Yesterday, it was Women’s Day
Today, you can read our paper on parenthood and women’s under-representation in academia
Parenthood leads to women leaving academia - not just career slowdown
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Joint work with @cairosofie.bsky.social, @riaivandic.bsky.social and @valentinatartari.bsky.social
Parenthood and the Career Ladder: Evidence from Academia by Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandić, Anne Sophie Lassen, and Valentina Tartari
Focus and Research Question The study examines how becoming a parent affects academic careers and whether it contributes to gender gaps at senior levels. It asks whether motherhood and fatherhood have different effects on staying in academia and reaching tenure (a permanent senior position).
Data and Methodology The researchers use population-wide Danish administrative data linked to publication records, promotions, and family information. They apply an event-study design, comparing men and women before and after the birth of their first child to isolate the impact of parenthood.
Key Findings I – Careers diverge after the first child Before parenthood, men and women follow similar career paths. After the first child, one in three women leave academia, while men’s academic employment declines only slightly.
👶📚 Does #parenthood affect academic careers equally?
A new study shows that after the first child, many mothers leave #academia and are less likely to reach tenure (a permanent professorship) – while fathers’ careers remain largely unchanged.
berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...
More paternity leave leads to more progressive views and smaller gender gaps. Exciting research 👇🏻
What do we learn now that the pandemic is (luckily) over? Exposure is an important concept for understanding DA:
* Proximity matters: who lives with whom & how often they interact
* Housing density influences reporting
* The presence of witnesses affects whether abuse is detected and reported
On the reporting side: we found that calls for DA increased, but almost all of that increase came from third-party callers (i.e., neighbours, bystanders), not from victims themselves. This effect was stronger in high-density areas - where neighbours are more likely to overhear abuse.
Key empirical findings:
* Abuse by current partners ⬆️ ~8.5%
* Abuse by family members ⬆️ ~16.4%.
* Abuse by ex-partners ⬇️ ~9.4%.
➡️ A change in composition: more abuse in relationships marked by physical proximity (current partners, family), less in relationships defined by separation (exes).
During the first UK COVID-19 lockdown, social distancing had many unintended side-effects. One of the darker ones: a shift in domestic abuse (DA) patterns. In a paper just published in Economica, we dig into how exposure plays a crucial role. Link to study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New Policy Brief! Domestic abuse: improving risk assessment
and response by the police?
Evidence and recommendations from Tom Kirchmaier, @drekaterinaoparina.bsky.social, Jeffrey Grogger, and @riaivandic.bsky.social
Written by
@aadyabahl.bsky.social
Read more at:
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...
📚 📣 Are you in the Stockholm area on September 22nd? Come discuss new research about gender gaps in academia at Stockholm University! Email me to sign up. Program below!
Nice to see our research reported on in the Guardian. Full link to the 2021 paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check out my co-author's @ansolassen.bsky.social presentation of our research at the NBER spring meeting today - www.nber.org/conferences/...
Faculty of Economics in Zagreb is hosting the Summer School Quantitative Economic History in July, for graduate students interested in econ history. Learn from experts in econ history, and mix it with a holiday in Croatia over summer ☀️🌊, with costs covered. Details below:
NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
Our joint paper relates to the previous work by @ansolassen.bsky.social and me in AEA P&P on economists (www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...) and the work by @cairosofie.bsky.social and @valentinatartari.bsky.social on research productivity. Full working paper coming soon🚨
We show that scientists in wet fields, that have less flexibility in timing and location of work, suffer much larger penalties than dry fields. Women scientists in traditional couples (measured by the take up of parental leave) experience a larger penalty too.
The childbirth also leads to a drop in research output, measured by annual publications. It explains about 1/3 of the penalty on tenured employment, but the majority of the tenure gap cannot be explained by a drop in research output.
The motherhood penalty is especially stark when it comes to the likelihood of getting tenured. Men’s tenured employment remains unaffected by the arrival of a child, while women face a 20 pp drop. The effects of the motherhood penalty persist long after childbirth, even 8 years later.
We use Danish administrative data and follow individuals from the start of their PhDs. Before having children, men and women in academia follow similar career paths. But following parenthood, we find that mothers are 15 pp less likely than fathers to remain employed as faculty at universities.
A large gender gap persists in STEM disciplines across the world that is bad for innovation, talent attraction & against fairness principles. On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @ansolassen.bsky.social @cairosofie.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social are sharing our findings ⬇️
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Holy forking shirt balls
"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
Sharing my TEDx talk on intimate partner violence against women.
youtu.be/OtNZtU3utlI?...
🚨 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
It has huge negative impacts on the women. Bindler & Ketel (2022) find that reported IPV➡️ 18% ⬇️ in earnings & ⬆️ welfare benefits by 42%. Adams et al (2024) find that they experience immediate economic costs of partnering up with an abusive man, even if they do not report physical abuse themselves.
Most of it remains unreported. Of the women who have experienced physical violence or threats and/or sexual violence in their lifetime, only 20.5 % have contacted a healthcare service or social service provider as a result of the incident, and 13.9 % have reported the incident to the police.
Report from @eu-eurostat.extwitter.link released today: One in every 3 women (31.8%) in Europe has experienced physical violence or threats, sexual violence and/or psychological violence (IPV) over the course of their lives by an intimate partner. 1 out of 3!
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It's a topic that I think is really important and is my main research agenda. I even got to give a TEDx talk last week on it. Some key facts: ⤵️
Thanks for doing this. Can I be added please?
📜 Just published in the Journal of Public Economics 📜
"Specialised courts and the reporting of intimate partner violence: Evidence from Spain"
I am lucky to have worked with @martammatute.bsky.social and @jorgeghombrados in this paper and thankful for all I learned from them. Thread below!
Evermore today, it's important to understand how global events lead to a contagion of hate far away from the event's occurrence and how exogenous shocks can change how residents perceive local minority groups as an out-group threat.
Link to paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
