Janina Steinert
@jisteinert.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Technical University of Munich | DPhil University of Oxford | Research: Health, Development, Violence | more: https://sites.google.com/view/janina-i-steinert
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How can policy address #intimatepartnerviolence and why do we need better data? 💡
Join us 16 Oct, 18:00 at @hertieschool.bsky.social for a discussion with @jisteinert.bsky.social, Miriam Schroer-Hippel, Christina Boll and more! Details & registration ⬇️
🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
Join us 16 Oct, 18:00 at @hertieschool.bsky.social for a discussion with @jisteinert.bsky.social, Miriam Schroer-Hippel, Christina Boll and more! Details & registration ⬇️
🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
Intimate partner violence: Data challenges and policy solutions
<p>Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread issue with serious and far-reaching consequences for individuals and societies. Beyond physical violence, IPV involves patterns of psychological viol...
www.hertie-school.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
How can policy address #intimatepartnerviolence and why do we need better data? 💡
Join us 16 Oct, 18:00 at @hertieschool.bsky.social for a discussion with @jisteinert.bsky.social, Miriam Schroer-Hippel, Christina Boll and more! Details & registration ⬇️
🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
Join us 16 Oct, 18:00 at @hertieschool.bsky.social for a discussion with @jisteinert.bsky.social, Miriam Schroer-Hippel, Christina Boll and more! Details & registration ⬇️
🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
📣Join us for this year's Early Career Workshop and Fall Meeting on Health Economics and Development Cooperation at @tum.de, hosted by @nsud.bsky.social and myself!
Please submit your paper abstracts by July 14 - more information below ⬇️
Please submit your paper abstracts by July 14 - more information below ⬇️
July 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
📣Join us for this year's Early Career Workshop and Fall Meeting on Health Economics and Development Cooperation at @tum.de, hosted by @nsud.bsky.social and myself!
Please submit your paper abstracts by July 14 - more information below ⬇️
Please submit your paper abstracts by July 14 - more information below ⬇️
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New 📝
"Empowerment Paradox? The Long-Run Impact of a Cycling Program for Girls in Zambia"👀
✍️ @garciahdezana.bsky.social Nishith Prakash, Janina Isabel Steinert
How a program empowered women & reduced violence, but paradoxically coincided with early marriage & pregnancy:
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
"Empowerment Paradox? The Long-Run Impact of a Cycling Program for Girls in Zambia"👀
✍️ @garciahdezana.bsky.social Nishith Prakash, Janina Isabel Steinert
How a program empowered women & reduced violence, but paradoxically coincided with early marriage & pregnancy:
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
May 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
New 📝
"Empowerment Paradox? The Long-Run Impact of a Cycling Program for Girls in Zambia"👀
✍️ @garciahdezana.bsky.social Nishith Prakash, Janina Isabel Steinert
How a program empowered women & reduced violence, but paradoxically coincided with early marriage & pregnancy:
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
"Empowerment Paradox? The Long-Run Impact of a Cycling Program for Girls in Zambia"👀
✍️ @garciahdezana.bsky.social Nishith Prakash, Janina Isabel Steinert
How a program empowered women & reduced violence, but paradoxically coincided with early marriage & pregnancy:
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
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The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
May 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
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I am looking forward to tomorrow's 3D seminar that promises an engaging dialogue on how to protect women from violence in challenging conditions.
Our next seminar will be held on May 22nd, at 3pm (UTC+2).
Ghassan Baliki (ISDC) and Sahar El Hachem (FCDO) will discuss strategies for reducing and preventing violence against women in Syria.
Register at: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...
Ghassan Baliki (ISDC) and Sahar El Hachem (FCDO) will discuss strategies for reducing and preventing violence against women in Syria.
Register at: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...
May 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I am looking forward to tomorrow's 3D seminar that promises an engaging dialogue on how to protect women from violence in challenging conditions.
