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Sofie Cairo

@cairosofie.bsky.social
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Assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School and postdoc at University of Zürich. Focus on labor, gender, benefits & policy, and economics of science and science funding. Applied & behavioral econ. PhD from @Economics_UCPH.

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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
💥New | The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities ✍️ @cairosofie.bsky.social @riaivandic.bsky.social @ansolassen.bsky.social & @valentinatartari.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Childcare #Motherhood (@cep-lse.bsky.social)
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The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact
Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...
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Anne Sophie Lassen @ansolassen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Link to the paper - joint with @cairosofie.bsky.social, @riaivandic.bsky.social and @valentinatartari.bsky.social - here:
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Anne Sophie Lassen @ansolassen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Yesterday, it was Women’s Day Today, you can read our paper on parenthood and women’s under-representation in academia Parenthood leads to women leaving academia - not just career slowdown 👇👇👇 Joint work with @cairosofie.bsky.social, @riaivandic.bsky.social and @valentinatartari.bsky.social
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Ria Ivandic @riaivandic.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Only one in four professors is a woman. We show that motherhood is a key driver of the leaky pipeline, particularly at early career stages. More details in the summary and working paper below👇 Sign up to hear my presentation of the research in the CEPR Applied Economics Seminar on 23 March.
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Anne Sophie Lassen @ansolassen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Next week, @riaivandic.bsky.social will present our paper at the WE_ARE @cepr.org seminar series More info and register here 👉 cepr.org/events/event...
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Women in Economics: Advancing Research in Economics
CEPR's WE_ARE Women in Economics: Advancing Research in Economics, a virtual seminar series launched in June 2020, aims to bring together junior and senior women in economics and to contribute to building an active and cooperative CEPR women in the economics community. WE_ARE Seminar Series is structured around thematic weeks each month, designed to facilitate deeper, more impactful conversations: Week 1: Finance Week 2: Macroeconomics & International Economics Week 3: Microeconomics & Applied Microeconomics Week 4: Mentoring/Networking Sessions (once a term)
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Anne Sophie Lassen @ansolassen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Really very happy to see our paper covered in Nature Magazine Full paper here cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publica...
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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
📚 📣 Are you in the Stockholm area on September 22nd? Come discuss new research about gender gaps in academia at Stockholm University! Email me to sign up. Program below!
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
📢 Join us at AOM in CPH for our PDW “Innovating For All: The Role Of Diversity In Shaping Research And Innovation Outcomes”. 📅 📍 Sunday 27th July 2025, 10:45am-1:15PM CEST, Bella Center in Hall C-C2-M3. Organizers: Yotam Sofer, Sofie Cairo, Alice Arusyak Zakaryan #GenderGap#RacialGap
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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I am heartbroken by the passing of our colleague Ghazala Azmat. A wonderful economist and AEJ: Economic Policy Board member, she was generous with her time and a vital contributor to many areas within applied economics and economic policy. She will be sorely missed. My heart goes out to her family.
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Extremely sad to receive news from EEA that Ghazala Azmat - an excellent scholar of gender economics - has passed on June 7 2025. Her work on gender gaps in career aspirations have inspired so many in people in our field. My thoughts go to her loved ones!
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
What happens to women when they are denied an abortion? Short run: their risk of death rises. A full 15 years later, they experience: more health issues, lower attainment, reduced labor-force participation, higher single motherhood, higher poverty, + greater government assistance
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Along with everything else, Trump has threatened to put 50 percent tariffs on the EU, which would basically shut down trans-Atlantic trade. Many people have noted that (a) the EU has very low tariffs on US goods (b) much of the EU surplus in goods is offset by a deficit in services. But ...
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Eva Rimbau-Gilabert @erimbau.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
#Parenthood shapes scientists — but it should not limit scientific discovery and recognition. We need a #research system where no one has to choose between science and #caregiving. Read @cairosofie.bsky.social ‘s paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... #AcademicSky
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Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance
<div> This study investigates the unequal effects of parenthood on the scientific productivity of mothers and fathers in the natural sciences and medicine. Lev
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 15/05/2025
🚨 FINAL REMINDER: deadline for submissions ends TODAY, 15th of May 🚨 We're so much looking forward to the workshop, featuring keynotes by Ulrike Malmendier & Noam Yuchtman 🤩 Don't miss to send your best papers using field experiments! 🥳 @cesifo.org @ifoeducation.bsky.social
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
📢 The next #REGIS seminar will occur this Friday, May 9, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET. 🤓 Jing Zhao (Mälardalen University 🇸🇪) will present the paper by Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, and Lindsey Raymond, titled "Generative AI at Work," published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025).
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Misha Teplitskiy | Science of science | on LinkedIn mostly @innovation.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Hmmm, maybe enforcing antitrust is a good idea 🤔
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Grateful that @ansolassen.bsky.social is crossing the atlantic to present our joint work on the motherhood penalty on academic careers at the NBER workshop "Investments in Early Career Scientists" - hosted by Donna Ginther and Bruce Weinberg!
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
📢 The next #REGIS seminar year will occur this Friday, April 25, 2025, at 12.30 PM CET. 🤓 Astrid Ulv Thomsen (CBS) will present "Climbing the ivory tower: How socio-economic background shapes academia."by Ran Abramitzky, Lena Greska, Santiago Perez, Joe Price, Carlo Schwarz & Fabian Waldinger.
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REGIS
Welcome! REGIS is a bi-weekly, pan-European virtual reading group series focusing on Science, Technology, and Innovation topics. REGIS’ main objectives are twofold. First, it seeks to train young sch...
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Bluesky friends: I am looking for a global values survey that covers gender-science norms (to complement classical gender norms). Do you know any open source survey datasets on gender-science? Any papers I should check?
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.
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Lise Vesterlund @lisev.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Copenhagen Business School is giving me an honorary doctorate, and I cannot overstate how much this means to me. Please join me for the celebration and public lecture on March 21st. Registration in the link below.
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Kristoffer Glavind @glavind.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Kvinders psykiske arbejdsmiljø er på alle parametre hårdere end mænds. Det viser jeg i anledning af Kvindernes internationale kampdag, 8. marts, i en ny analyse. #dkpol #arbejdsmiljø
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📢 Call for papers: 📢 @cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education (co-organized with Rick Hanushek) 5-6 Sept 2025, Munich Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social 👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202... Submission deadline: 18 May 2025 Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Ingo E. Isphording @ingoisphording.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Devastating news at IZA yesterday. More than 25 years of hard work, earned reputation, and valuable institutional knowledge and public good provision wiped out with a single stroke. It’s hard to find the words.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...
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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The Big Sell: Privatizing East Germany's Economy" By @lukasmergele.bsky.social, Moritz Hennecke, & @mlubczyk.bsky.social
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Ria Ivandic @riaivandic.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A large gender gap persists in STEM disciplines across the world that is bad for innovation, talent attraction & against fairness principles. On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, @ansolassen.bsky.social @cairosofie.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social are sharing our findings ⬇️
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🎯 Looking for a PHD? Search no more! Come to the Department of Strategy and Innovation at CBS and help us answer RQs with great societal impact: Who becomes an inventor? How do personal characteristics influence innovation and science? How can we close diversity gaps in leadership and on boards?
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🚨 Ph.D. students: don't miss the #REGIS Summer School on #Economics and #Management of #Science, #Tech, and #Innovation in Bordeaux on June 17–20, 2025! Outstanding speakers: Bhaven Sampat, Kevin Bryan, Carolina Castaldi, Steve Gong, Francesco Lissoni + Feedback on research + Valuable networking
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Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos @ipp-csic.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Third IPP Seminar of 2025! Following two insightful seminars on migration and discrimination, we continue with a thought-provoking debate on gender. Sofie Cairo, assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School will join us to present his last talk. Also live on YouTube: tinyurl.com/2897fwlw
Poster of the third IPP Seminar of 2025

