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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Late working hours are often seen as a barrier to gender equity in politics and beyond🧱. My findings need not imply that family-friendly scheduling is bad policy, but if early meetings backfire for working-class politicians, that trade-off needs to be part of the conversation. 9/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Early sessions, however, increase absences among politicians with inflexible private-sector day jobs by 6 percentage points (~27% relative to their mean). These jobs are typically in the low-skilled/service sector. 8/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Results: Neither women in general (Panel A), nor women with children (Panel B), are more likely to attend meetings held at family-friendly hours. I discuss possible reasons for this null result in the paper.🤔7/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Importantly, this timing variation is conditionally balanced with respect to the topics discussed (black circles in the figure), suggesting it is unrelated to individual preferences for attending. 6/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I exploit within-council variation in session timing – such as in Sør-Aurdal municipality – to assess who is less likely to be absent when meetings are held early (~11am 🌞) vs. late (~5pm 🌙). 5/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Norway provides a compelling setting: recent years have seen growing debate over council meeting times, especially calls for more daytime sessions. 4/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I study a 25% random sample of Norwegian municipalities, hand-coding individual-level attendance for all 2,620 politicians across 3,334 local council meetings (2015–2019). Attendance is generally high, but each session sees 10–15% absence due to illness, childcare, urgent work, etc. 3/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Instead, holding meetings at earlier, more family-friendly times reduces participation among politicians with inflexible, often low-skilled day jobs⚠️. This challenges the idea that scheduling reforms are a silver bullet for inclusion. 2/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Do family-friendly hours make it easier for women politicians to participate in meetings? 🕚 In a new working paper, I find they don’t. 🧵1/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Late working hours are often seen as a barrier to gender equity in politics and beyond.🕔 My findings need not imply that family-friendly scheduling is bad policy, but if early meetings backfire for working-class politicians, that trade-off needs to be part of the conversation. 9/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Instead, politicians with inflexible private-sector day jobs are negatively affected by early meetings: their absence increases by 6 percentage points (~27% relative to their mean). These jobs are typically in the low-skilled/service sector. 8/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Importantly, this variation is conditionally balanced with respect to the topics discussed in the meetings (see black circles in the figure), suggesting it is unrelated to individual preferences for attending. 6/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I exploit within-council variation in session timing – such as in Sør-Aurdal municipality – to assess who are less likely to be absent when meetings are held early (~11am 🌞) vs. late (~5pm 🌙). 5/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Norway provides a compelling setting: in recent years, local media have featured growing debate around council meeting times, especially calls for more daytime sessions. 4/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I study a 25% random sample of Norwegian municipalities, hand-coding individual-level attendance for all 2,620 politicians across 3,334 local council meetings (2015 – 2019). Attendance is generally high, but each session sees 10–15% absence due to illness, childcare, urgent work, or similar. 3/10

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Instead, holding meetings at earlier, more family-friendly hours reduces participation among politicians with inflexible daytime commitments. This challenges the idea that scheduling reforms are a silver bullet for inclusion. 2/10

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Nice. arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

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Colin Green @colinpgreen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We have another PhD position open at NTNU-Economics. Details in link below - particularly interesting for those who want to work at the intersection of behavioural and environmental economics. Main supervisor @agneman.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD in Economics (279627) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Job title: PhD in Economics (279627), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 25, 2025

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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

My NSF was officially terminated “Beyond the Myth: Political Geography, Electoral Institutions, and the Evolution of Women’s Voting Patterns in Rich Democracies” I’ve been collecting historical data on the gender turnout and preference gaps after suffrage using old ass books…

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Mari Rege @marirege.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Opprop! Vi er 47 samfunnsøkonomer som tar til orde for en kraftig økning av Norges støtte til Ukraina. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

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Handlingsregelen må ikke stå i veien for en kraftig økning av Norges støtte til Ukraina

Ved å gi Ukraina det landet trenger, gjør vi nettopp det handlingsregelen var ment å gjøre.

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization Through Social Networks - cup.org/4hlPjCY - Gary W. Cox, @fiva.no & @maxemilking.bsky.social

British Journal of Political Science Cox, Fiva & King abstract graphic

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Laura Derksen @lauraderksen.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Super interesting RA (predoc?) opportunity at U Oslo for future development economists -- using satellite images to track rural market activity. Open to non-Norwegian/EU www.sv.uio.no/econ/english...

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Research assistant - Department of Economics

The Department of Economics is seeking qualified candidates for a full time research assistant position associated with the Marketplace Activity Index project.

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Øystein Hernæs @oysteinhernaes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Made a starter pack on Economists (and related) in Norway: go.bsky.app/SaEqpCs Let me know if you want to be added to the list. Inspired by @jansauermann.bsky.social and @hhsievertsen.bsky.social with the Swedish and Danish lists and the thread by @ginapieters.bsky.social #EconSky 📉📈

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Mixed feelings about the Nightjet 🌃🚂 *revolutionary* mini cabins but excited to be traveling to Vienna🇦🇹 in style🍸to hang with Team Norway @fiva.no @siggi1.bsky.social @christinebangum.bsky.social ++ at the #epcs2024 conference next week!

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Jon Fiva @fiva.no · 23/10/2023

Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization through Social Networks New CESifo wp. with Gary Cox and @maxemilking.bsky.social www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

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Jon Fiva @fiva.no · 26/09/2023

The party is on, get in line. Oda Nedregård defends her thesis today with awesome discussants Elliot Ash and Pauline Grosjean.

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