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Continued routine childhood vaccination at high coverage is needed to prevent resurgence of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their infection-related complications in the US.
ja.ma/3YeEcVv #MedSky
ja.ma/3YeEcVv #MedSky
April 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Continued routine childhood vaccination at high coverage is needed to prevent resurgence of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their infection-related complications in the US.
ja.ma/3YeEcVv #MedSky
ja.ma/3YeEcVv #MedSky
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@jisteinert.bsky.social, Andreas Landmann, and I are organizing a Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics in July! Goal is to strengthen the regional network among PhD students in Bavaria who work on DevEcon. Please spread the word and apply/drop by! :) Deadline May 4.
tinyurl.com/zzem65nx
tinyurl.com/zzem65nx
CfP_BavarianDevEcon_PhDWorkshop_2025.pdf
tinyurl.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
@jisteinert.bsky.social, Andreas Landmann, and I are organizing a Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics in July! Goal is to strengthen the regional network among PhD students in Bavaria who work on DevEcon. Please spread the word and apply/drop by! :) Deadline May 4.
tinyurl.com/zzem65nx
tinyurl.com/zzem65nx
New paper out with the brilliant @sangeet.bsky.social: "Economic Abuse in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review"
👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248380251325194
👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248380251325194
April 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
New paper out with the brilliant @sangeet.bsky.social: "Economic Abuse in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review"
👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248380251325194
👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248380251325194
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The NIH is cancelling dozens of grants involving vaccines, including a project that studied whether the COVID vax is safe for breastfeeding mothers. mRNA vaccine research is next on the chopping block. Story @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The NIH is cancelling dozens of grants involving vaccines, including a project that studied whether the COVID vax is safe for breastfeeding mothers. mRNA vaccine research is next on the chopping block. Story @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Internationaler Weltfrauentag in München ♀️💙💪
March 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Internationaler Weltfrauentag in München ♀️💙💪
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Some history and philosophy of science about into why this matters- traditionally medical and biological research has studied male animals much more than females. To this day there is still a skew 1
www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Some history and philosophy of science about into why this matters- traditionally medical and biological research has studied male animals much more than females. To this day there is still a skew 1
www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
New paper co-authored with Dr. Cara Ebert @rwi.bsky.social: What was the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violence against women in Germany?
We analyse longitudinal data on help requests to helplines & shelters + survey data from the first pandemic wave
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We analyse longitudinal data on help requests to helplines & shelters + survey data from the first pandemic wave
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Violence against women and the substitution of help services in times of lockdown: Triangulation of three data sources in Germany
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws on three data sources: (1) long…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
New paper co-authored with Dr. Cara Ebert @rwi.bsky.social: What was the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violence against women in Germany?
We analyse longitudinal data on help requests to helplines & shelters + survey data from the first pandemic wave
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We analyse longitudinal data on help requests to helplines & shelters + survey data from the first pandemic wave
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Folgen der Suspendierung von USAID: "Wir sprechen darüber, eine zweite Welle einer globalen HIV-Epidemie auszulösen, die weitgehend unter Kontrolle gebracht wurde."
www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
USAid: Die Zerstörung hat schon begonnen
Ob Projekte gegen HIV, Malaria oder vernachlässigte Tropenkrankheiten: Die USA streichen ihre medizinische Entwicklungshilfe. Die Folgen sind schon jetzt dramatisch.
www.zeit.de
February 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Folgen der Suspendierung von USAID: "Wir sprechen darüber, eine zweite Welle einer globalen HIV-Epidemie auszulösen, die weitgehend unter Kontrolle gebracht wurde."
www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
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Very important work on #ethics in #fieldresearch. We have to establish adequate structures and standards to ensure #equity and #safety in international research, and, importantly, we need funders to allow for, even demand these structures.
#EconSky #GlobalHealth
#EconSky #GlobalHealth
Out today in World Development Perspectives: Our paper on #ethics & #equity failures faced by research staff collecting data in LMIC contexts
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
Ethics and Equity: Addressing Violations of the Belmont Report principles for research staff
Particularly in development research, data is often collected in settings characterised by high deprivation, risk and power asymmetries, which aggrava…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Very important work on #ethics in #fieldresearch. We have to establish adequate structures and standards to ensure #equity and #safety in international research, and, importantly, we need funders to allow for, even demand these structures.
