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by Janina Steinert

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📣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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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:
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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
Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence
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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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Reposted by: Janina Steinert, Joan A. Casey, Mathew V. Kiang , and 1 more

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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
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hsternberg.bsky.social
@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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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
What is needed:

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

by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
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
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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
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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Reposted by: Janina Steinert

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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
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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
Internationaler Weltfrauentag in München ♀️💙💪
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Reposted by: Janina Steinert, Anita Guerrini

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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...
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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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
❌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
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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
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
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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
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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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
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
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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
We propose solutions at structural, project, and individual levels to ensure staff wellbeing, improve ethical integrity, and enhance data rigour
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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
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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by Janina Steinert — Reposted by: Janina Steinert, Jörg Peters

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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…
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Reposted by: Janina Steinert

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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 🧵👇
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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by Janina Steinert — Reposted by: Heidi Stöckl

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An estimated 300,000 people standing up for democracy in Munich today ❤️❤️❤️
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Reposted by: Janina Steinert, Nancy Devlin, Maryann P. Feldman , and 9 more

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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.
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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...
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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...
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Reposted by: Janina Steinert, Huafang Li, Richard Rodríguez

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by Janina Steinert

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

Read the full report here (in German) 👇
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„Angegriffen und alleingelassen" – Pressekonferenz zur neuen Studie
YouTube video by HateAid
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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
➡️ 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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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
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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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
‼️ 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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by Janina Steinert

jisteinert.bsky.social
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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