Edgeworth (yes the one from the Edgeworth box that any student of microeconomics encouters) explaining why women ought to earn less than men. Thanks @CleoCZ for sharing this text and initiating a feminist reading!!

En la información compartida por World Health Organization (WHO) sobre la vacuna de Sinopharm tiene más de 90% de efectividad (vida real). #LasVacunasFuncionan

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the EU is doing *a lot better* on vaccinations. The current pace still exactly tracks our boosted-supply upside, which would see the EU's goal of 70% of adult population vaccinated before the end of June. short thread 1/3

If there is a labor shortage, it's all about women. >100% of labor force gains came from men in April every way you cut it bls.gov/news.release/p…

The Lancet, 06/19/21, front cover:

If we wanted to get the pandemic contained, we'd be doing a helluva lot more to help South America Our World in Data

The World Bank says $50B could vaccinate the world. And yet for 8 months, it's failed to put up the cash. What went wrong? Quick thread on my new piece in nature world view: nature.com/articles/d4158… 1/

A lot has been written about gender differences in the ability to work from home during Covid I've just revised my paper which uses detailed task level data to show that, even pre-Covid, women faced more interruptions when WFH with sig. implications for productivity 🧵

"There is no doubt that a substantial proportion of the governing Conservative party shares Patel’s contempt for the England team’s anti-racism efforts While the government equivocates, it has been left to Gareth Southgate to give a clear lead on racism" ft.com/content/b55b99…

Vacunación #COVID19 y pirámide poblacional 🇵🇪, actualizado al 09ago21 Gráfica del gran Ricardobohl

After 10 weeks, the strike is over! We are thrilled to announce that we have reached a tentative agreement with @columbia. This is a historic moment for labor in higher ed, and it is just the beginning. We look forward to getting back to work and compensation for our back work.

NEW: Ivermectin doesn’t prevent severe disease from Covid-19 any more effectively than a placebo, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Platges de Barcelona, 1990. (Encara que costi de creure, són el Bogatell, Mar Bella i Llevant) 📷 Colita /afb

Today, Clara Sievert, Valentin Bolotnyy🇺🇸🇺🇦, Paul Barreira, and I shared results of our study of mental health in European Economics Departments with the 14 participating departments. A thread about what we did and learned. The executive summary is here: elisamacchi.github.io/files/emhs_exe… 1/N

Lima es la ciudad más contaminada de Sudamérica, la tercera en el mundo. Razones: priorización de cemento; ausencia de cinturones verdes; sistema de transporte altamente contaminante; 0 zonificación ecológica y planeamiento urbano; 0 metas de calidad ambiental. Y cada vez peor.

The root of the problem: the president and congress have far too much power to check one another, as I explain here:

How years of instability came to a head in Peru vox.com/23576393/peru-…

Do #videogames widen the #GenderGap in #ComputerScience? Yes! Discover more in our next #NetworkInequality talk by Claudia Meza-Cuadra. 🗓️ September 12, 11AM CET Register to all talks: bit.ly/LSNI-2024 Info: networkinequality.com/lecture-series Complexity Science Hub

Always wonderful to see young people get (well deserved!) prizes 🏆 Congrats Claudia Meza-Cuadra Federica Meluzzi 🤩