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Ralph De Haas
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EBRD’s Director of Research, CEPR Research Fellow, part-time Professor of Finance at KU Leuven. 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺. Views are my own.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15
📢New working paper: "Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences" w/ @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Ieda Matavelli+@vicbar.bsky.social.

We review the literature on how masculinity norms - the informal rules guiding men's behavior - shape economic outcomes in health, labor markets & politics. 🧵

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Victoria Baranov @vicbar.bsky.social · 26d
🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️

tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social

welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Oct 7
Do banks' climate commitments represent real change or simply greenwashing? M Bernad, @ralphdehaas.bsky.social, & J Pablo Rud find patterns that suggest voluntary climate initiatives can represent meaningful organisational differences and not just cheap talk.
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The low-carbon transition requires substantial financial mobilisation, yet it is unclear whether banks' public climate commitments represent real change or simply greenwashing. This column uses unique survey data from 335 banks across 33 emerging markets to examine their internal green practices and lending approaches. The authors find that climate-committed banks score substantially higher on green management and lending practices, their borrowers are more likely to make green investments, and environmentally oriented firms preferentially match with green banks locally. These patterns suggest voluntary climate initiatives in emerging markets can represent meaningful organisational differences and not just cheap talk, though uneven adoption also reveals the limits of voluntary approaches.

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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · Sep 16
Violent Conflict & Cross-Border Lending: This study finds that during violent conflicts, foreign #banks reduce overall lending to affected countries but increase #loans to military & dual-use sectors.

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Sep 1
@vicbar.bsky.social @ralphdehaas.bsky.social @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social & I Matavelli show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.
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Graph showing a strong negative correlation between GDP per capita and unequal gender role norms. While economists have extensively studied gender norms affecting women, masculinity norms – the informal rules that guide and constrain the behaviours of boys and men – remain underexplored. This column reviews how such norms can shape economic outcomes in labour markets, health, education, households, and politics. Drawing on new survey data from 87,000 individuals across 70 countries, the authors show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Sep 1
🆕VoxEU column: "Masculinity norms and their economic consequences"

\w @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social @vicbar.bsky.social and Ieda Matavelli @ebrd.bsky.social #econsky

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15
The economics profession has extensively studied norms affecting women but largely overlooked those guiding and sometimes constraining men. Time to change that! Read the paper:

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15
Moreover, using new data from 70,000+ respondents across 70 countries, we show that masculinity norms powerfully predict: 📊 increased willingness to work more hours 📊 Greater risk-taking & poorer mental health 📊 Support for strongman leadership.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15
Why do men avoid service sector jobs even when unemployed? Why do workplace cultures resist family-friendly policies? Why are men 3x more likely to die from "deaths of despair"? We discuss how understanding masculinity norms can help explain these puzzles.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15
We first review how other disciplines have studied masculinity, providing economists with conceptual foundations for understanding masculinity norms.

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