The 7th Renmin University of China, Beijing & GLO Conference 2024 will take place in Beijing on 9-10 November 2024 at Renmin University of China on “Low Fertility and Population Ageing”. The event is jointly organized by the School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China and the Global Labor Organization and supported by the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE).
The full program of the meeting is available here: LINK
GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann is a co-organizer of the event and will present a keynote on on “The Economics of Fertility Revisited”. During his visit of Renmin University next week, he will meet with co-authors, Associate Editors, authors and potential authors of JOPE and will present a review of the German employment situation on November 8 at the Renmin University of ChinaEmployment Panel.
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Across the world, a well-known gender stereotype suggests that boys are better at learning mathematics than girls. Using rich data on Chinese school kids, the study demonstrates that this parental stereotype has a very strong and robust negative impact on BOTH girl and boy student wellbeing. The data also reveal that the stereotype is wrong.
Shuai Chu, Xiangquan Zeng & Klaus F. Zimmermann (2024), “Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing in China”, OPEN ACCESS Online First: Kyklos. Online Version 25 October 2024. PDF. Free to access.
ABSTRACT
A prominent gender stereotype claims that “boys are better at learning mathematics than girls.” Confronted with such a parental attitude, how does this affect the well-being of 11- to 18-year-old students in Chinese middle schools? Although well-being has often been shown to be not much gender-diverse, the intergenerational consequences of such stereotypes are not well studied. Expecting too much from boys and too little from girls might damage self-esteem among school kids. Using large survey data covering districts all over China reveals that one-quarter of the parents agree with the math stereotype. It is shown that this has strong detrimental consequences for the offspring’s well-being. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not enjoying life, and sad with no male–female differences, whereas parental education does not matter for this transfer. Various robustness tests including other than math stereotypes and an IV analysis confirm the findings. Moderating such effects, which is in line with societal objectives in many countries, not only supports gender equality but also strengthens the mental health of children.
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On the invitation of Prof. Wen Hou (University of Edinburgh Business School & Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies), GLO President Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University & FU Berlin & Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics) has visited Edinburgh/Scotland on October 13-17 to discuss research and publication issues. On October 14, both visited the hometown of Adam Smith (Kirkcaldy) and passed St Andrews University, one of the oldest universities in the world.
Hou and Zimmermann also discussed publication strategies and future research initiatives. Hou is GLO Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Zimmermann GLO President, and Senator & Section Chairperson of the Leopoldina, The German National Academy. Both are members of the Academia Europea, The Academy of Europe.
On October 15, Zimmermann spoke in a workshop in the University of Edinburgh Business School about “Publishing in Research Journals“. On October 16, he presented his research paper “Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing” at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Klaus F. Zimmermann & host Wen Hou after the event on October 16, 2024 in front of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Talk and exchange with PhD students of the University of Edinburgh at the University of Edinburgh Business School on October 15, 2024.
Left: Honoring the founder of economics in his birth town, Kirkcaldy. (In front of the Adam Smith Centre.) Right: Passing University of St Andrews while visiting the town.
The 49th EBES Conference – Athens takes place on October 16th, 17th, and 18th, 2024 in Athens, Greece. The conference is hosted by the Department of Economics, University of Piraeus and is organized in Hybrid Mode (online and in-person). GLO & EBES President Klaus F. Zimmermann provides welcome remarks and moderates a session on publishing in research journals. Conference Program.
In her inaugural lecture on October 11, 2024 at the University of Groningen, Professor Milena Nikolova explored the Economics of Happiness, tracing its historical roots and modern relevance while drawing on her research in the field.
On the occasion of the event, JOPE EditorNikolova also met with JOPE Associate EditorViola Angelini (University of Groningen) and JOPE Editor-in-Chief Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT & Maastricht University) to discuss journal business issues. JOPE invites submissions for its Collection Wellbeing and Happiness.
In 2017, Nikolova & Zimmermann had published: Nikolova, Milena, Monica Roman & Klaus F. Zimmermann. Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries. Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2017) 658–684; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2016.04.006
At the occasion of the conference, Zimmermann has met various GLO Fellows, authors and co-authors, including those who made significant contributions to the Springer Nature Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, he is editing as the Editor-in-Chief. Among those was Jo Ritzen, a colleague at UNU-MERIT & Maastricht University; Jo is a former Minister of Education of the Netherlands, a former Vice-President of the Worldbank, and a former President of Maastricht University. Ritzen & Zimmermann collaborated over the past on various research articles.
The Grote Markt, Groningen.
