Well this paper is fun. He downloads thousands of econ seminars from YouTube. Figures out range of human voice, identifies women vs men. Discovers that women experience more interruptions. More senior presenters: less interruptions (1/2)
Register for the 12th edition of the Gender Equality Workshop at Bocconi‼️
@lise_vesterlund will be giving a keynote lecture on The No Club 🚫
🗓 Thur., 13 Oct.
⏰ Registration 1:15pm, Welcome Address 1:45pm CET
🖥 Hybrid event
@Paola_Profeta@Unibocconi
Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are just some of the ones I like:
Which types of social capital best explain economic mobility? Using data from Facebook, we consider more than a dozen social capital measures and our answers appear in a pair of papers in @Nature: https://t.co/dN5pX2mXhv 1/5
Want to end child marriage? Ensure access to reproductive health care that includes contraception, and safe abortion for adolescents & economic incentives to keep girls in school. Ending child marriage: ensuring healthy futures for girls - The Lancet https://t.co/C0dz4Hj9W0
It appears that a court with politically appointed judges is at risk of turning political at some point.
One wonders if a similar insight might apply for central banks.
My most up-to-date projection, accounting for policy changes in the last month, is that about 100,000 women seeking abortions will be unable to reach a provider in the first year after a Roe reversal. About 75,000 of them will give birth as a result. #econtwitter
As an editor, I often read discussions that are long winded, meandering and fail to make an impact.
They feel like an after-thought rather than a key part of the paper.
Here are some tips to make your discussion better. Full credit to @sanjaysaint who taught me this years ago!