Anne Sophie Lassen
@ansolassen.bsky.social
PostDoc WZB-Berlin and Berlin School of Economics, researching gender norms and inequality
Reposted by Anne Sophie Lassen
📚 📣 Are you in the Stockholm area on September 22nd? Come discuss new research about gender gaps in academia at Stockholm University! Email me to sign up. Program below!
September 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
📚 📣 Are you in the Stockholm area on September 22nd? Come discuss new research about gender gaps in academia at Stockholm University! Email me to sign up. Program below!
Join us at Copenhagen Business School on Sept 29, 2025 for a full-day workshop on Gender Norms, Family Dynamics, and Labor Market Outcomes
🔗 Registration: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1289/
Featuring: @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social, @esmeezwiers.bsky.social, @jakobsogaard.bsky.social and more 👇👀
🔗 Registration: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1289/
Featuring: @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social, @esmeezwiers.bsky.social, @jakobsogaard.bsky.social and more 👇👀
August 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Join us at Copenhagen Business School on Sept 29, 2025 for a full-day workshop on Gender Norms, Family Dynamics, and Labor Market Outcomes
🔗 Registration: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1289/
Featuring: @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social, @esmeezwiers.bsky.social, @jakobsogaard.bsky.social and more 👇👀
🔗 Registration: cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1289/
Featuring: @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social, @esmeezwiers.bsky.social, @jakobsogaard.bsky.social and more 👇👀
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Attention Berlin-based PhDs & early-career researchers!
On 18–19 September, join the RFBerlin Masterclass with Barbara Petrongolo and get the chance to deepen your understanding of The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market.
Apply by 15 August: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...
On 18–19 September, join the RFBerlin Masterclass with Barbara Petrongolo and get the chance to deepen your understanding of The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market.
Apply by 15 August: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...
August 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Attention Berlin-based PhDs & early-career researchers!
On 18–19 September, join the RFBerlin Masterclass with Barbara Petrongolo and get the chance to deepen your understanding of The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market.
Apply by 15 August: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...
On 18–19 September, join the RFBerlin Masterclass with Barbara Petrongolo and get the chance to deepen your understanding of The Evolution of Gender in the Labor Market.
Apply by 15 August: www.rfberlin.com/event/rfberl...
Really very happy to attend the NBER SI, and for our paper on the role of firms in explaining the gender wage gap - with harmonized data from 11 countries - to be included in the joint Gender & Labor session this morning!
Come say hi and enjoy @marcogpalladino.bsky.social's presentation!
Come say hi and enjoy @marcogpalladino.bsky.social's presentation!
July 22, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Really very happy to attend the NBER SI, and for our paper on the role of firms in explaining the gender wage gap - with harmonized data from 11 countries - to be included in the joint Gender & Labor session this morning!
Come say hi and enjoy @marcogpalladino.bsky.social's presentation!
Come say hi and enjoy @marcogpalladino.bsky.social's presentation!
Such a cool paper!
When I think about interruption at work (and mental load on which we know even less), this is my first reference!
When I think about interruption at work (and mental load on which we know even less), this is my first reference!
Thrilled to have found such a fantastic home @qjeharvard.bsky.social for this paper with @laurakgee.bsky.social & @kbuzard7.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/5xkefck4
tinyurl.com/5xkefck4
June 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Such a cool paper!
When I think about interruption at work (and mental load on which we know even less), this is my first reference!
When I think about interruption at work (and mental load on which we know even less), this is my first reference!
Reposted by Anne Sophie Lassen
📆 Join us on June 11 at our economics research seminar with Anne Sophie Lassen (@ansolassen.bsky.social), who will present "Earmarking Parental Leave to Fathers: Effects on Beliefs, Norms, and Childcare."
More info and abstract:
www.jku.at/en/departmen...
#EconSky
More info and abstract:
www.jku.at/en/departmen...
