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Janina Steinert

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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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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Jul 7

📣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 ⬇️

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CESifo @cesifo.org · May 28

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...

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · May 22

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

Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence

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3D Seminar @3dseminar.bsky.social · May 8

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...

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JAMA @jama.com · Apr 24

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

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Henrike Sternberg @hsternberg.bsky.social · Apr 21

@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

CfP_BavarianDevEcon_PhDWorkshop_2025.pdf

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Apr 1

What is needed:

➡️Increased awareness of economic abuse
➡️Gender-egalitarian legislation
➡️Culturally sensitive interventions
➡️More longitudinal research on economic abuse

Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Apr 1

Key findings:
✔️Economic abuse includes refusal to contribute financially, restricting access to shared housing, bride price and dowry-related tactics & exploitation of women’s labor
✔️Marriage practices & patrilocality are key risks
✔️Economic abuse leads to poor health & financial hardship

Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

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Sara Reardon @sarareardon.bsky.social · Mar 11

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

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Mar 8

Internationaler Weltfrauentag in München ♀️💙💪

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Cailin O’Connor @cailinmeister.bsky.social · Feb 26

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...

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

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Feb 23

❌We do not observe greater violence in states with higher mobility reductions, lower day care capacity for childcare or higher COVID-19 infection numbers
✔️But our cross-sectional household-level data suggests that home quarantine & financial distress may have been triggers of violence

@tum.de

Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Feb 23

What we find:

➡️Requests at helplines increased significantly by 34% with the first lockdown
➡️Requests at shelters increased by 14% only after the lockdown
👉This means: Women substituted ambulatory care with helpline calls during the lockdown

Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Feb 23

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...

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

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Feb 20

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...

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

Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Feb 18

We propose solutions at structural, project, and individual levels to ensure staff wellbeing, improve ethical integrity, and enhance data rigour

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Feb 18

Based on 57 semi-structured interviews with research staff across hierarchies (data collectors, PhD students, PIs...) and world regions, we identify structural, country, and individual-level challenges leading to ethical failures like insecurity, distress, and exploitation

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Feb 18

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

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

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Yannis Theocharis @yannistheocharis.bsky.social · Feb 11

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 🧵👇

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

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Feb 8

An estimated 300,000 people standing up for democracy in Munich today ❤️❤️❤️

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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · Feb 6

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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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jan 28

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

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HateAid @hateaid.org · Jan 22

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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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Jan 20

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Jan 16

Watch the press conference here 👇
youtu.be/IROrSXgBvWs?...

Read the full report here (in German) 👇
osf.io/j4stx/

„Angegriffen und alleingelassen" – Pressekonferenz zur neuen Studie

YouTube video by HateAid

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Jan 16

➡️ 11 politically active women participated in qualitative in-depth interviews.
➡️ The study cannot claim representativeness for all politically active people in Germany

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Jan 16

Note on methods:
➡️ 1.114 politically active people, including politicians (67%) activists (19 %), academics (5 %), journalists and publicists (4%), influencers (3%) and other party members (2%), participated in our quantitative online survey

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Jan 16

‼️ Our conclusion: Digital violence is a major threat to the functioning of our democracy and to women's representation in public discourse more specifically

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Janina Steinert @jisteinert.bsky.social · Jan 16

3️⃣ 82% of affected women & 69% of affected men experience negative emotional consequences like anxiety, stress, insomnia
4️⃣ 22% of affected women and 10% of affected men consider quitting their political activism and work due to the attacks they face

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