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      <title>The Cost of Tolerating Intolerance: Right-Wing Protest and Hate Crimes</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316718</link>
      <description>Title: The Cost of Tolerating Intolerance: Right-Wing Protest and Hate Crimes
Authors: Sardoschau, Sulin; Casanueva-Artís, Annalí
Abstract: Freedom of speech is central to democracy, but protests that amplify extremist views expose a critical trade-off between civil liberties and public safety. This paper investigates how right-wing demonstrations affect the incidence of hate crimes, focusing on Germany's largest far-right movement since World War II. Leveraging a difference-in-differences framework with instrumental variable and event-study approaches, we find that a 20 percent increase in local protest attendance nearly doubles hate crime occurrences. We explore three potential mechanisms—signaling, agitation, and coordination—by examining protest dynamics, spatial diffusion, media influence, counter-mobilization, and crime characteristics. Our analysis reveals that large protests primarily act as signals of broad xenophobic support, legitimizing extremist violence. This signaling effect propagates through right-wing social media networks and is intensified by local newspaper coverage and Twitter discussions. Consequently, large protests shift local equilibria, resulting in sustained higher levels of violence primarily perpetrated by repeat offenders. Notably, these protests trigger resistance predominantly online, rather than physical counter-protests.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Comment on "Improving Women's Mental Health During a Pandemic"</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316737</link>
      <description>Title: A Comment on "Improving Women's Mental Health During a Pandemic"
Authors: Brodeur, Abel; Fiala, Lenka; Fitzgerald, Jack; Kujansuu, Essi; Valenta, David; Rogeberg, Ole; Bensch, Gunther
Abstract: Vlassopoulos et al. (2024) find that after providing two hours of telephone counseling over three months, a sample of Bangladeshi women saw significant reductions in stress and depression after ten months. We find three anomalies. First, estimates are almost entirely driven by reverse-scored survey items, which are handled inconsistently both in the code and in the field. Second, participants in this experiment are reused from multiple prior experiments conducted by the paper's authors, and estimates are extremely sensitive to the experiment from which participants originate. Finally, inconsistencies and irregularities in raw survey files raise doubts about the data.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>On the Role of Legislation as a Driver of Incentive Management Practices in Europe</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316733</link>
      <description>Title: On the Role of Legislation as a Driver of Incentive Management Practices in Europe
Authors: Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino
Abstract: This paper investigates one aspect of the structured management practices literature which has argued that exogenous legislative changes leading to reductions in union power (identified with the passage of RTW laws) serve to increase the use of management incentives practices often resisted by unions as giving too much discretion to the employer. Capturing such alterations in the business environment by compound legal changes in employee representation protection we investigate whether corresponding changes in the use of incentive management practices are found in European nations. Our baseline difference-in-differences model shows that reductions in the protection offered employees are associated with increased adoption of "people management," while increases in employee representation protection point to more strongly significant negative treatment effect estimates. Each finding is corroborated in a complementary analysis using synthetic control methods. Future discussion of management practices might be expected to take explicit account of the value of employee voice.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Menopause "Penalty"</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316748</link>
      <description>Title: The Menopause "Penalty"
Authors: Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, Barton
Abstract: The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause—a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms—also entails substantial costs. Using population-wide Norwegian and Swedish data and quasi-experimental methods, we show that a menopause diagnosis leads to lasting drops in earnings and employment, alongside greater reliance on social transfers. The impact is especially severe for women with lower socioeconomic status. Increasing access to menopause-related health care can help offset these losses. Our findings reveal the hidden economic toll of menopause and the potential gains from better support policies.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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