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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using a diff-in-diff method, we show COVID WFH motivated de-urbanization, creating a taste for 🦅 & reducing income elasticity to future low city rents. To demonstrate causation via 🦢 preferences, we compile a dataset of 🐦house expenditures & plot garden time via phone data -robust to controls for 🐿️

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Andrea Lathrop @cabernet.bsky.social · Aug 2

In the middle of listening, right now... this is VERY, VERY GOOD!

Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 2

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart?

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com joins me to discuss gendered polarisation.

- Does this hold worldwide?
- Which groups are most polarised?
- Is this due to economic frustrations or online persuasion?
- What are the possible solutions?

youtu.be/VrOk1-jChdA?...

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart? John Burn-Murdoch

YouTube video by DrAlice Evans

youtu.be

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 3

Thank you!!!

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Just read the transcript of this. It is absolutely fascinating. Growing left-right gap in young people (even teens) is worldwide

So many big changes happening at a rapid pace (e.g. fertility drop)

Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 2

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart?

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com joins me to discuss gendered polarisation.

- Does this hold worldwide?
- Which groups are most polarised?
- Is this due to economic frustrations or online persuasion?
- What are the possible solutions?

youtu.be/VrOk1-jChdA?...

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart? John Burn-Murdoch

YouTube video by DrAlice Evans

youtu.be

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 2

Thank you so much Colin!

I learn so much from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 2

20% of young men in the UK are not in work or education, nor caring for anyone.

Do economic frustrations drive political polarisation?

But young women are actually more polarised, and often doing better.

Is this due to online persuasion, mimetic copying, or less socialising??

Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 2

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart?

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com joins me to discuss gendered polarisation.

- Does this hold worldwide?
- Which groups are most polarised?
- Is this due to economic frustrations or online persuasion?
- What are the possible solutions?

youtu.be/VrOk1-jChdA?...

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart? John Burn-Murdoch

YouTube video by DrAlice Evans

youtu.be

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 2

As China’s exports come up against trade barriers, they’re offloading & flooding other countries.

🇮🇩 factories have increasingly closed - exacerbating a prior trend of automation, de-industrialisation, & stalled development.

By Jon Emont,
Ft @drodrik.bsky.social

www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 2

Are young men and women scrolling apart?

My chat with @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/70iO...

iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart? John Burn-Murdoch

ROCKING OUR PRIORS · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Aug 2

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart?

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com joins me to discuss gendered polarisation.

- Does this hold worldwide?
- Which groups are most polarised?
- Is this due to economic frustrations or online persuasion?
- What are the possible solutions?

youtu.be/VrOk1-jChdA?...

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart? John Burn-Murdoch

YouTube video by DrAlice Evans

youtu.be

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 31

It was such a treat to be on CNN with the fantastic Fareed Zakaria - who was incredibly kind & insightful!

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 27

Ps. My actual lunch. Very delicious

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 27

3 patriarchs huddle, each glorifies a distinct ideology:

1) says men are more intelligent.

2) claims that female seclusion is necessary for heaven.

3) rejects reproductive freedoms.

Which patriarchal ideology proves most resilient in the 21st century?

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 26

Patriarchy persists in cultural enclaves that legitimise and naturalise inequalities - when it is the air we breathe.

Technological connectivity can be radically disruptive, enabling ideological persuasion.

Have I tagged all the feminist bestsellers here in Yogya? 📚

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you so much to all my friends in Indonesia for being so incredibly hospitable, generous & informative!

This trip has radically advanced my understanding of 🇮🇩 schooling, religious syncretism, nationalism, & gender.

Here’s me looking like I have just heard MAJOR gossip. 👀

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 24

Indonesia’s cultural syncretism - celebrated in wedding photography:

- 3 pins in her hair (cunduk mentul)
- sarongs
- ceremonial dagger (keris)

- guardian deities are wrapped in black-white checked cloth to honour their sacred power

- Islamic hijab

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 24

A fundamental part of the Enlightenment was the belief that a human mind is NOT a fixed state,

We are all capable of reason, logic, & imagination,

But in many environments, this is suffocated and suppressed,

Not least by back-breaking drudgery.

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 24

As someone who has seen how a liberal education can dramatically transform a young person’s mind

- catalysing creativity and curiousity -

I always think of this unrealized potential and untapped talent.

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 24

Indonesia is truly beautiful,

But it’s striking to see so little mechanisation of agriculture. Whether I visit tobacco, rice, or fish farms, much is still done by hand.

So many potentially brilliant minds still trapped in drudgery - “Lost Einsteins”.

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 21

Yogya is gloriously vibrant, it’s such a pleasure to see Prambanan temple, Borobodhur, as well as Indonesians Muslims’ pride & enjoyment of this beautiful heritage.

Also recommended: a ginormous hat.

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 20

Welcome to Yogya, where pink hijabis carefully choreograph a tiktok performance in front of a 9th century Hindu temple. 🇮🇩❤️

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 20

“When we go back to the village, we’re surprised the mangos are still on the trees.

My friends & I used to climb up and steal them.

But now the kids don’t care about mangos: they’re playing video games”

🇮🇩

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 18

The village chief is generously taking me on a big trip up river! 🐟🐠

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 17

Pop quiz for you and your AI:

Where am I?
What’s the building on the left?
What does it tell us?

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 14

“What book should people read to understand gender equality?” asks Lavina

“Romantic fiction!”, I suggest 😀

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Jul 14

“All good?”, asks my mother

“Oh yes, my friend is taking me on a motorbike tour of mosques and holy shrines!” 🏍️ 🇮🇩🕌

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