#EconSky
June 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
📆 Join us on June 11 at our economics research seminar with Anne Sophie Lassen (@ansolassen.bsky.social), who will present "Earmarking Parental Leave to Fathers: Effects on Beliefs, Norms, and Childcare."
More info and abstract:
www.jku.at/en/departmen...
#EconSky
More info and abstract:
www.jku.at/en/departmen...
#EconSky
🚉 —> NBER Spring Meeting on Investments in Early Career Scientists
Looking forward to see some cool projects (www.nber.org/conferences/...) and get feedback on our project ‘Parenthood and the Academic Ladder’ (with @cairosofie.bsky.social @riaivandic.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social)
Looking forward to see some cool projects (www.nber.org/conferences/...) and get feedback on our project ‘Parenthood and the Academic Ladder’ (with @cairosofie.bsky.social @riaivandic.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social)
April 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🚉 —> NBER Spring Meeting on Investments in Early Career Scientists
Looking forward to see some cool projects (www.nber.org/conferences/...) and get feedback on our project ‘Parenthood and the Academic Ladder’ (with @cairosofie.bsky.social @riaivandic.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social)
Looking forward to see some cool projects (www.nber.org/conferences/...) and get feedback on our project ‘Parenthood and the Academic Ladder’ (with @cairosofie.bsky.social @riaivandic.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social)
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📚 People are more accepting of men falling behind in work and education—and less supportive of policies to help them. The reason? Many believe it’s due to lack of effort.
🔗 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...
@nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...
@nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social
Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind
Abstract. In recent decades, there has been an increase in the share of males struggling in the labor market and education. We show in a set of large-scale
academic.oup.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
📚 People are more accepting of men falling behind in work and education—and less supportive of policies to help them. The reason? Many believe it’s due to lack of effort.
🔗 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...
@nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social
🔗 academic.oup.com/jeea/advance...
@nhhnor.bsky.social @nhhecon.bsky.social
Reposted by Anne Sophie Lassen
🚨🚨 Does labor market discrimination drive economic gaps? Can market competition eliminate discrimination like economic theory suggests? What *kind* of discrimination are we talking about. In a new paper, Alex Willen & I explore the question. #Econsky
April 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨🚨 Does labor market discrimination drive economic gaps? Can market competition eliminate discrimination like economic theory suggests? What *kind* of discrimination are we talking about. In a new paper, Alex Willen & I explore the question. #Econsky
April 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reposted by Anne Sophie Lassen
🚨🆕 In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with
@wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇
@wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇
April 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🚨🆕 In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with
@wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇
@wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇
Reposted by Anne Sophie Lassen
Teaching boys home economics in school in Japan increased the amount of housework they did 20 years later
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
April 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Teaching boys home economics in school in Japan increased the amount of housework they did 20 years later
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Do men increase their support for gender equality if they have daughters?
Some papers suggest so!
Join this meta-science project as a co-author, work with SOEP data and help us all learn more!
Some papers suggest so!
Join this meta-science project as a co-author, work with SOEP data and help us all learn more!
🔔 Call for Participation 🔔
Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes.
Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!
Lab² is inviting researchers to take part in a multi-analyst study on the effects of having daughters on various outcomes.
Join this metascience project as a co-author and gain the opportunity to work with SOEP data!
#ManyDaughters
Many Analysts
www.manydaughters.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Do men increase their support for gender equality if they have daughters?
Some papers suggest so!
Join this meta-science project as a co-author, work with SOEP data and help us all learn more!
Some papers suggest so!
Join this meta-science project as a co-author, work with SOEP data and help us all learn more!
Reposted by Anne Sophie Lassen
Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender?
Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world!
A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:
Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world!
A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:
February 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender?
Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world!
A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:
Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world!
