💥New | The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities ✍️ @cairosofie.bsky.social @riaivandic.bsky.social @ansolassen.bsky.social & @valentinatartari.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Childcare #Motherhood (@cep-lse.bsky.social)

The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact

Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...

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Latest in academia 📚 In “Parenthood and the Career Ladder: Evidence from Academia,” the authors examine how parenthood shapes academic careers. Their key finding: parenthood marks a sharp turning point with around 1 in 3 women leaving academia. #womenineconomics #academia #genderequality

Really very happy to see our paper covered in Nature Magazine Full paper here cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...

Nature@nature.com · 6mo ago

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output, finds a large analysis of academics in Denmark. go.nature.com/4tcO2Em

Next week, @riaivandic.bsky.social will present our paper at the WE_ARE @cepr.org seminar series More info and register here 👉 cepr.org/events/event...

Centre for Economic Performance@cep-lse.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Parenthood and the career ladder: evidence from academia By Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina Tartari Read at: https://ow.ly/AwgK50YuQNy

Parenthood and the career ladder: evidence from academia By Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina Tartari Read at: https://ow.ly/AwgK50YuQNy

Only one in four professors is a woman. We show that motherhood is a key driver of the leaky pipeline, particularly at early career stages. More details in the summary and working paper below👇 Sign up to hear my presentation of the research in the CEPR Applied Economics Seminar on 23 March.

Berlin School of Economics@bsoeberlin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

💼 Parenthood can be a turning point in #academic careers. 💡 A new INSIGHTS piece revisits the study on parenthood and the academic career ladder and what it reveals about motherhood, fatherhood, and career paths in academia and beyond. berlinschoolofeconomics.de/insight/pare... #genderinequality

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 👇👇👇 Joint work with @cairosofie.bsky.social, @riaivandic.bsky.social and @valentinatartari.bsky.social

Berlin School of Economics@bsoeberlin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

👶📚 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...

👶📚 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 👇🏻

Anne Sophie Lassen@ansolassen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Can family policies shift gendered beliefs, social norms, and ultimately gender gaps in the labor market? Yes! Read our new WP for all the details

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/...

Domestic violence screening tool should be replaced, Jess Phillips says

Safeguarding minister says tool used to decide which domestic abuse victims get support doesn’t work

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Check out my co-author's @ansolassen.bsky.social presentation of our research at the NBER spring meeting today - www.nber.org/conferences/...

Investments in Early Career Scientists, Spring 2025

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Anne Sophie Lassen@ansolassen.bsky.social · last yr.

🚉 —> NBER Spring Meeting on Investments in Early Career Scientists Looking forward to see some cool projects (www.nber.org/conferences/...) and get feedback on our project ‘Parenthood and the Academic Ladder’ (with @cairosofie.bsky.social @riaivandic.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social)

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...

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/...

The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children*

Abstract. This paper examines the impact of denying a wanted abortion on women and children in Colombia using high-quality administrative microdata and cre

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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. "

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 2y ago

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/...

Sharing my TEDx talk on intimate partner violence against women. youtu.be/OtNZtU3utlI?...

The Future of Our Daughters | Ria Ivandić | TEDxZagreb

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🚨 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

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: ⤵️

📜 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!

Specialised courts and the reporting of intimate partner violence: Evidence from Spain

This paper assesses the effect of the creation of specialised intimate partner violence (IPV) courts on the reporting of IPV, and the incidence of IPV…

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🚨How do international events shape local hate crime against minorities? 🚨 We study the effects of international terror attacks on out-group hate crimes against Muslims using detailed data in Greater Manchester over 10 years. With Tom Kirchmaier & Steve Machin in the Journal of Law & Economics. ⤵️

What happens to women in economics after having a child? They are are more likely to leave research jobs and less likely to get tenure in the first 5 years after childbirth. Summary of our paper is in @cep-lse.bsky.social Centrepiece and more details in AEA P&P @aeajournals.bsky.social

Centre for Economic Performance@cep-lse.bsky.social · 2y ago

In the broader research sector women are more likely to leave research careers after childbirth than before, while fathers move into these positions. Ria Ivandic @AnSoLassen.bksy.social CentrePiece magazine cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...

💥New: What makes the child penalty in academia different? ✍️Ria Ivandic & @ansolassen.bsky.social #AcademicSky #HigherEd wp.me/p4m9em-diB

What makes the child penalty in academia different?

Women are underrepresented in senior academic positions in economics. Ria Ivandić and Anne Sophie Lassen assess the impact of having children on men and women’s career trajectories and suggest how …

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