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Cool! Would be very curious to see the difference in men vs women as a function of the country’s gender equality (probably there is some index from v-dem or something)

My main theory in the paper is about two aspects of labor markets having differential effects on young women & men & thus the gap between their politics. I have a control for the UN's gender inequality index but I haven't yet separately regressed the gender gap on this gender inequality -- I should!

excited to be presenting this work in progress, "Not All Young Men: Labor Market Structures and the Political Gender Gap among Young People," at a cool panel at EPSS in a few weeks

Very cool! Looking forward to meeting you again in Belfast, Amelia!!

Yes very much looking forward to seeing you again! Would love to grab a coffee or tea with you

Very interesting work! What caught my attention are the differences between the (usually so similar) Nordic countries.

> Dif in ideology (id=standardized by country) Is this self-id Left(0)-Right(1)? (My (unreliable) recollection is that this is the only measure across all ESS/CSES).

Yes it's self-IDed left-right (0-10), which I standardize within country. What I'm interested in comparing cross-nationally is the extent of the within-country gap, not the absolute left-right placements. I agree that those would be much harder to interpret as generalizing between dif countries

So I think it makes sense to relativise it to the country/population at that moment - both theoretically and for methodological convenience.

I get that anything else (.e.g BES al_scale/lr_scale) is rarely so widely available/it's own project to infer ... but I can't help but note that what the public view as Left/Right is - not unreasonably - dependent on what the major Left/Right parties are doing/positioning themselves at that moment.