Helen, talk to economists like @erinhengel and @economeager.
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I think Acharya, Blackwell and Sen 2016 is a very good paper on the pitfalls of attempting to control for potential mediator variables (eg here occupational choices which are influenced by gender) http://www.mattblackwell.org/files/papers/direct-effects.pdf …
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It seems there is very little point in having wage gap statistics if nothing further than gender can be considered. No political point anyway. Nothing to tell us whether we should be concerned about this or not.
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There is a lot "further" to be done here! But it is not best done by naively controlling for mediators. And that paper -- which I assume you will read given your great interest in this topic -- outlines at least 1 better method than naively controlling for intermediate variables!
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Can anything further be done with the statistics tho, is what I am asking. Certainly a lot can be done to discover whether discrimination is prevalent and how much role gender differences play.
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Nested structural models like the one discussed in the paper Dr. Meager posted look promising. Further, we can point to audit studies (for example in which blinded auditions produced more female hires in an orchestra.) More can and is being done!
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OK, well you lot can do that and let us know if you ever find a way to discover anything about the causes of the imbalance. I'm going to keep focusing on the social stuff and biological stuff.
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With regard to social stuff you might want to check out Alesina, Giuliano, and Nunn’s (2013) paper that makes the case that widespread adoption of the plow might have instigated or deepened social norms that contribute to sex-based division of labor.
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Helen is an editor for Aero magazine, founded by
@MalharMali (who I went to undergrad with at CCGA and even had an economics class with, if I remember correctly). She blocked me for suggesting a paper aligned with her research interests.@economeager were you blocked too?pic.twitter.com/o8u99psAmJ
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Replying to @elben @HPluckrose and
But you said you were interested in social and genetic reasons behind the GWG?!pic.twitter.com/nxXlITdX6b
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Oh! That was you! Sorry! That was the moment I lost my temper and then blocked everyone.
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