Janina Steinert
@jisteinert.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Technical University of Munich | DPhil University of Oxford | Research: Health, Development, Violence | more: https://sites.google.com/view/janina-i-steinert
#SocialSafetyNet interventions fight #poverty. But they also 💫 empower #women. A new study with participation of HfP Professor @jisteinert.bsky.social, based on data from over 200,000 women, finds that: Especially, unconditional 💵 cash transfers can advance #GenderEquality. 🌈 @tum.de @nature.com
👉I was surprised to learn that birth order is a more important determinant for early-life development in Central Asia. If you work on health economics, I recommend to check this work by @jisteinert.bsky.social, Cara Ebert and Manzura Jumaniyazova: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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How can policy address #intimatepartnerviolence and why do we need better data? 💡 Join us 16 Oct, 18:00 at @hertieschool.bsky.social for a discussion with @jisteinert.bsky.social, Miriam Schroer-Hippel, Christina Boll and more! Details & registration ⬇️ 🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
Intimate partner violence: Data challenges and policy solutions
<p>Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread issue with serious and far-reaching consequences for individuals and societies. Beyond physical violence, IPV involves patterns of psychological viol...
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📣Join us for this year's Early Career Workshop and Fall Meeting on Health Economics and Development Cooperation at @tum.de, hosted by @nsud.bsky.social and myself! Please submit your paper abstracts by July 14 - more information below ⬇️
New 📝 "Empowerment Paradox? The Long-Run Impact of a Cycling Program for Girls in Zambia"👀 ✍️ @garciahdezana.bsky.social Nishith Prakash, Janina Isabel Steinert How a program empowered women & reduced violence, but paradoxically coincided with early marriage & pregnancy: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
I am looking forward to tomorrow's 3D seminar that promises an engaging dialogue on how to protect women from violence in challenging conditions.
3D Seminar@3dseminar.bsky.social · last yr.Our next seminar will be held on May 22nd, at 3pm (UTC+2). Ghassan Baliki (ISDC) and Sahar El Hachem (FCDO) will discuss strategies for reducing and preventing violence against women in Syria. Register at: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...
Continued routine childhood vaccination at high coverage is needed to prevent resurgence of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their infection-related complications in the US. ja.ma/3YeEcVv #MedSky
@jisteinert.bsky.social, Andreas Landmann, and I are organizing a Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics in July! Goal is to strengthen the regional network among PhD students in Bavaria who work on DevEcon. Please spread the word and apply/drop by! :) Deadline May 4. tinyurl.com/zzem65nx
CfP_BavarianDevEcon_PhDWorkshop_2025.pdf
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New paper out with the brilliant @sangeet.bsky.social: "Economic Abuse in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review" 👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248380251325194
The NIH is cancelling dozens of grants involving vaccines, including a project that studied whether the COVID vax is safe for breastfeeding mothers. mRNA vaccine research is next on the chopping block. Story @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Some history and philosophy of science about into why this matters- traditionally medical and biological research has studied male animals much more than females. To this day there is still a skew 1 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
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New paper co-authored with Dr. Cara Ebert @rwi.bsky.social: What was the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violence against women in Germany? We analyse longitudinal data on help requests to helplines & shelters + survey data from the first pandemic wave www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Violence against women and the substitution of help services in times of lockdown: Triangulation of three data sources in Germany
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws on three data sources: (1) long…
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Folgen der Suspendierung von USAID: "Wir sprechen darüber, eine zweite Welle einer globalen HIV-Epidemie auszulösen, die weitgehend unter Kontrolle gebracht wurde." www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
USAid: Die Zerstörung hat schon begonnen
Ob Projekte gegen HIV, Malaria oder vernachlässigte Tropenkrankheiten: Die USA streichen ihre medizinische Entwicklungshilfe. Die Folgen sind schon jetzt dramatisch.
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Very important work on #ethics in #fieldresearch. We have to establish adequate structures and standards to ensure #equity and #safety in international research, and, importantly, we need funders to allow for, even demand these structures. #EconSky #GlobalHealth
Janina Steinert@jisteinert.bsky.social · 2y agoOut today in World Development Perspectives: Our paper on #ethics & #equity failures faced by research staff collecting data in LMIC contexts 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
Out today in World Development Perspectives: Our paper on #ethics & #equity failures faced by research staff collecting data in LMIC contexts 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
Ethics and Equity: Addressing Violations of the Belmont Report principles for research staff
Particularly in development research, data is often collected in settings characterised by high deprivation, risk and power asymmetries, which aggrava…
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Thrilled that our report "CONTENT WARNING: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression", launched today, has received a very warm reception by the media! 📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02... More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇
Gewalt im Internet: Umfrage: Mehrheit wünscht sich Kontrolle in sozialen Medien
Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Gewalt im Internet“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Umfrage: Mehrheit wünscht sich Kontrolle in sozialen Medien“.
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An estimated 300,000 people standing up for democracy in Munich today ❤️❤️❤️
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper documents discrimination in the formation of professional networks among academic economists. Specifically, we created 80 human-like bot accounts that claim to be Ph...
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Digitale Gewalt treibt demokratische Stimmen aus den Parlamenten. @yvonnemagwas.bsky.social ist kein Einzelfall. Wir müssen verhindern, dass nicht nur die übrig bleiben, die Hetze verbreiten. Denn Hass darf nicht regieren. Das sind unsere Forderungen: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p...
Yesterday I had the great honour of presenting our report on #DigitalViolence against politically active people in Germany at a Federal Press Conference in Berlin with our partner organisation @hateaid.org - with support from @bidt.bsky.social
Jede 2. politisch engagierte Person hat schon Anfeindungen im Internet erlebt. Das zeigt die neue Studie der TUM in Kooperation mit HateAid. Die Folge: Digitale Gewalt gefährdet das politische Engagement in Deutschland. Unsere Forderungen: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p... #AngegriffenUndAlleingelassen
#AngegriffenUndAlleingelassen: Wer sich für unsere Gesellschaft einsetzt, ist häufig von Anfeindungen im Netz betroffen. Politisch Engagierte brauchen mehr Schutz. Das zeigt die neue Studie der TU München mit HateAid: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p...
New pre-print! We show evidence that online misogyny can have a deterrence on female political candidate. w/ Luise Koch, Raji Ghawi, @jisteinert.bsky.social Thanks to @bidt.bsky.social for funding this project. arxiv.org/abs/2403.07523
📢Question for #EconSky & others: Has anyone ever programmed an implicit association test for touchscreen only? Most IATs I have seen require keyboards to measure reaction time. However, planning to implement this in rural India where we collect data on mobile tablets and won't have keyboards...
Historisches Urteil für alle Betroffenen: OLG bestätigt, dass Meta massenhafte Falschzitate selbst finden und löschen muss. Ein wichtiges Zeichen gegen systematische Desinformation. Mehr zu unserem Erfolg im Grundsatzprozess mit Renate Kuenast: hateaid.org/historisches...
