476. The Øresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden increased the gender wage gap in the region (Bütikofer et al. 2022) 477. Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (official openness) led to the collapse of the Soviet regime (Kramer 2022) 478. Marriage inequality increased civil conflict in the Boko Haram insurgency (Rexer 2022) 479. In […]
Category: science
Experiments and societal challenges
The randomised controlled trial is seen as the gold standard within the social sciences. I do not disagree. I love well-executed experiments with strong causal identification. If two studies, one experimental and one non-experimental, differ in their conclusions, there is no doubt which study I, all else equal, will side with. Most importantly, I often […]
25 interesting facts #19
451. In art auction markets, blue and red paintings generate higher bids (Ma et al. 2022) 452. Increasing group size reduces perceptions of danger (Tedeschi et al. 2021) 453. In 2019, only 54% of Americans agree that human beings developed from earlier species of animals (Miller et al. 2021) 454. Before numerical or written marks […]
#PleaseDontStealMyWork
Universitetsverdenen er et besynderligt sted at være. Der er begrænsede resourcer og få midler, hvorfor akademikere socialiseres til at gå ekstra meget op i status (herunder at fokusere på at publicere i bestemte tidsskrifter, forlag osv.). En væsentlig del af akademikeres arbejde er at få gode idéer, der kan publiceres i anerkendte tidsskrifter. Desværre har […]
25 interesting facts #18
426. Western sanctions on Russia in 2014 forced Putin to pay a political price, but the price was low compared to the benefits arising from the Crimea annexation (Alexseev and Hale 2020) 427. More than three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has been losing resilience since the early 2000s (Boulton et al. 2022) 428. Men are […]