceiling.
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In a new working paper,
@johannarickne
, Peter Buisseret,
@carlopratophd
, and I propose a formal model of parties’ optimal ballot organization in PR systems, which we then test using detailed candidate data from Sweden. 1/8
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En tråkig sak med samtiden är att recepten tappt minst 40 IQ-poäng de senaste 5 decennierna.
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This is really bizzare, but sadly not surprising.
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Great research (forthcoming in the Journal of Politics) on gender differences in exposure to violence among Swedish municipal politicians.
@SandraHkansson4
is one of many great PhD students in our program, applications are open if you want to join her!
Do women pay a higher price for power? Here is a thread (now in English) based on my forthcoming paper about psychological and physical violence against politicians, demonstrating that women higher in the political hierarchy experience more violence than other politicians.
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Is this what they mean with research results being monetized? Our research results are used for marketing by divorce lawyers!
Being Promoted May Double Women’s Odds of Getting Divorced
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All the stories shared under
#BlackintheIvory
show the taxing harassment faced by ethnic minorities in academia. Listening to these stories is depressing, but also crucial for me as a bystander to learn about the various forms of racially based harassment in academia.
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One of the best parts of visiting Yale last year was getting to know
@yoko_okuyama
In this thread she describes her great Job Market paper on the impact of the US radio program “women’s hour” that was meant to improve gender equality. (continued)
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I am puzzled by the persistent idea that couple formation is all about women's mate preferences, while we men passively have to accept those choices..... These results might as well say that women at the top face a different marriage market.
Top income women in Sweden show mate preferences that are rather different from those of their male peers.
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We have written a blog post on our paper about "Gender quotas and the crisis of the mediocre man"
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I find it rather puzzling when academics think it is fine with government bans on certain research fields as long as it is a field that they do not like. If the gender studies departments are dysfunctional it should be dealt with by the university, not the state.
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Our paper on gender and dynasties in which we among other things do an in depth analysis of dynastic ties in Swedish municipalities.
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So excited to be a part of the new Daedalus issue on gender equality! Read our article and the other contributions here!
In a new article with
@OlleFolke
,
@yasuka_tateishi
, and
@seikitanaka
, we analyze sexual harassment in the workplace against women with leadership positions. We survey women with and without leadership positions in three countries: The United States, Japan, and Sweden. Thread 1/9
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Jordan B Peterson on gender quotas in politics:
"you decrease the quality of your candidates. And that can be devastating, like, really devastating." the only problem is that this does not have any support in any existing research...
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@rodrigo_ecoufba
@johannarickne
Yes!
@RFisman
wrote this very nice piece in Slate linking the two papers to his earlier research
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We are very excited to organize this workshop on workplace sexual harassment! Please submit your paper.
🚨 Call for Papers🚨 We are organizing a cross-disciplinary research workshop on workplace sexual harassment in June 2023 in Stockholm. Our keynote speaker is Vicki Magley! Please submit your paper and tell others to do the same.
@OlleFolke
@SOFI_su_se
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Att försöka med tredje uppgiften är minst sagt en utmaning ibland. Stämmer den inte resultaten överens med ledarskribenters förutfattade meningar är den antingen ett skämt eller ideologisk.... För att forskning ska vara objektiv måste nog den visa rätt resultat....
@arvidahlund
@johannarickne
@OlleFolke
@MESandbu
Jag har snabbläst rapporten och Sandbu har jag såklart läst. Det är ett så uppenbart politiskt budskap, en analys som bortser från viktiga samband (svensk homogentitet / Jimmie Åkessons retoriska förmåga att ta vara på "sverigevänner" etc). Att peka på Reinfeldt 1 ett skämt
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We're planning to use this graph scheme for all our future papers!
My sCatterplot for the impact of promotion to Mayor or Parliamentarian on women’s probability to stay married
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