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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another successful gathering of SMOQKists, this time at UQAM and with fantastic PhD poster presentations!

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Max Bell School of Public Policy @maxbellschool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ethan Zuckerman, a prominent media scholar, has been named the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in the Digital Public Sphere at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy. www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschoo...

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McGill University @mcgill.ca · 27/08/2026

Backed by a historic federal investment, McGill has recruited six Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada. These globally renowned experts are coming to Canada to tackle pressing challenges, make discoveries, and advance innovation here at home.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 20/07/2026

Trump gives us another reminder: Canada needs a warlike effort to separate from the US, to boycott their country and their products, and to strengthen relations with democratic countries instead.

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🙌 10 days left to submit your paper to LACEA LAMES 2026!

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

One month left to submit your paper to LACEA - LAMES 2026!

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Be sure to check out the impressive lineup of keynote and invited speakers—and don’t miss the mentoring initiatives for junior scholars, in collaboration with LAMES, WELAC, and RIDGE.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I am honoured to co-chair this year's LACEA with Sebastian Sotelo, LAMES co-chairs (Marina Azzimonti, Cesar Martinelli), & the team at the PUCP led by Gabriel Rodriguez. We have been working hard to put together an outstanding program committee and bring leading economists to this year’s meeting!

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🚨 Call for Papers: LACEA - LAMES 2026 🚨 Submissions now open for the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association annual meetings Nov 12–14, 2026 in Lima, 🇵🇪! 📅 Submission Due: May 31, 2026 🔗 : lacealames2026.org Share widely and see you there! #LACEA2026 #Econsky #EconConf

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LACEA LAMES - 2026 Annual Meeting | Lima - Peru

Join LACEA LAMES 2026 in Lima, Peru, November 12-14. Submit abstracts. Leading economists, keynote speakers, and cutting-edge research.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Thrilled to be working with an amazing team of researchers from Fundación Capital, IDB, GRADE & McGill on a project to understand how gender norms act as a barrier for women-led businesses in Paraguay & what policy makers can do about it. Read what our awesome co-author Laura Morínigo writes abt it.

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Investigar para construir: percepción, agencia y decisiones de negocio entre mujeres emprendedoras - Fundación Capital

Mejorando la vida económica y financiera de millones de personas en todo el mundo.

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McGill University @mcgill.ca · 18/12/2025

McGill is recruiting top-tier researchers working abroad through the federally funded Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program, addressing global and national challenges. The first round is due in early 2026. Learn more and submit your candidacy: mcgill.ca/x/5Zh

McGill’s Arts Building on campus, featuring its stone façade and green dome, with the McGill flag raised and autumn foliage surrounding the building.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Come join us at McGill! We are recruiting top-tier researchers working abroad.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

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‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Lucky! You got snow! Send it our way please 🙏 (speaking for a minority)

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

And a shout out to my formidable co-authors Lorena Alcázar, @franquegrimard.bsky.social, Andrea Ulloa, Tamara Pressman 🙌

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I'll be presenting this paper on Thursday Nov 20 at 10:30 #LACEA2025 in Recife, in case you are interested. Link to paper: bit.ly/43Cso1R Thanks for reading if you made it this far!😊

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

➡️ In summary, in this working paper, we find evidence of significant norms misperceptions, that these misperceptions are stronger among women when the reference group is male, and that gender norms influence the division of household labour.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

However, we find that men are more likely to report being responsible for routine tasks if they believe their male peers are more progressive – and not whether they themselves hold progressive beliefs.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Indeed, domestic chores are highly gendered, with women bearing the majority of the responsibility for routine chores such as cleaning, cooking, and childcare. Women’s time allocated to these chores is influenced by their own beliefs rather than common beliefs.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

While gender norms beliefs do not appear to influence how men allocate their time between market and domestic work, their beliefs do influence who assumes responsibility for different domestic tasks within the household.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