A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a link to download the data:
Reposted by Anne Sophie Lassen
Looking back on our Lab² Applied Microeconomics Workshop last Friday. 📖
Thank you to all attendees who joined our half day of presentations, networking and discussions and big thanks to our invited speakers Valeria Zurla and Antoine Bertheau.🎙️
Thank you to all attendees who joined our half day of presentations, networking and discussions and big thanks to our invited speakers Valeria Zurla and Antoine Bertheau.🎙️
February 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Looking back on our Lab² Applied Microeconomics Workshop last Friday. 📖
Thank you to all attendees who joined our half day of presentations, networking and discussions and big thanks to our invited speakers Valeria Zurla and Antoine Bertheau.🎙️
Thank you to all attendees who joined our half day of presentations, networking and discussions and big thanks to our invited speakers Valeria Zurla and Antoine Bertheau.🎙️
Does parenthood influence career trajectories of academics? 🥁🥁
YES!
Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by looking at our striking graphs 👀
YES!
Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by looking at our striking graphs 👀
A large gender gap persists in STEM disciplines across the world that is bad for innovation, talent attraction & against fairness principles. On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @ansolassen.bsky.social @cairosofie.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social are sharing our findings ⬇️
February 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Does parenthood influence career trajectories of academics? 🥁🥁
YES!
Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by looking at our striking graphs 👀
YES!
Celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by looking at our striking graphs 👀
Reposted by Anne Sophie Lassen
Why is there a gender gap in management promotions? Is it due to families’ or firms’ decisions? In a new paper with Frederik Almar, Ben Friedrich, Ana Reynoso and Rune Vejlin, we show that the interaction between families' and firms' career investments is key!
www.nber.org/papers/w33438
#Econsky
www.nber.org/papers/w33438
#Econsky
Families’ Career Investments and Firms’ Promotion Decisions
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
February 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Why is there a gender gap in management promotions? Is it due to families’ or firms’ decisions? In a new paper with Frederik Almar, Ben Friedrich, Ana Reynoso and Rune Vejlin, we show that the interaction between families' and firms' career investments is key!
www.nber.org/papers/w33438
#Econsky
www.nber.org/papers/w33438
#Econsky
Join us for a mix of gender economics and meta-science @wzb.bsky.social
@bseberlin.bsky.social and beyond, sign-up below
@bseberlin.bsky.social and beyond, sign-up below
📣 Upcoming Event
The Lab² Applied Microeconomics Workshop will be taking place on the 7th of February. Half day of networking and discussions and two exiting talks by our invited speakers Valeria Zurla & Antoine Bertheau @bertheau.bsky.social.
👉 Program and Sign-up Link: www.wzb.eu/de/node/85211
The Lab² Applied Microeconomics Workshop will be taking place on the 7th of February. Half day of networking and discussions and two exiting talks by our invited speakers Valeria Zurla & Antoine Bertheau @bertheau.bsky.social.
👉 Program and Sign-up Link: www.wzb.eu/de/node/85211
January 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Join us for a mix of gender economics and meta-science @wzb.bsky.social
@bseberlin.bsky.social and beyond, sign-up below
@bseberlin.bsky.social and beyond, sign-up below
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Babies are small.
Macroeconomies are big.
Put 'em together and you get an absolutely fascinating paper from Claudia Goldin.
TLDR: Economic growth that outpaces social growth can dramatically lower fertility rates.
Macroeconomies are big.
Put 'em together and you get an absolutely fascinating paper from Claudia Goldin.
TLDR: Economic growth that outpaces social growth can dramatically lower fertility rates.
December 30, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Babies are small.
Macroeconomies are big.
Put 'em together and you get an absolutely fascinating paper from Claudia Goldin.
TLDR: Economic growth that outpaces social growth can dramatically lower fertility rates.
Macroeconomies are big.
Put 'em together and you get an absolutely fascinating paper from Claudia Goldin.
TLDR: Economic growth that outpaces social growth can dramatically lower fertility rates.
Reposted by Anne Sophie Lassen
CEP in 2024
October: The impact of parenthood on academic careers was explored in this CentrePiece article by Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen.
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...
