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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

📝 Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
📂 Meeting hours dataset: www.maxemilking.com/data
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No Time to Attend? Effects of Family-Friendly Meeting Hours in Politics

The challenge of balancing family life with work obligations beyond conventional hours is recognized as a significant driver of gender disparities. I leverage n

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

Late working hours are often seen as a barrier to gender equity in politics and beyond🧱.

My findings need not imply that family-friendly scheduling is bad policy, but if early meetings backfire for working-class politicians, that trade-off needs to be part of the conversation. 9/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

Early sessions, however, increase absences among politicians with inflexible private-sector day jobs by 6 percentage points (~27% relative to their mean).

These jobs are typically in the low-skilled/service sector. 8/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

Results: Neither women in general (Panel A), nor women with children (Panel B), are more likely to attend meetings held at family-friendly hours.

I discuss possible reasons for this null result in the paper.🤔7/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

Importantly, this timing variation is conditionally balanced with respect to the topics discussed (black circles in the figure), suggesting it is unrelated to individual preferences for attending. 6/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

I exploit within-council variation in session timing – such as in Sør-Aurdal municipality – to assess who is less likely to be absent when meetings are held early (~11am 🌞) vs. late (~5pm 🌙). 5/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

Norway provides a compelling setting: recent years have seen growing debate over council meeting times, especially calls for more daytime sessions. 4/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

I study a 25% random sample of Norwegian municipalities, hand-coding individual-level attendance for all 2,620 politicians across 3,334 local council meetings (2015–2019).

Attendance is generally high, but each session sees 10–15% absence due to illness, childcare, urgent work, etc. 3/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

Instead, holding meetings at earlier, more family-friendly times reduces participation among politicians with inflexible, often low-skilled day jobs⚠️.

This challenges the idea that scheduling reforms are a silver bullet for inclusion. 2/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

Do family-friendly hours make it easier for women politicians to participate in meetings? 🕚

In a new working paper, I find they don’t. 🧵1/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 5

📝 Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
📂 Meeting hours dataset: www.maxemilking.com/data
10/10

No Time to Attend? Effects of Family-Friendly Meeting Hours in Politics

The challenge of balancing family life with work obligations beyond conventional hours is recognized as a significant driver of gender disparities. I leverage n

papers.ssrn.com

Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 5

Late working hours are often seen as a barrier to gender equity in politics and beyond.🕔

My findings need not imply that family-friendly scheduling is bad policy, but if early meetings backfire for working-class politicians, that trade-off needs to be part of the conversation. 9/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 5

Instead, politicians with inflexible private-sector day jobs are negatively affected by early meetings: their absence increases by 6 percentage points (~27% relative to their mean).

These jobs are typically in the low-skilled/service sector. 8/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 5

Results: Neither women in general (Panel A), nor women with children (Panel B), are more likely to attend meetings held at family-friendly hours.

I discuss possible reasons for this null result in the paper. 7/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 5

Importantly, this variation is conditionally balanced with respect to the topics discussed in the meetings (see black circles in the figure), suggesting it is unrelated to individual preferences for attending. 6/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 5

I exploit within-council variation in session timing – such as in Sør-Aurdal municipality – to assess who are less likely to be absent when meetings are held early (~11am 🌞) vs. late (~5pm 🌙). 5/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 5

Norway provides a compelling setting: in recent years, local media have featured growing debate around council meeting times, especially calls for more daytime sessions. 4/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 5

I study a 25% random sample of Norwegian municipalities, hand-coding individual-level attendance for all 2,620 politicians across 3,334 local council meetings (2015 – 2019).

Attendance is generally high, but each session sees 10–15% absence due to illness, childcare, urgent work, or similar. 3/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 5

Instead, holding meetings at earlier, more family-friendly hours reduces participation among politicians with inflexible daytime commitments.

This challenges the idea that scheduling reforms are a silver bullet for inclusion. 2/10

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Jon Fiva @fiva.no · Jun 22

Sykelønn: for viktig til å ties ihjel

www.dn.no/innlegg/syke...

Sykelønn: For viktig til å ties i hjel

Fredningen av sykelønnsordningen har vart i snart tre tiår. Dyrevelferd og bompenger nevnes i tre ganger så mange taler i Stortinget som sykelønn.

www.dn.no

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 17

Nice.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

10/ Please help share our extended replication to correct the record on this misleading policy evaluation!

Full replication text here: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

Re-Analysis of Ciacci, R. (2024). Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden.

EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW.

www.econstor.eu

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Colin Green @colinpgreen.bsky.social · May 6

We have another PhD position open at NTNU-Economics. Details in link below - particularly interesting for those who want to work at the intersection of behavioural and environmental economics.

Main supervisor @agneman.bsky.social

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD in Economics (279627) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: PhD in Economics (279627), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 25, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · Apr 25

My NSF was officially terminated “Beyond the Myth: Political Geography, Electoral Institutions, and the Evolution of Women’s Voting Patterns in Rich Democracies”

I’ve been collecting historical data on the gender turnout and preference gaps after suffrage using old ass books…

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Mari Rege @marirege.bsky.social · Mar 2

Opprop! Vi er 47 samfunnsøkonomer som tar til orde for en kraftig økning av Norges støtte til Ukraina.

www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Handlingsregelen må ikke stå i veien for en kraftig økning av Norges støtte til Ukraina

Ved å gi Ukraina det landet trenger, gjør vi nettopp det handlingsregelen var ment å gjøre.

www.aftenposten.no

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