➡️ Second, we find that gender norms influence time allocation, with more progressive women spending less time in domestic chores and more time in leisure, but have little relationship with labour force participation at the intensive and extensive margins.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Most strikingly, while both men and women believe other women are more conservative than women actually are, women greatly misperceive men’s beliefs:

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

We found some interesting results. ➡️ First, male and female participants in our study do not differ much in their own beliefs about gender norms, and more educated individuals tend to have more progressive beliefs. However, both men and women tend to overstate how conservative others are.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

1️⃣ What do women and men believe about social norms and do these beliefs vary across reference groups? 2️⃣ Do they form accurate beliefs about what others’ think about gender norms? 3️⃣ Do these beliefs correlate with the division of labour within the household?

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

We elicited individual and common beliefs about gender norms in three domains (labour supply, leisure and domestic work) using a lab-in-the-field experiment with 500 participants from low-income neighbourhoods in Lima, Peru, to try to answer three questions.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

💥New Working Paper!💥 Women in Peru🇵🇪 spend 3 to 4 hours per day more than men in unpaid domestic and care work, regardless of their labour force participation. With colleagues @mcgill.ca and GRADE, we wanted to see whether beliefs about gender norms could help explain this pattern.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Now out in open access: "Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol” doi.org/10.1080/2469.... Ben Forest and I explain why people fly “foreign” flags and why such displays can evoke powerful emotional reactions, both positive and negative.

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Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol

How and why did the European Union (EU) flag, once a banal marker of European integration and institutions in its member states, become such a politically charged symbol outside of the EU? We demon...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Excited to get to welcome Steven Levitsky to McGill to kick off our first annual conference on democratic studies led by the new Diamond-Brown Professor Juan Pablo Luna.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I can't say it better than my colleagues -- apply to join our Economics Department @mcgill.ca. We are hiring and looking especially for Econometrics and IO.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Meanwhile, some big departures from MIT announced today www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...

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Nobel Laureates Duflo and Banerjee to Join UZH

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

And it’s a wrap! #SMOQK 2025 at Concordia - 5 excellent papers in development economics. What a great community we have in the Sherbrooke Montreal Ottawa Quebec and Kingston area. See you again in a year!

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

And another set of amazing papers for the afternoon with @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social (Laval), Zemar Hakim (Queens), and @caitbrownecon.bsky.social (Laval) #SMOQK2025

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

And we’re off! The 3rd annual SMOQK devo day at Concordia, with great presentations by Sylvain Dessy (Laval) Paula Lopez-Pena (Queens) this morning

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🆕 Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) discusses how Ethiopia's large-scale road expansion accelerated structural transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

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Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation

Ethiopia’s large-scale road expansion cut travel times to markets – boosting farm productivity, reshaping cropping patterns, and accelerating structural change.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16/09/2025

OPINION: "Pronatalists argue that there will be too few workers to sustain the economy and too many older people for those workers to support. However, that is not necessarily true—and even if it were, increasing birth rates wouldn’t fix the problem," Root et al. write. buff.ly/EYgNpNm

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Opinion | Falling Birth Rates Won’t Cause Population Decline

Root, Guzzo and Clark write about misconceptions associated with pronatalism and how a population decline is not imminent.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Proud to share our paper on gender norms in 🇵🇾, out in the July 2025 issue of Economic Development and Cultural Change. With colleagues @McGill.ca and Fundación Capital, we ran a lab-in-the-field experiment to understand how an interactive digital application can influence beliefs about gender norms.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Thanks for reading the thread this far, and hope you’ll read the paper. If you like our work, stay tuned, as we are working on several new projects on gender norms in Latin America.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

We also add to a recent but growing evidence base which documents misperceived gender norms. We find evidence among women in Paraguay. This suggests a further policy lever for encouraging gender transformative change – correcting misperceived norms.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

We believe these results are important because they show promise that even a small and short-term dose of digital gender awareness interventions can shift normative beliefs towards gender equity and empowerment.

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