Anders Kjelsrud

Important paper from @anderskjelsrud.bsky.social and Sahar!

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.

When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.

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Kult, Askill! Gratulerer.

Update: We submitted the comment to the Journal of Population Economics, and today we got a desk reject with this motivation. However, we do not know their conclusion about the main results and why the paper was not retracted. Clearly, they do not hold. 1/4

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

🚨 New #EconHistory research alert!
Our paper “Strikes & Machines: Investment decisions in inter‑war Norway” conditionally accepted in Journal of Economic History ask
"What did strike threats really do to technology?"
👇 1/6

#GDRI_rep Update 6: Some of the authors have responded to our report on "Raising Health Awareness in Rural Communities" @ The Review of Economics and Statistics. Authors received our report Feb 6. A short 🧵

This gem is hidden in the response to the response. ”…within a few hours and under extreme time pressure 11,843 households were visited and 22,686 respondents interviewed (two spouses in each household).” Indeed hard to believe 🫠

In a new @i4replication.bsky.social report we replicate Islam (2019). Main issue: the randomized controlled trial was not randomized. And many other things on top of that. See full report for details. (w/ @carlbonander.bsky.social, @nikljako.bsky.social, @flxhlzmstr.bsky.social, Bensch & Brodeur)

#GDRI_rep Update 4: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" by Islam @ European Economic Review. See below for links to report and author's response.

#GDRI_rep Update 2: I4R sent a report to the original authors for the PLOS One article "“Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country". All authors have now emailed PLOS One to withdraw their names. osf.io/7tzek/

#GDRI_rep Update 1: I4R are now reproducing all published papers that use data from GDRI, or are closely related in other ways. Here is a first update on our work. 🧵

Handlingsregelen må ikke stå i veien for en kraftig økning av Norges støtte til Ukraina Ved å gi Ukraina det landet trenger, gjør vi nettopp det handlingsregelen var ment å gjøre.

Opprop! Vi er 47 samfunnsøkonomer som tar til orde for en kraftig økning av Norges støtte til Ukraina.

www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

There is still time to submit one of your papers to NCDE!

2nd report reproduces “Raising Health Awareness in Rural Communities: A Randomized Experiment in Bangladesh and India'' by Siddique et al. Review of Economics and Statistics. Authors received our report Feb 6. See same statements from some of the authors and full report here: osf.io/c3k6f/

👏 Good news for researchers working with Swedish register data and who want their research to be reproducible 👉 If you include in your ethics application/research plan that replication may be part of the project, then external replicators (e.g. data editors) can be given access to the data!

Abel: I am writing in my capacity as Chair of I4R. Last year, I was contacted by a researcher that alerted me of potential scientific misconduct in a set of papers all using data from a specific NGO.🧵

Reminder to send your papers to the Nordic Conference in Development Econ. Oslo is beautiful in summertime, we will swim in the fjord! (and talk research of course) #econsky

Actually, Sahar presented some of your results during our Annual Lecture on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. And the video is available online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ44...

And by the way, you have super interesting results!

Thanks! strange, it works on my Chrome. You can also find the paper here: sites.google.com/site/andersk...

Come to Oslo for the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics! June 17–18, 2025.

Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo).

No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.

Link below:

Nordic Conference in Development Economics - NCDE 2025 Welcome to the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics.

📢 Call for papers 📢

Submit your paper to the Nordic Conference in Development Economics

Where and when: Oslo, June 17-18

Submission deadline: Feb 28

Keynotes: Eliana la Ferrara and Kalle Moene

www.oslomet.no/en/about/eve...

Jepp, det kan kanskje virke sånn.

Thank you! And thanks for sharing- I will definitely take a look.

Want more? Read the full paper here:
github.com/parsahar/par...

How does it all matter?

Our findings underscore the importance of same-gender mentorship in male-dominated fields like Econ. A counterfactual exercise suggests that hiring one extra female prof at each of the top-50 schools would close 1/3 of the gender gap among ass profs at the top-25 schools.

To support this interpretation, we – among other things – provide evidence of gender homophily in advisor-advisee relationships. Even controlling for department-year-field fixed effects, we find that female students are 50% more likely to have a female advisor compared to male students.

What explains these results?

We argue that the effects are connected to gender homophily in professional and social networks. The absence of female mentors hinders the development and placement of female students, while indirectly benefiting male students (perhaps through reduced competition).

Still, placements are not of equal “quality". Females are missing from the top-ranked institutions, while males fill lower ranked positions.

3. For male students, we find what looks like a zero-sum game: affected males publish more and are more likely to stay in academia.