Showing posts with label gender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender. Show all posts
Sunday, May 19, 2024

IVF for sex selection: legal in the U.S

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Slate has the story: The Parents Who Want Daughters—and Daughters Only. Sex selection with IVF is banned in much of the world. Not in the U....
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Monday, October 9, 2023

Claudia Goldin wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

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 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 was awarded  today to the indefatigable Claudia Goldin &quo...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Scientific honors and gender gaps

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 Changing from an old equilibrium to a new one can involve some actions that may not persist once a new equilibrium is reached.  Here's ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

What is needed to gain support for effective algorithms in hiring, etc?

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 Here's an experiment motivated in part by European regulations on transparency of algorithms. Aversion to Hiring Algorithms: Transparen...
Thursday, July 21, 2022

Gender neutral words in gendered languages

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Novel pronouns haven't been widely adopted in English, but committees now have chairs or chairpersons, and there are some attempts not m...
Friday, May 13, 2022

The No Club, by Babcock, Peyser, Vesterlund and Weingart

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  I had the pleasure of hearing Lisa Vesterlund talk about her new book, The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work , by Linda Ba...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Muriel Niederle wins the Austrian Käthe-Leichter-Preis for "outstanding achievements in the field of social, human and cultural sciences"

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  Here's the announcement (with help from Google Translate): Lifetime Achievement Prize goes to Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger (WU), Käthe-Leic...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Working remotely may lessen income inequality between men and women: Claudia Goldin in the WSJ

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 Here's Claudia Goldin in the WSJ, on how income inequality between men and women may be lessened by the growth of remote work. (She arg...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Muriel Niederle receiving the Morgenstern Medal: intro and speech (video)

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Here's the video of Muriel Niederle receiving her   2021 Oskar Morgenstern Medal . Starting at minute 25:45 you can hear Jean Robert Tyr...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Repugnance watch: Gender-affirming medical care for transgender adolescents becomes a crime in Arkansas

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 Here's a recent article in repugnance to certain kinds of medical care involving transgender children as they approach puberty: Increas...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

New legislation expressing repugnance to gender transition

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  Trans people are facing new obstacles from state legislatures, concerning sports teams, healthcare, and toilets.  Here's a story from ...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Economics at the extremes (of gender and salary): UC Berkeley report

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  This report includes two figures in which the discipline of Economics is near one of the extremes.  The regression models on gender and sa...
Saturday, May 2, 2020

Test design and gender gaps in performance--evidence from a national exam in Chile, by Coffman and Klinowski

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Here's a recent paper from PNAS: The impact of penalties for wrong answers on the gender gap in test scores Katherine B. Coffman and...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

U.S medical school enrollments by sex: women outnumber men for the first time

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There are now more women than men applying to U.S. medical schools, being accepted (to the first year class) and enrolled (in all four year...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Repugnant blood samples (for gender testing in pregnancy) in China

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The South China Morning Post has the story: blood samples for gender tests apparently are a leading indicator of abortion of female fetuses...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Congratulations to Claudia Goldin: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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Here are the first two paragraphs of the announcement... The BBVA Foundation recognizes Claudia Goldin for pioneering economic analysis o...
Monday, January 2, 2017

Repugnance watch: Gender identity. 8-year-old transgender boy barred from Cub Scouts in NJ and NYC issues an "intersex" birth certificate,

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Two (otherwise unrelated) recent news stories suggest that social attitudes towards gender identity may be tested in the new year in ways t...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Claudia Goldin interview on the history of labor force participation by women, among other things

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The interview is in Econ Focus, published by the Richmond Fed: Claudia Goldin Here's one paragraph: " EF: What changed in so...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Conference today on Economic Incentives for Gender Parity

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I'll be a guest today at a conference that SIEPR is hosting for the Forum of Young Global Leaders , Economic Incentives for Gender Pari...