we are working on some more research papers on the same data.
Do you see how 2 years after birth the penalty trajectory turns into a straight line? It stays that straight line up to t=10 if you calculate the 10 year trajectories (not in the paper, but we did it).
Finally let me praise the fantastic team of co-authors that got deep into the weeds of cross-national administrative data analysis with me and made this challenging visual exploration possible: filsa.bsky.social, Pascal Achard and Inga-Marie Amend.
And if you are an academic wondering what to cite when writing about the "strong link between motherhood penalties and gender inequality in the labour market" ... baah voilà (oder hier bitte!)
So if you are a policymaker interested in what to do about the gender earnings gap in your country/region: remember it is really strongly linked to how mothers do in the labour market after they have children!
i mean if you want absolute environmental disaster, moving the whole current world pop to semi-rural small scale agriculture (which seems to be the dream for some) would definitely do the trick.
yes on average, which pushes them in the other direction in terms of consumption patterns, but if you hold country stable at least urbans consume so much less energy, and if you control for income/wealth it probably gets even more extreme...
Not gonna get into the population size - environmental degradation arguments, but what really caught me off-guard in this nature correspondence was the call for reduced urbanization, when evidence clearly shows urban populations being less stressful to the environment. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
otoh i remember the multi-voice version of Buddenbrooks I listened to as a teen very fondly, because of the panoply of different German characters and accents that really shone that way.
Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social)