#EconSky #GlobalHealth
#EconSky #GlobalHealth
Out today in World Development Perspectives: Our paper on #ethics & #equity failures faced by research staff collecting data in LMIC contexts
👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
Ethics and Equity: Addressing Violations of the Belmont Report principles for research staff
Particularly in development research, data is often collected in settings characterised by high deprivation, risk and power asymmetries, which aggrava…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Out today in World Development Perspectives: Our paper on #ethics & #equity failures faced by research staff collecting data in LMIC contexts
👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
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Thrilled that our report "CONTENT WARNING: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression", launched today, has received a very warm reception by the media!
📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02...
More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇
📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02...
More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇
Gewalt im Internet: Umfrage: Mehrheit wünscht sich Kontrolle in sozialen Medien
Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Gewalt im Internet“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Umfrage: Mehrheit wünscht sich Kontrolle in sozialen Medien“.
www.zeit.de
February 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thrilled that our report "CONTENT WARNING: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression", launched today, has received a very warm reception by the media!
📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02...
More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇
📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02...
More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇
An estimated 300,000 people standing up for democracy in Munich today ❤️❤️❤️
February 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
An estimated 300,000 people standing up for democracy in Munich today ❤️❤️❤️
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Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper documents discrimination in the formation of professional
networks among academic economists. Specifically, we
created 80 human-like bot accounts that claim to be Ph...
www.aeaweb.org
January 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Digitale Gewalt treibt demokratische Stimmen aus den Parlamenten. @yvonnemagwas.bsky.social ist kein Einzelfall. Wir müssen verhindern, dass nicht nur die übrig bleiben, die Hetze verbreiten. Denn Hass darf nicht regieren. Das sind unsere Forderungen: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p...
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Digitale Gewalt treibt demokratische Stimmen aus den Parlamenten. @yvonnemagwas.bsky.social ist kein Einzelfall. Wir müssen verhindern, dass nicht nur die übrig bleiben, die Hetze verbreiten. Denn Hass darf nicht regieren. Das sind unsere Forderungen: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p...
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I knew Shakespeare would have a line for today.
January 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I knew Shakespeare would have a line for today.
Yesterday I had the great honour of presenting our report on #DigitalViolence against politically active people in Germany at a Federal Press Conference in Berlin with our partner organisation
@hateaid.org - with support from
@bidt.bsky.social
@hateaid.org - with support from
@bidt.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Yesterday I had the great honour of presenting our report on #DigitalViolence against politically active people in Germany at a Federal Press Conference in Berlin with our partner organisation
@hateaid.org - with support from
@bidt.bsky.social
@hateaid.org - with support from
@bidt.bsky.social
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Jede 2. politisch engagierte Person hat schon Anfeindungen im Internet erlebt. Das zeigt die neue Studie der TUM in Kooperation mit HateAid. Die Folge: Digitale Gewalt gefährdet das politische Engagement in Deutschland. Unsere Forderungen: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p... #AngegriffenUndAlleingelassen
January 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Jede 2. politisch engagierte Person hat schon Anfeindungen im Internet erlebt. Das zeigt die neue Studie der TUM in Kooperation mit HateAid. Die Folge: Digitale Gewalt gefährdet das politische Engagement in Deutschland. Unsere Forderungen: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p... #AngegriffenUndAlleingelassen
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#AngegriffenUndAlleingelassen: Wer sich für unsere Gesellschaft einsetzt, ist häufig von Anfeindungen im Netz betroffen. Politisch Engagierte brauchen mehr Schutz. Das zeigt die neue Studie der TU München mit HateAid: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p...
January 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#AngegriffenUndAlleingelassen: Wer sich für unsere Gesellschaft einsetzt, ist häufig von Anfeindungen im Netz betroffen. Politisch Engagierte brauchen mehr Schutz. Das zeigt die neue Studie der TU München mit HateAid: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p...