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Book of the week is "Parties under pressure" by Nuffield College alumnus Matthias Dilling

Gender segregation in the friendship networks of Muslim youth in Germany: the role of chastity norms

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2024.2399725

Paper in Ethnic and Racial Studies by Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow David Kretschmer

Gender segregation in the friendship networks of Muslim youth in Germany: the role of chastity norms Western Muslim youth engage less in romantic relationships than their non-Muslim peers, an observation usually attributed to chastity norms that oppose Muslim youths’ premarital sexual activity. In...

Implementing Walrasian Equilibrium: The Languages of Product-Mix Auctions https://cepr.org/publications/dp19457

Centre for Economic Policy Research - CEPR discussion paper by Nuffield Alumna Elizabeth Baldwin, Nuffield College Fellow Paul Klemperer and Associate Member Edwin Lock

DP19457 Implementing Walrasian Equilibrium: the Languages of Product-Mix Auctions Product-mix auctions are sealed-bid mechanisms for trading multiple divisible or indivisible units of multiple differentiated goods. They implement competitive-equilibrium allocations when these exist, based on the bids that participants make in a simple geometric language. All concave substitutes (...

Birth Timing and Spacing: Implications for Parental Leave Dynamics and Child Penalties
https://cepr.org/publications/dp19324
Centre for Economic Policy Research - CEPR discussion paper by Nuffield College Fellow Abigail Adams-Prassl, NSRF Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen and Nuffield Fellow Barbara Petrongolo

DP19324 Birth Timing and Spacing: Implications for Parental Leave Dynamics and Child Penalties We use rich population-level administrative data from Denmark to develop new facts about the relationship between the timing and spacing of births and labor market outcomes. We show that there is substantial heterogeneity in the age at first birth across maternal skill levels. The spacing of pregnan...

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Religious development from adolescence to early adulthood among Muslim and Christian youth in Germany: A person-oriented approach
https://buff.ly/3yXOEak
Paper in Child Development by Nuffield Research Fellow Olivia Spiegler, Nuffield Fellow Jan O Jonsson and Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Chloe Bracegirdle

Sir David R. Cox. 15 July 1924 — 18 January 2022
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2023.0052
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society entry on Former Nuffield College Warden Sir David Cox by Nancy Reid

Sir David R. Cox. 15 July 1924 — 18 January 2022 | Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society David Cox was the leading statistical scientist of his generation and had an extraordinary influence on the field. His research career spanned some 75 years and 386 published works, with several drafts in preparation at the time of his death. He was ...

Gender Differences in Socioemotional Skills among Adolescents and Young Adults in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2024.2388100
Paper in Journal of Development Studies by Associate Member (and Nuffield College Alumnus) Mobarak Hossain and Matthew C. H. Jukes

Gender Differences in Socioemotional Skills among Adolescents and Young Adults in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam This paper examines the emergence of gender differences in socioemotional skills and traits during adolescence, and the socioeconomic and cultural factors that may explain such gaps, in Ethiopia, I...

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Note this edited volume:
Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality / edited by Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Jo Blanden, Jani Erola & Lindsey Macmillan
https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781800888265/9781800888265.xml
Which includes the following chapters by Nuffield College members past and present (details & links in the comments)

Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data
https://buff.ly/4dwelxN
SocArXiv preprint by Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Casey F. Breen, Masoomali Fatehkia, Jiani Yan, Xinyi Zhao, Associate Member Douglas R. Leasure, Ingmar Weber, and Nuffield College Fellow Ridhi Kashyap

Mapping subnational gender gaps in internet and mobile adoption using social media data The digital revolution has ushered in many societal and economic benefits. Yet access to digital technologies such as mobile phones and internet remains highly unequal, especially by gender in the context of low- and middle-income countries. While national-level estimates are increasingly available....

Mapping drug smuggling networks in Japan: a social network analysis of trial documents
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17440572.2024.2375241
Open Access paper in Global Crime by Martina Baradel and Nuffield College student Niles Breuer
See also this summary from the Department of Sociology
https://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/mapping-drug-smuggling-networks-in-japan

Mapping drug smuggling networks in Japan using trial documents 21 August 2024

From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rego.12620
Paper in Regulation & Governance by Hanna Schwander and Nuffield College student Jonas Fischer

From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy This article reviews recent insights from the blooming Comparative Political Economy (CPE) literature on climate change with the aim to demonstrate the importance of integrating climate change into t...

Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation by Nuffield College alumnus Matthias Dilling. Out in August and coming to the Library soon!

Parties under Pressure An illuminating investigation into why some parties evolve with their times while others fall behind. Around the world, established political parties face mounting pressures: insurgents on the Left and Right, altered media environments, new policy challenges, and the erosion of traditional stronghol...

Connecting Local Economic Decline to the Politics of Geographic Discontent: The Missing Link of Perceptions
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-024-09951-9
Paper in Political Behavior by Nuffield College Fellow Jane Green, Will Jennings, Lawrence McKay and Gerry Stoker

Connecting Local Economic Decline to the Politics of Geographic Discontent: The Missing Link of Perceptions - Political Behavior Local economic decline has been presented as an explanation for populism, political alienation and geographic polarisation. This approach risks underestimating the complexity of observing local economic decline. Using original survey questions in the British Election Study, we theorise five models t...

Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk2070
Paper in Science Advances co-authored by Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow Aashish Gupta & Nuffield College Fellow Ridhi Kashyap

Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020 High-quality survey data in India find large pandemic mortality impacts on the young, women, and marginalized groups in 2020.

