@shuaichenecon
Applied & Political Econ Prof at University of Leicester, Associate of IFS, IZA & Fellow of GLO. Previously at LISER, Tilburg University, the London School of Economics, Purdue University, and Xiamen University. https://sites.google.com/view/shuaichen
Wonderful visiting & giving a seminar @uofebusiness.bsky.social Econ Dept! I talked abt gender-based violence & judge responses w/ Cai, Cheng & @emilynix100.bsky.social.
Huge thanks to @sansoneecon.bsky.social, Cecilia & @boonhankoh.bsky.social for arrangement! Great researchers & stunning campus!👇🏼
Congrats, Ashani!! 👏🏼👏🏼
After nearly 10 years since we started working on it, our paper “How natural disasters spread conflict” (with @raschky.bsky.social @yveszenou.bsky.social and Junjie Zhou) is now published in the European Economic Review 🤩
doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...
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Happening now here at @barnardcollege.bsky.social: the second incarnation of the Gender in the Global Economy Conference.
Program attached - more updates to come!
This talk (Wed, Oct 29, 10am US ET) will be livestreamed by the World Bank. Link below.
www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...
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A couple of pictures I took yesterday @theifs.bsky.social new office👇🏼🤩❤️
Thank you Laurence for sharing our working paper & for your kind words!!
I'm deeply impressed by @emilynix100.bsky.social's passion and determination to improve the wellbeing and outcomes of gender-based violence survivors, both through research and real-world impact. I've learned so much from her on this project and look forward to many future collaborations!
(12/12) These experiences underscore how critical it is to study violence & the justice system's response. If U'd like to know more details of our #NBER @nber.org WP 34345, please access via the links👇🏼👇🏼 We appreciate any feedback
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/waguu...
www.nber.org/papers/w34345
(11/12) Not able to post this thread earlier as I was assaulted & robbed by a gang & have been recovering from concussion. This's 2nd time I'v experienced #violence since moving to UK 2 yrs ago. The previous case was closed w/o charges, as the police didn't pursue further action.
(10/12) Heterogeneity analyses indicate that the #MeToo effect was primarily driven by judges who exhibited a lower propensity to grant divorces before the movement, concentrated in cases involving children, and more pronounced in regions with gender-progressive attitudes.
(9/12) We also estimate a simpler DiD specification, comparing female judges' grant rates for DV cases for female vs male plaintiffs after vs before #MeToo (and similarly for male judges). This reveals a significant increase in DV divorce petitions granted by female judges only
(8/12) Event studies reveal flat pre-trends and a jump in the year the movement occurs. To rule out alternative explanations, such as some other shock affecting female judge rulings around the same time, we estimate the impacts on grant rates for divorce petitions w/o DV.
(7/12) 1st estimates of a triple-difference design comparing female to male judges for female vs male plaintiffs after vs before #MeToo confirm conditional raw means & demonstrate female judges' grant rates for DV divorce cases increase relative to male judges following #MeToo.
(6/12) Plotting conditional average divorce grant rates separately for male and female judges reveals an uptick in divorce grants for female judges just after #MeToo, but no impact for male judges.
(5/12) We use a series of event studies and difference-in-differences (DiD) designs to estimate whether the #MeToo social movement changed judges' views such that they were more likely to grant divorces to female petitioners suffering from domestic violence.
(4/12) To carry out our analysis, we collected all publicly available divorce cases seen by judges in China from 2017-2019, before and after #MeToo in China. Using natural language processing, we extract key characteristics of the cases from publicly posted written descriptions.
(3/12) The #MeToo movement in China spurred a national awareness of the prevalence and costs of gender-based violence and harassment. This movement was sudden and unexpected, and was particularly salient for women across China.
(2/12) In China, only 37% of divorce petitions citing domestic violence (DV) are granted, with evidence suggesting judges often prioritize preserving marriages even in cases of abuse. We investigate whether judicial rulings in DV cases are malleable by #MeToo social movement.
🚨New Working Paper🚨
(1/12) W/ amazing Xiqian Cai, Zhengquan Cheng & @emilynix100.bsky.social, we've written a new paper
Gender-Based Violence and Judge Responses
to study whether judicial rulings shift in response to broader social change
@uniofleicester.bsky.social @usc.edu @marshall.usc.edu
In China, only 37 percent of domestic violence divorce petitions succeed. After the #MeToo movement, female judges became percentage points more likely to grant them—showing judicial responses are malleable, from Xiqian Cai, @shuaichenecon.bsky.social, Cheng, and Nix www.nber.org/papers/w34345
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🚨Davide Cipullo, Tommaso Colussi, Domenico Rossignoli and I are excited to open the call for the 2nd UniCatt Political Economy workshop! We have 2 great keynotes: Alessandra Casella and David Yanagizawa-Drott. Send us your papers (theory or empirics) and let us meet in Milano on December 18.
𝔼𝕚𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟 & 𝕊𝕒𝕜𝕒 (𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟝) 𝔹𝕚𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝔻𝕒𝕥𝕒𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕖
sites.google.com/site/orkunsa...
International economics/finance/relations scholars obsessed with dyadic relationships and gravity estimations: check this brand new dataset from our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper with @b-eichengreen.bsky.social !
FYI: These chapters have been published as the @nber.org Working Papers and accessible via www.nber.org/papers?facet...
Loving the new Handbook of Culture & Economic Behavior (Benjamin Enke, Paola Giuliano, @nathannunn.bsky.social, Leonard Wantchekon)--fantastic work! Grateful to the editors & authors for the insightful, well-structured chapters. As a cultural/political economy fan, I've found it enriching&inspiring!
Very happy to see that this paper is published online at the Journal of Population Economics.
Link to the Open Access article 👇🏼
doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Very happy to see that this paper is published online at the Journal of Population Economics.
Link to the Open Access article 👇🏼
doi.org/10.1007/s001...
Saw the photos online from my Alma Mater—Xiamen University, and would like to share them here ❤️❤️
#WomensDay2025 (tomorrow)
I put together an overview of recent developments in the literature on gender-based violence for @AEAjournals
There's enough material for 2x 1.5hr lectures. I've covered the material in labor & gender economics classes
I hope they can be helpful!
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ea7v9...