October: The impact of parenthood on academic careers was explored in this CentrePiece article by Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen.
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...
December 29, 2024 at 10:40 AM
CEP in 2024
October: The impact of parenthood on academic careers was explored in this CentrePiece article by Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen.
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...
October: The impact of parenthood on academic careers was explored in this CentrePiece article by Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen.
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/d...
🚨 Job opportunity for econ students in Berlin
Come work with me, @felix-holub.bsky.social and @jonasjessen.bsky.social on topics in gender and labor
Deadline Jan 5. Details here; wzb.eu/en/jobs/stud...
Please help spread the word @bseberlin.bsky.social
Come work with me, @felix-holub.bsky.social and @jonasjessen.bsky.social on topics in gender and labor
Deadline Jan 5. Details here; wzb.eu/en/jobs/stud...
Please help spread the word @bseberlin.bsky.social
Student Assistants (f/m/x) (ID 311)
For its research group ‘Inequality, Social Mobility and Growth’, the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) is looking for two Student Assistants (f/m/x) (ID 311) on a temporary basis for at least...
wzb.eu
December 18, 2024 at 8:28 AM
🚨 Job opportunity for econ students in Berlin
Come work with me, @felix-holub.bsky.social and @jonasjessen.bsky.social on topics in gender and labor
Deadline Jan 5. Details here; wzb.eu/en/jobs/stud...
Please help spread the word @bseberlin.bsky.social
Come work with me, @felix-holub.bsky.social and @jonasjessen.bsky.social on topics in gender and labor
Deadline Jan 5. Details here; wzb.eu/en/jobs/stud...
Please help spread the word @bseberlin.bsky.social
Hi #econsky
👩⚕️👨⚕️ I would like to organize a session on the labor market of health care workers at the 2025 @ashecon.bsky.social conference
I need one more paper (abstract) that fit this theme!
If this is you, respond here or email me so we can connect!
👩⚕️👨⚕️ I would like to organize a session on the labor market of health care workers at the 2025 @ashecon.bsky.social conference
I need one more paper (abstract) that fit this theme!
If this is you, respond here or email me so we can connect!
The call for abstracts for the 14th ASHEcon Conference is now open! The conference will be held June 22-25, 2025 at the Grand Hyatt Nashville in Nashville, TN.
Submit here 👉 www.ashecon.org/announcement...
The deadline for submissions is Dec. 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM PST.
Submit here 👉 www.ashecon.org/announcement...
The deadline for submissions is Dec. 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM PST.
December 8, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Hi #econsky
👩⚕️👨⚕️ I would like to organize a session on the labor market of health care workers at the 2025 @ashecon.bsky.social conference
I need one more paper (abstract) that fit this theme!
If this is you, respond here or email me so we can connect!
👩⚕️👨⚕️ I would like to organize a session on the labor market of health care workers at the 2025 @ashecon.bsky.social conference
I need one more paper (abstract) that fit this theme!
If this is you, respond here or email me so we can connect!
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FELLOWSHIPS for Scholars at Risk
Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality.
Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field.
saferesearchers.eu
Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality.
Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field.
saferesearchers.eu
SAFE - Supporting
At-risk researchers
with Fellowships in Europe
As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...
saferesearchers.eu
December 1, 2024 at 9:18 PM
FELLOWSHIPS for Scholars at Risk
Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality.
Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field.
saferesearchers.eu
Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality.
Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field.
saferesearchers.eu
Late to the 🦗🐜 party but I liked the Good on Paper episode
(also the parts about @andreamatranga.bsky.social research production function)
podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/g...
(also the parts about @andreamatranga.bsky.social research production function)
podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/g...
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Podcast Episode · Good on Paper · 19/11/2024 · 48m
podcasts.apple.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Late to the 🦗🐜 party but I liked the Good on Paper episode
(also the parts about @andreamatranga.bsky.social research production function)
podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/g...
(also the parts about @andreamatranga.bsky.social research production function)
podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/g...