Max-Emil King

📝 Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
📂 Meeting hours dataset: www.maxemilking.com/data
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Late working hours are often seen as a barrier to gender equity in politics and beyond🧱.

My findings need not imply that family-friendly scheduling is bad policy, but if early meetings backfire for working-class politicians, that trade-off needs to be part of the conversation. 9/10

Early sessions, however, increase absences among politicians with inflexible private-sector day jobs by 6 percentage points (~27% relative to their mean).

These jobs are typically in the low-skilled/service sector. 8/10

Results: Neither women in general (Panel A), nor women with children (Panel B), are more likely to attend meetings held at family-friendly hours.

I discuss possible reasons for this null result in the paper.🤔7/10

Importantly, this timing variation is conditionally balanced with respect to the topics discussed (black circles in the figure), suggesting it is unrelated to individual preferences for attending. 6/10

I exploit within-council variation in session timing – such as in Sør-Aurdal municipality – to assess who is less likely to be absent when meetings are held early (~11am 🌞) vs. late (~5pm 🌙). 5/10

Norway provides a compelling setting: recent years have seen growing debate over council meeting times, especially calls for more daytime sessions. 4/10

I study a 25% random sample of Norwegian municipalities, hand-coding individual-level attendance for all 2,620 politicians across 3,334 local council meetings (2015–2019).

Attendance is generally high, but each session sees 10–15% absence due to illness, childcare, urgent work, etc. 3/10

Instead, holding meetings at earlier, more family-friendly times reduces participation among politicians with inflexible, often low-skilled day jobs⚠️.

This challenges the idea that scheduling reforms are a silver bullet for inclusion. 2/10

Do family-friendly hours make it easier for women politicians to participate in meetings? 🕚

In a new working paper, I find they don’t. 🧵1/10

📝 Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
📂 Meeting hours dataset: www.maxemilking.com/data
10/10

Late working hours are often seen as a barrier to gender equity in politics and beyond.🕔

My findings need not imply that family-friendly scheduling is bad policy, but if early meetings backfire for working-class politicians, that trade-off needs to be part of the conversation. 9/10

Instead, politicians with inflexible private-sector day jobs are negatively affected by early meetings: their absence increases by 6 percentage points (~27% relative to their mean).

These jobs are typically in the low-skilled/service sector. 8/10

Results: Neither women in general (Panel A), nor women with children (Panel B), are more likely to attend meetings held at family-friendly hours.

I discuss possible reasons for this null result in the paper. 7/10

Importantly, this variation is conditionally balanced with respect to the topics discussed in the meetings (see black circles in the figure), suggesting it is unrelated to individual preferences for attending. 6/10

I exploit within-council variation in session timing – such as in Sør-Aurdal municipality – to assess who are less likely to be absent when meetings are held early (~11am 🌞) vs. late (~5pm 🌙). 5/10

Norway provides a compelling setting: in recent years, local media have featured growing debate around council meeting times, especially calls for more daytime sessions. 4/10

I study a 25% random sample of Norwegian municipalities, hand-coding individual-level attendance for all 2,620 politicians across 3,334 local council meetings (2015 – 2019).

Attendance is generally high, but each session sees 10–15% absence due to illness, childcare, urgent work, or similar. 3/10

Instead, holding meetings at earlier, more family-friendly hours reduces participation among politicians with inflexible daytime commitments.

This challenges the idea that scheduling reforms are a silver bullet for inclusion. 2/10

Sykelønn: For viktig til å ties i hjel Fredningen av sykelønnsordningen har vart i snart tre tiår. Dyrevelferd og bompenger nevnes i tre ganger så mange taler i Stortinget som sykelønn.

Sykelønn: for viktig til å ties ihjel

www.dn.no/innlegg/syke...

Nice.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

10/ Please help share our extended replication to correct the record on this misleading policy evaluation!

Full replication text here: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

PhD in Economics (279627) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: PhD in Economics (279627), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 25, 2025

We have another PhD position open at NTNU-Economics. Details in link below - particularly interesting for those who want to work at the intersection of behavioural and environmental economics.

Main supervisor @agneman.bsky.social

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

My NSF was officially terminated “Beyond the Myth: Political Geography, Electoral Institutions, and the Evolution of Women’s Voting Patterns in Rich Democracies”

I’ve been collecting historical data on the gender turnout and preference gaps after suffrage using old ass books…

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...

British Journal of Political Science Cox, Fiva & King abstract graphic

#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization Through Social Networks - cup.org/4hlPjCY

- Gary W. Cox, @fiva.no & @maxemilking.bsky.social

Research assistant - Department of Economics The Department of Economics is seeking qualified candidates for a full time research assistant position associated with the Marketplace Activity Index project.

Super interesting RA (predoc?) opportunity at U Oslo for future development economists -- using satellite images to track rural market activity. Open to non-Norwegian/EU
www.sv.uio.no/econ/english...

Made a starter pack on Economists (and related) in Norway: go.bsky.app/SaEqpCs
Let me know if you want to be added to the list.

Inspired by @jansauermann.bsky.social and @hhsievertsen.bsky.social with the Swedish and Danish lists and the thread by @ginapieters.bsky.social
#EconSky 📉📈

Mixed feelings about the Nightjet 🌃🚂 *revolutionary* mini cabins but excited to be traveling to Vienna🇦🇹 in style🍸to hang with Team Norway @fiva.no @siggi1.bsky.social @christinebangum.bsky.social ++ at the #epcs2024 conference next week!

Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization through Social Networks

New CESifo wp. with Gary Cox and @maxemilking.bsky.social

www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...