After years of work, we (w/ @simonchauchard) are releasing our new tool to collect WhatsApp data at scale! Introducing WhatsApp Explorer, a tool to collect data in a privacy preserving, opt-in, legal and practical way

paper: osf.io/k6qv5

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Economists care more and more about meaningful work! But who has more meaningful jobs in the labor market? Some key patterns from our recent paper in Management Science using nationwide Swedish survey data (N=121,000) (doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2…). 1/8

📢New #PAG20 Critical Perspectives Sarah Bush & Pär Zetterberg introduce this issue's Critical Perspective on gender equality and authoritarian regimes. The collection looks to understand progress and backlash related to laws advancing gender equality cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Paper available here: dropbox.com/scl/fi/vjy0wkm…

Instead, taste-based discrimination & the absence of sanctions for interference likely drives these inequalities .
CONCLUSION: quotas alone are not enough. Complementary interventions + sanctions required to ensure that gender quotas generate substantive change. 4/5

Why? We point to several reinforcing mechanisms. But stress that selection mechanisms & statistical discrimination are only a small part of the story.

Relying on behavioral & reputational measures of voice/centrality/influence, we compare women elected on gender quotas vs. others (mostly, men).

Findings are GRIM: women appear less central on every metric, & are seen as less central by all pol. actors-inc. themselves.

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🚨 forthcoming Journal of Politics @[email protected]: super excited that the 1st paper on project with Alyssa René Heinze & Rachel E. Brule is now accepted.

We show that inequality does not stop at the gate of political office: Indian women face large inequalities in voice & centrality AFTER they reach office 1/n

🗣️🗣️🗣️WHAT DOES Elizabeth Warren want the BU admin to know???

A very inspiring testimony by Roya Mahboob at #AWER Department of State under leadership of U.S. Special Envoy Rina Amiri among other distinguished speakers like #Fahad_Hamad_Hassan_Al_Sulaiti from Education Above All Foundation Isobel Coleman Rachel E. Brule Leah Belsky naria santalucia

🌍Climate change is a women's issue!🌍

In 'Climate Shocks and Gendered Political Transformation,' Rachel E. Brule explores how climate emergencies can destabilize gendered social systems & inspire women to mobilize politically #COP28

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A recent journal article in Annual Reviews from Rachel E. Brule finds that women in the Global South have increased opportunities to articulate + negotiate power than women in the Global North.

Read more: gdpcenter.org/41nb0vG

📢New #PAG19 Critical Perspectives📢 Rachel E. Brule in 'Climate Shocks and Gendered Political Transformation' looks to South Asia to argue that 'climate shocks' are gendered and open new opportunities women's representation in politics cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Excited to read my brilliant colleague Solé Prillaman’s forthcoming book!

Congrats, Solé!

A very smart scholar on the political science job market.

Check out Annabelle Hutchinson’s great work!

A recent issue of Seminar Magazine co-edited by Rachel E. Brule addresses issues related to women's political representation in India and challenges the belief that the husbands of female elected leaders run state affairs from behind the scenes:

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Are power-hungry husbands the main hurdle to female-led government in rural India?

A recent issue of Seminar Magazine co-edited by Rachel E. Brule addresses this question and more.

Explore the issue: gdpcenter.org/3s16qWd

Using South Asia as a case study, Rachel E. Brule develops a theory for understanding where, when + why climate-related disasters can improve female economic + political autonomy.

Read more in a new Politics & Gender article: gdpcenter.org/3OrVKHY

The amendment to the birth and death registrations Act passed in Parliament was barely debated but it risks excluding the poorest & raises serious concerns of privacy. We argue 'Rather than wielding the axe of coercion, less haste & more deliberation was needed' w/h Partha

Sociologist Nandini Sundar writes about the brilliant young historian Umar Khalid who has been falsely imprisoned by the Indian govt. thewire.in/rights/umar-kh…