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Federal Reserve: How Peer Influence More Than Doubles Odds of Feminine Pronoun Use in Economics (Explained)
This episode explores a Federal Reserve working paper that analyzes how cultural change, specifically regarding gendered pronoun use, spread within economic theory from 1970 to 2019. The research reveals that peer influence is a powerful driver: when an author’s peers shift from 20% to 70% feminine-only pronoun use, the author’s odds of adopting the feminine form more than double. This study explains how social networks and co-authorship dynamics accelerate norm evolution in academic writing. This episode explains a real academic paper in plain English for a general audience. Source paper…
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