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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

📢New working paper: "Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences" w/ @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Ieda [email protected].

We review the literature on how masculinity norms - the informal rules guiding men's behavior - shape economic outcomes in health, labor markets & politics. 🧵

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Sep 1

@vicbar.bsky.social @ralphdehaas.bsky.social @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social & I Matavelli show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.
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Graph showing a strong negative correlation between GDP per capita and unequal gender role norms.

While economists have extensively studied gender norms affecting women, masculinity norms – the informal rules that guide and constrain the behaviours of boys and men – remain underexplored. This column reviews how such norms can shape economic outcomes in labour markets, health, education, households, and politics. Drawing on new survey data from 87,000 individuals across 70 countries, the authors show that adherence to masculinity norms strongly predicts men's labour supply, risk-taking, health behaviours, and support for authoritarian leadership.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Sep 1

🆕VoxEU column: "Masculinity norms and their economic consequences"

\w @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social @vicbar.bsky.social and Ieda Matavelli @ebrd.bsky.social #econsky

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

The economics profession has extensively studied norms affecting women but largely overlooked those guiding and sometimes constraining men. Time to change that! Read the paper:

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

Moreover, using new data from 70,000+ respondents across 70 countries, we show that masculinity norms powerfully predict: 📊 increased willingness to work more hours 📊 Greater risk-taking & poorer mental health 📊 Support for strongman leadership.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

Why do men avoid service sector jobs even when unemployed? Why do workplace cultures resist family-friendly policies? Why are men 3x more likely to die from "deaths of despair"? We discuss how understanding masculinity norms can help explain these puzzles.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

We first review how other disciplines have studied masculinity, providing economists with conceptual foundations for understanding masculinity norms.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Aug 15

📢New working paper: "Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Consequences" w/ @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social Ieda [email protected].

We review the literature on how masculinity norms - the informal rules guiding men's behavior - shape economic outcomes in health, labor markets & politics. 🧵

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Jul 4

Arti Grover & Pierre-Louis Vezina find an increasing role for political alignment or differences in shaping companies' location decisions. Geopolitical differences have a larger negative impact on #FDI today than they did 10 years ago.
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Graph of the effect of geopolitical distance on FDI.

As geopolitical uncertainty rises – due to events ranging from Brexit and the increasing rivalry between major economies to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – firms are increasingly factoring political alignment into their investment decisions. This column uses detailed global data on greenfield projects, mergers and acquisitions, and affiliate stocks, and four measures of political alignment, to explore how foreign direct investment has become more sensitive to geopolitical distance. It reveals how friendshoring trends have accelerated since 2011, and how today’s investment flows reflect deepening geoeconomic fragmentation.

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jul 1

📢 Call for Papers!

Upcoming conference on "Accelerating Growth for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Economies", by @ebrd.bsky.social, We-Fi, IDB, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Keynote: Marianne Bertrand (Chicago Booth)

Submission deadline: 13 July 2025 👉

tinyurl.com/mvcu2drc

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jul 1

Congrats!!

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jul 1

📢 Call for Papers!

Upcoming conference on "Accelerating Growth for Women Entrepreneurs in Developing Economies", by @ebrd.bsky.social, We-Fi, IDB, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Keynote: Marianne Bertrand (Chicago Booth)

Submission deadline: 13 July 2025 👉

tinyurl.com/mvcu2drc

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jun 26

❗And here's another RA position in @ebrd.bsky.social' Office of the Chief Economist, this one for a two-year period:

jobs.ebrd.com/job/London-A...

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jun 24

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x

#econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

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Francesco Loiacono @fraloi.bsky.social · Jun 24

💥Join our team of economists to do research that matters!

Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jun 24

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x

#econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jun 24

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x

#econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · May 22

📢The program for the 7th @ebrd.bsky.social and @cepr.org Research Symposium is now on-line!📢

Join us on June 2-3 in London to discuss “The Economics of Demographic Change"

Keynotes: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (UPenn) and @mdoepke.bsky.social (LSE)

Program and registration: lnkd.in/e5aNypaf

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · May 22

📢The program for the 7th @ebrd.bsky.social and @cepr.org Research Symposium is now on-line!📢

Join us on June 2-3 in London to discuss “The Economics of Demographic Change"

Keynotes: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (UPenn) and @mdoepke.bsky.social (LSE)

Program and registration: lnkd.in/e5aNypaf

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · May 8

☘️Very much enjoyed giving a seminar at the @centralbankireland.bsky.social ☘️ Great discussions with the research economists of the Research Collaboration Unit and connecting with the many colleagues they collaborate with across the Bank. Link to the paper: tinyurl.com/5xxsxw85

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Apr 4

📢Just published in @jintlecon.bsky.social 📢

"Global Banking and Macroeconomic Stability. Liquidity, Control, and Monitoring"

w/ @raoulminetti.bsky.social , Elton Beqiraj, and Qingqing Cao

We examine how the organizational structure of global banks affects economic stability 🧵(1/n)

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Journal of International Economics @jintlecon.bsky.social · Apr 14

Global banks with a centralized business model (with loan officers hired centrally by the parent and an intense use of internal capital markets) help mitigate the impact of financial shocks on the host economy. However, they may become a destabilizing factor following real shocks

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Journal of International Economics @jintlecon.bsky.social · Apr 14

New at JIE: "Global banking and macroeconomic stability. Liquidity, control, and monitoring", by Elton Beqiraj, Qingqing Cao, Ralph De Haas, Raoul Minetti (@raoul_minetti)

doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Apr 7

🗣️We're hiring! @ebrd.bsky.social 's Office of the Chief Economist is hiring an Associate Economist

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/59c49hxv

@fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social @eliaben.bsky.social #EconSky #EconJob

Associate Economist

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Apr 7

🗣️We're hiring! @ebrd.bsky.social 's Office of the Chief Economist is hiring an Associate Economist

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/59c49hxv

@fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social @eliaben.bsky.social #EconSky #EconJob

Associate Economist

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Francesco Loiacono @fraloi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Tomorrow, EBRD OCE's research seminar series features Oxford's @muhammadmeki.bsky.social

👉Link to Muhammad's paper: mmeki.com/wp-content/u...

⭐️OCE honor host of a great list of researchers - for more: loiaconofrancesco.com/oce-research...

@ralphdehaas.bsky.social

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