VoxDev invited us to write about our work on how inequality affects the hierarchy of needs. Not every paper gets the chance to reach people who can actually use it, so we're really glad this one will!

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🆕 Inequality redefines basic needs, undermining nutrition and poverty goals Today on VoxDev, Clément S. Bellet (Erasmus School of Economics) & Eve Colson-Sihra (Hebrew University) discuss how inequality pushes poor households to sacrifice nutrition in India: https://ow.ly/ZiEb50XvEsU

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐝𝐬: 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭? Advertising is a billion-dollar industry. But do ads truly represent consumers, or just biased stereotypes about them? Our new study of 2.1M U.S. TV ads presents a new method to measure presence and stereotyping in ad content @clement-s-bellet.bsky.social

People are willing to forgo 15-30% of their wage to avoid hostile work environments. Women report a stronger distaste for exclusive workplaces and environments with sexual harassment and value hybrid work twice as much in the presence of sexual harassment. Collis & @clemvaneff.bsky.social

@clement-s-bellet.bsky.social we're cooked... ...but meanwhile we keep working on allegedly very controversial research! We are writing an exciting paper on gender representation ✨using tons of prohibited words✨. Important now more than ever. Feel free to give it a read, when you feel rebellious.

Darby Saxbe@darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

New paper with amazing Eve Coslon-Sihra, "Does Inequality Affect the Needs of the Poor?" now published in the JEEA! We show inequality redefines needs at the bottom of the pyramid, deepening the calorie consumption puzzle and worsening malnutrition. A thread below ⬇️

@jeeanews.bsky.social · 2y ago

Forthcoming article by @clement-s-bellet.bsky.social and Eve Colson-Sihra "Does Inequality Affect the Needs of the Poor? @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...