(c) Pjotr WieseMilena Nikolova, Klaus F. Zimmermann & Viola AngeliniKlaus F. Zimmermann & Jo Ritzen
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Visiting Halle, Germany, on September 25-27, 2024: Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences. Attending an internal meeting of Class IV – Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences and the annual Leopoldina conference (“Origin and Beginning of Life”). Klaus F. Zimmermann is a Senator of Leopoldina, and Chairperson of Section 25 “Economics and Empirical Social Sciences”. The deputy chair of Section 25, Bettina Rockenbach, was elected President of the Leopoldina during the annual conference. Congratulations!
Documenting the evolution of life during the Leopoldina Annual Conference.
25 September 2024. Stranded in Frankfurt/Main, Germany (courtesy of Deutsche Bahn): waiting for the 2.49 am train to Halle/Saale.
August 26-29, 2024: Erasmus University Rotterdam, EEA-ESEM joint conference of the Econometric Society (ESEM) and the European Economic Association (EEA). Annual Conference of the EuropeanEconomic Association (EEA). Klaus F. Zimmermann presented his paper on “Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing in China” (joint work with Shuai Chu & Xiangquan Zeng of Renmin University of China) and chaired a session. He attended various interesting sessions and spoke with many authors and colleagues about the Journal of Population Economics. EEA-ESEM 2024 has about 1,200 participants, and the event is very well organized in the impressive setting of the university. Zimmermann was at Rotterdam University before in June 2024 at ESPE 2024 and in 1986 when the European Society of Population Economics (ESPE) was created.
Christopher F. Baum, Hans Lööf, Andreas Stephan & Klaus F. Zimmermann (2024), “Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden”. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. PDFof published version. OPEN ACCESS. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00197939241261640
This article examines the wage earnings of refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer–employee data from 1990 onward, approximately 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum are compared to a matched sample of native-born workers. Employing recentered influence function (RIF) quantile regressions to wage earnings for the period 2011–2015, the occupational-task-based Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition approach shows that refugees perform better than natives at the median wage, controlling for individual and firm characteristics. This overperformance is attributable to female refugee immigrants. Given their characteristics, refugee immigrant females perform better than native females across all occupational tasks studied, including non-routine cognitive tasks. A notable similarity of the wage premium exists among various refugee groups, suggesting that cultural differences and the length of time spent in the host country do not have a major impact.
Marc Nerlove, legendary economist and econometrician, died at age 90 on July 10, 2024. He was an inspiring figure and has heavily influenced many research areas in economics and econometrics. See the Marc Nerlove Memoriam Page honoring his legacy of the Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, his last university affiliation. See also my notes in the context of celebrations around his 80th birthday.
I worked for Marc and my doctoral thesis supervisor Heinz König in the 1980s for their joint project on “Business Survey Data Analysis”. The project made categorical business test data available for innovative IO research.1,2 This gave me access to categorical data, proper econometric methods, and ideas that made a major part of my early career and population success.3
He also encouraged me to work on my thesis on “Population Economics”, bringing Gary Becker‘s ideas about family economics into the German academic debate.4
Marc brought me to the University of Pennsylvania, where I taught classes in macroeconomics and population economics as a Visiting Associate Professor during the calendar year 1988.
He also supported me creating the European Society of Population Economics (ESPE) and the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE). He was a founding member of ESPE and one of the keynote speakers of the First ESPE Congress in Rotterdam. His lecture on “Population Policy and Individual Choice” was published in the first issue of JOPE in 1988.5 The conference picture (see link) has him upper left next to R.K. von Weizsäcker. Many of the activities for the creation of ESPE and JOPE in 1988 were conducted from my Penn office close to his.
Marc Nerlove was a wonderful person, an inspiring scientist and a great colleague. Thanks & RIP.
References
(1) König, H., Nerlove, M., and Oudiz, G. (1981). On the formation of price expectations: An analysis of business test data by log-linear probability models, European Economic Review 16, 103-138.
(2) Nerlove, M. (1983). Expectations, Plans, and Realizations in Theory and Practice. Econometrica 51, 1251-1279.
(3) Zimmermann, K. F. (1997). Analysis of Business Surveys, in: M. H. Pesaran and P. Schmidt (Eds.), Handbook of Applied Econometrics, Volume II – Microeconometrics, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 407-441.
(4) Zimmermann, K. F. (1985). Familienökonomie. Theoretische und empirische Untersuchungen zur Frauenerwerbstätigkeit und Geburtenentwicklung. Springer-Verlag. Berlin. Heidelberg. New York. Tokyo.
(5) Nerlove, M. (1988). Population Policy and Individual Choice. Journal of Population Economics 1, 17–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00171508. Free to read: https://rdcu.be/dNO3b
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