Enduring maternal brain changes and their role in mediating motherhood’s impact on well-being
https://buff.ly/3Y8BD84
Paper in Scientific Reports by Associate Member Valentina Rotondi, Michele Allegra, Nuffield College Fellow Ridhi Kashyap, Nicola Barban, Maria Sironi & Carlo Reverberi

Enduring maternal brain changes and their role in mediating motherhood’s impact on well-being - Scientific Reports Parenthood, particularly motherhood, is known to impact the structure and function of the brain in the short term, but the long-term effects of parenthood and their impacts on well-being are still poorly understood. This study explores the potential longer-term associations between parenthood and th...

Persistent inequality: contemporary inequality in a historical context
https://academic.oup.com/ooec/article/3/Supplement_1/i821/7708066
Paper in Oxford Open Economics by Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow Richard Breen

Persistent inequality: contemporary inequality in a historical context Abstract. My goal in this commentary is to complement the findings in the article on Education Inequalities by Christine Farquharson, Sandra McNally and Im

Once a refugee, always a refugee? The social construction of refugee status after resettlement

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2024.2373281

Paper in Ethnic and Racial Studies by Nuffield College Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow Molly Fee

Once a refugee, always a refugee? The social construction of refugee status after resettlement This paper examines the indelibility of refugee status through perceptions of and experiences with the refugee label. Considering how immigration status can transform from a legal classification in...

Selecting the Best: The Persistent Effects of Luckhttps://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/economics/Papers/2024/2024-W03_Drugov_Meyer_and_Moeller.pdf
Nuffield College Economics Discussion Paper by Mikhail Drugov, Nuffield Fellow Margaret Meyer and Marc Möller

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Labour will try to blame the Tories for tough spending decisions
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/12/labour-will-try-to-blame-the-tories-for-tough-spending-decisions
Nuffield College Fellow Jane Green is quoted in this Guardian article

Labour will try to blame the Tories for tough spending decisions Party leadership plans to stay in campaign mode and make sure public is aware how much ex-government has tied its hands

Relationships between Aggregates and Individual Behaviour: The Nature, Direction and Size of Aggregation Bias

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/3hrkp

SocArXiv preprint by Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow John Ermisch

Relationships between Aggregates and Individual Behaviour: The Nature, Direction and Size of Aggregation Bias Estimation of relationships between a dependent variable constructed by the aggregation of individual behaviour and aggregate independent variables such as mean income is common. The aim and contribution of the paper is to clarify when and how parameter estimates based on aggregates leads to bias an...

Income change and sympathy for right-wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.13122
Paper in British Journal of Sociology by Nuffield College student Yoav Roll and Nuffield Fellow Nan Dirk De Graaf

Income change and sympathy for right‐wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households The global rise of right-wing populist [RWP] parties presents a major political concern. RWP parties' voters tend to be citizens who have either experienced or fear economic deprivation. Income chang...

The myth of vote losses to the radical right
https://www.defacto.expert/2024/07/09/the-myth-of-vote-losses-to-the-radical-right/?lang=en
DeFacto article by Nuffield College Fellow Tarik Abou-Chadi, Daniel Bischof, Thomas Kurer and Markus Wagner

The myth of vote losses to the radical right - DeFacto 9. July 20244th July 2024The myth of vote losses to the radical rightTarik Abou-Chadi, Daniel Bischof, Thomas Kurer, Markus Wagner A key myth about social demo­cra­cy is that its decli­ne is direct­ly rela­ted to the rise of the radi­cal right across Euro­pe as a result of poli­cy choices on...

A Jumble of Partial Democratizing Initiatives in Mid-Century Latin America
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14701847.2024.2374145
Paper in Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies by Nuffield College Senior Research Fellow Laurence Whitehead

As Europe turns right, UK voters reject Conservative populism https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europe-turns-right-uk-voters-reject-conservative-populism-2024-07-05/ Nuffield College Fellow Geoffrey Evans is quoted in this Reuters news piece

As Europe turns right, UK voters reject Conservative populism The centre-left Labour Party's crushing victory in the British election stands in stark contrast to recent gains by the far right across Europe.

Communicating climate change - messages, messengers, and mechanisms with Karen Florini
https://www.crowdcast.io/c/communicating-climate-change
Joint INET Oxford and Climate Econometrics event chaired by Nuffield Senior Research Fellow David Hendry. Weds 10th July 15:00-16:00

'Communicating climate change - messages, messengers, and mechanisms' with Karen Florini Register now for 'Communicating climate change - messages, messengers, and mechanisms' with Karen Florini on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on July 10, 2024, 03:00 PM GMT+1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jjkh17AeU
Nuffield College Fellow Jane Green is interviewed on this episode of IPSOS Politics Talks podcast to give her expert opinion on the state of the race, her analysis of the polls and her take on the election campaign.

Ipsos UK Podcast: Politics Talk - An unpredictable General Election with Professor Jane Green Holly Day is joined by Professor Jane Green, Director of Nuffield College and President of the British Polling Council, to get Jane's expert opinion on the s...

Labour supply and the cost of house price booms and busts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537124000861
Paper in Labour Economics by Nuffield College Fellow Hamish Low and Virginia Sánchez-Marcos

www.sciencedirect.com

European business cycles and economic growth, 1300-2000
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001449832400038X
Paper in Explorations in Economic History by Nuffield College Fellow Stephen Broadberry and Jason Lennard

www.sciencedirect.com