The Institute for Public Goods and Policies (IPP) continues its 2025 seminar series with a discussion on gender and academia.

Sofie Cairo, Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School, will present "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance." Her research explores how motherhood impacts academic careers, shedding light on gender disparities in research productivity and career progression.

Date: Wednesday, February 5th
Time: 12:00 AM
Venue: Herbert Simon Room, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales at the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

Join us for this insightful session on gender dynamics in academia.
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Marta Fraile @martafraile.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
How much does being a mother penalize women researchers? If you are interested in the topic, join our next seminar session at @ipp-csic.bsky.social with the great @cairosofie.bsky.social. Next Wednesday Feb 5. Everyone is welcomed! 👇
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🚨 Region Hovedstaden just posted about menopause on FB -and got it wrong! They skip first-line treatment (HRT!) to suggest… exercise and no smoking?! 🤦‍♀️ This matters. Women are left to self-medicate, buy online drugs and being handed SSRIs. We need evidence-based care—not misinformation
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
What is the best data for house price falls in Denmark around 2008? Tax records including property wealth from the registers? References to papers using liquidity shocks in Denmark - please send my way. Thx
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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Danske kvinders representation i ledelsesstillinger ligger et godt stykke under OECD gennemsnit - og under 30 procent!
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
📢 The next #REGIS seminar year will occur this Friday, November 29, 2024, at 12.30 PM CET. 🔗 Register to the mailing list at www.regis.science to receive the Zoom link. Full paper: lnkd.in/easNUUMw
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Welcome! REGIS is a bi-weekly, pan-European virtual reading group series focusing on Science, Technology, and Innovation topics. REGIS’ main objectives are twofold. First, it seeks to train young sch...
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
(Some) Men self-promote in subtle ways. Choice of academic title by a man: "Professor" (rather than "Assistant Professor"). People who don't know, are likely to perceive him as a full professor. Choice of a woman at the same Department: "Associate Professor" (rather than Professor).
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 31/10/2024
💡We're thrilled to announce another engaging industry roundtable at #CDSM24 next week, hosted by Evan Peet from Amazon! Don't miss your chance to join us for this fully virtual event—register by Monday at causalscience.org.
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Excited to examine child penalties on academic promotions in Denmark with @ansolassen.bsky.social @valentinatartari.bsky.social and Ria Ivandic. The productivity penalty found for wet STEM fields in "Publish or Procreate" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social) delays promotion and deepens the tenure gap
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
📢 Call for presenter! 🤓 Are you an econ. or management Ph.D. student in science, technology, and innovation? 👩‍🏫 Are you willing to present and discuss a recently published paper in the field? 🗓️ Are you free on December 13 from 12.30 to 13.30 CET? 1️⃣ Have you attended at least one #REGIS seminar?
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Welcome! REGIS is a bi-weekly, pan-European virtual reading group series focusing on Science, Technology, and Innovation topics. REGIS’ main objectives are twofold. First, it seeks to train young sch...
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Sofie Cairo @cairosofie.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Today - I presented new results on the child penalty among Danish STEM Master students at risk of publishing at the TPRI Seminar at Boston University. Thanks to Carlsbergfondet and @valentinatartari.bsky.social
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