Lena Gempke

📌 “Austerity shrinks the state and stretches the household, until the latter hangs by a single thread: a line of credit”

📚 In this blog, @lenagempke.bsky.social unpacks how austerity and financialisation push South African women into debt to fund everyday life.

read the blog 🔗 tinyurl.com/4sfwjsc5

2. Credit is deeply racialised: Racial dynamics intensify gendered patterns. Black South Africans are overrepresented in unsecured, budget-stretching debt; white South Africans hold more asset-backed, wealth-generating credit.

1. Credit is highly gendered: Women, across racial groups, hold disproportionately more credit linked to care and homemaking (store cards, furniture loans), while men are more likely to hold asset-backed credit tied to wealth-building and unspecified unsecured debt

Super excited to have presented my first-ever poster at the YSI Poster Session @iaffe.bsky.social! Short tldr of (preliminary!) findings is in the comments.

Any feedback/ideas/comments? Hit me up!!

Most insightful (&fun!) conference of my first year doing this just dropped its call for papers. Send in your hot new SRT works!

🚨 Deadline approaching 🚨

PhD students in Econ and related fields, please submit your extended abstracts for our PhD conference *by 31st Jan*!

We pay for your travel, accommodation and food, and we always have great speakers and lots of fun!

More info and submission form below.

#EconSky
#EconPhD

Abstract for Paper "Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions: A Practitioner’s Guide and a Stata Package"

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨

w/ @essobecker.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social

Do you run regressions on spatial data? Then keep reading!

We present a guide and Stata package for methods by Müller and Watson (2024) to deal with Spatial Unit Roots in Regressions.

Link in🧵(1/n)

I got asked on the other site (which I'm boycotting) for literature recommendations discussing the interaction between antitrust & (cyber)security.

I think there's so much scholarship still to be written here! Not least because there seems to be a perception of a trade-off between the two. 🧵

@womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social @iaffe.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

Interesting opportunity to learn more about quant methods in feminist economics @ineteconomics.bsky.social ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/making...

@ineteconomics.bsky.social @sarastevano.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social

Making feminist economics count - Workshop @ SOAS (13th & 14th of Feb)

Come join us for a two day workshop dedicated to learning & advancing quantitative methods in feminist economics.

Limited spaces. Apply! ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/making...

YouTube video by widersetzen Nie wieder ist auch jetzt! - 11.01 AfD Parteitag in Riesa verhindern

youtu.be/Or9yYbGQS6I

feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add

Symposium — “Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction” - Antipode Online Organised by Vincent Guermond (Queen Mary University of London), Katherine Brickell (King’s College London) and Nithya Natarajan (King’s College London) Social reproduction is about how we live, how l...

Out now — "Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction" — a six-article symposium organised by @vincentguermond.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social @nithyaaa.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2024/12/11/d...

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