Posted on 30 April 2008 by Allison
I’ve been enjoying Economist’s View’s dispatches from the Milken Institute Global Conference. (An aside: Someone should start a website that aggregates blogged accounts of conferences around the world. I don’t have the time or resources to attend nearly as many meetings as I’d like to, so I appreciate reading about them.)
Here’s a bit on a [...]
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Posted on 30 April 2008 by Allison
I skipped Blog for Fair Pay Day, partly because I was studying, and partly because it was an American legislative campaign that I don’t feel much connection to. Nonetheless, I have wage gaps on the brain, and I’m still poking through the material released for that initiative.
The central statistic – that American women make 77 [...]
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Posted on 29 April 2008 by Allison
Folks over at the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) have started a YouTube channel for feminist economics. So far they’ve collected a number of videos from the release of the World Economic Forum’s 2007 Global Gender Gap Report. You can watch Saadia Zahidi’s presentation here, and a response panel here. Both of those clips [...]
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Posted on 29 April 2008 by Allison
There’s been a link on my blogroll all along, but in case you’ve missed it, anyone who’s enthused about this site should click over to Echidne of the Snakes. Echidne has been blogging about economics and feminism much longer and more intelligently than I. Lately I’ve been reading back through the archives. A good place [...]
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Posted on 29 April 2008 by Allison
An experimental World Bank-backed program in southern Tanzania will pay people to avoid unsafe sex. Hat tip to Marginal Revolution. I’ll repeat a few things said by commenters, but since some of it was said in horrifying context (“in a country like Africa”) I think it’s worth discussing at length.
The assumption is that the problem [...]
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Posted on 17 April 2008 by Allison
Yesterday afternoon, as I sat in a library cafeteria approximating volume by cylindrical shells (calculus exam in t-minus 8 days!) I was distracted by the couple beside me. They were arguing over whether to get married. He wanted to get hitched and move to Chicago; she said that he was too sexist to spend her [...]
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Posted on 17 April 2008 by Allison
Here’s a beautiful illustration of what I’m trying to do. Feministing and Freakonomics are both posting about that report on the cost of divorce. Feminists have long criticized marriage incentives and the reasoning behind them – Feministing’s take hits home as always, pointing out the “family values” sponsors of the report.
Studies like these are not [...]
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Posted on 15 April 2008 by Allison
A study of 17 men working on a trading floor in London, to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reports that “a trader’s morning testosterone level predicts his day’s profitability.” J.M. Coates and J. Herbert sampled 17 traders’ testosterone and cortisol levels during an eight day period bracketing [...]
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Posted on 5 April 2008 by Allison
Some stories will not die. Early this month, a Macleans article blamed Canada’s GP shortage on female doctors. Women, they suggested, are more likely to work part-time, and all that time they spend with their families sap the health care system of needed (wo)man hours.
The first problem with the story is that it isn’t true. [...]
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Posted on 4 April 2008 by Allison
I find myself clicking back to Dani Rodrik’s “American political economics in one picture” about the impact of Democratic vs. Republican presidents on the distribution of income. (To oversimplify, under Democratic presidents poor people do a little better.) It’s a compelling result, but there are some sensible criticisms in the comment thread. Shouldn’t the [...]
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Posted on 4 April 2008 by Allison
I spent a few minutes at WAM chatting with one of the presenters about fathers and feminism. We were talking about the importance of men in the women’s movement generally, and how fathering daughters seems to bring even unlikely men around on women’s issues.
Then I came home and found this study on voting patterns in [...]
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Posted on 3 April 2008 by Allison
I have been wanting to start this site for some time, but it got a needed kick start at Women, Action and the Media, a conference in Cambridge, MA last weekend. It was fantastic - I picked up some new skills, met some new people, and came home full of words.
Journalism is a scary business [...]
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Posted on 2 April 2008 by Allison
I’m an undergraduate in economics and international relations at the University of Toronto in Canada. This site is about what happens when my intellectual passion, economics, butts up against my political proclivities towards feminism, anti-oppression, and scepticism.
Over the past year, I’ve been thrilled to discover a vital community of blogging economists. Where my lectures are dry [...]
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