Banning the purchase of sex 🚨DOES NOT🚨increase cases of reported rape.

A re-analysis of Ciacci (2024) shows that the paper's headline result comes from an erroneous use of Stata's regression command.

A thread from @Jopieboy, @OlleFolke, and me 1/11

https://twitter.com/JohnHolbein1/status/1769516372059390039

The paper argues that the number of reported rapes increased by 44—62% when the law was introduced in January 1999. Curiously, no such jump is visible when we plot the yearly number of reported rapes. 2/11

Our paper on workplace sexual harassment is now out in the QJE! (with @ollefolke).

A thread on what we do and find, using nationally representative survey data, administrative data, and a survey experiment.

Read the open-access paper here: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj… We examine how women’s and men’s risks of sexual harassment are related to the workplace sex composition. With these risk patterns as a starting point, we then show how harassment leads to more gender segregation and wage inequality in the labor market.

We have a New Working Paper on the political economy of politicians’ neighborhoods! We show that politicians live in richer neighborhoods and protect them from undesirable buildings and the removal of public goods. A thread 1/11, and the Paper: nottingham.ac.uk/research/group… Politicians should represent their whole district and not favor their neighborhood. Yet, our Swedish data shows that they do. These results come from admin data for the geolocations of all local councilors' homes and all new building permits and school closures (1991-14). 2/11

New research finds that romantic passes from university teachers lead to lower academic identification and self-esteem, especially among women students who are less sure of their academic credentials. A thread [1/15] Alexandra Laird and Emily Pronin recruited students on the Princeton University campus and for three survey experiments, each with ~100 participants. The compensation was candy and an entry into a lottery for $200. [2/15]

New working paper on sexual harassment! We do three things: i) describe the variation in self-reports of sexual harassment across occupations and workplaces, ii) measure how workers valuate the risk of harassment, and iii) test if employers compensate that risk. Thread [1/16] We measure sexual harassment in nationally representative survey data for the Swedish labor market (N=50,000). We use two questions (listed below) to create a binary indicator for harassment from colleagues and managers in the last 12 months. [2/16]

On this International Women’s Day, we present “The Business Case for Dealing Assertively with Sexual Harassment”, an analysis of how firms’ handling of sexual harassment cases impacts on their attractiveness as employers for global talent. A thread 1/8 After the #MeToo movement, prominent observers like Sunstein (2019) have cautioned against disproportionate responses to bad behavior, claiming that many people in today’s workforce feel that “excessive and dangerous” attention to sexual harassment puts workplace harmony at risk.

On this International Women’s Day, me and @ollefolke tell the story of gender equality in Sweden in four animated graphs (thread).

How has relative earnings, marriage, parenthood, and the household divisions of income changed over time for 50 year olds in Sweden? 1. In the 1970s, a woman had to be in the top 20% of women earners to make it into the top 50% of the national earnings distribution.

The figure plots women’s and men’s place in the total earnings distribution (Y-axis) against their placement within their sex (X-axis).

The most depressing research paper of 2018? "The Mark of a Woman’s Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring" (Quadlin 2018, ASR). This is a correspondence study showing that women are penalized in job searches for having good university grades. 2,106 fictitious job applications for entry-level positions were submitted with randomized manipulation of GPA, gender, and college major. Call-back data shows that GPA mattered little for men's. For women, mid-level performers were called back more than others.

Thread about our new paper, which gives a description of the rise of the Radical Right in Sweden, both from the supply side (politicians) and the demand side (voters) — with @ollefolke. drive.google.com/file/d/115uMhY… 1/9 The Sweden Democrats entered parliament in 2010 and became the third largest party in 2014 — a rise that preceded the 2015 refugee crisis. We link the rise to two macroeconomic events that triggered income inequality and job insecurity for large labor market segments. 2/9