Pink and Blue

Staying In--Saturday, 2/13/16

Here's a cold weather layering formula for you--button up shirt, sweatshirt, puffy vest, jeans, ankle boots.

From bluecollarredlipstick.com

When I was first putting this outfit together, I wasn't sure what button up shirt I'd end up wearing.  But that got decided for me when I bought this cobalt blue button up during a Goodwill trip with my mom at Christmas.  
 

Leopard sweatshirt (JNY), $6.00/wear
*Cobalt blue button up shirt (thrifted, JCP), $4.99/wear+
Bright pink puffy vest (thrifted, Casual Corner), $0.50/wear
Black jeans (thrifted, NYDJ), $1.88/wear
Black ankle boots by Sam Edelman, $3.18/wear

Outfit total: $16.55/wear

Adina wore her favorite sweatshirt, and since my favorite (the giant Kate/Leo hoodie) won't work in this context, I used this snazzy navy blue leopard number.  (Hers has cropped torso, mine has cropped sleeves--it's all good.)  Mixed with cobalt blue and bright pink, this is a punchy rejoinder to a dreary winter day.  Or a sunny day, if things go that way.  I mean, really, you can't go wrong with bright pink and blue no matter the weather or season.

In other news...Harvard Business Review covers a study showing that female economists who collaborate on papers are less likely to get tenure than when they publish solo papers, but there is no effect of solo vs. coauthored papers on tenure for men.  The thinking is that when it is unclear who contributed what to a joint work project, people assume that women contribute less than men and so they get less credit.  (And for a bonus, see the nice visualization showing the interaction--how the solo vs joint authorship matters for women but not for men.)  Luckily, the female PhD economics student is publishing this as a solo paper :)

Note to economics journals:  In addition to it being flat out stupid that y'all use different style rules, bibliography formats, etc., from each other, is there any reason you don't follow the common practice in the other social sciences of listing authors by their degree of contribution?  The paper found that female sociologists (who work in a field where first authorship indicates that you are the primary author of the paper/the major contributor, like psychology does) do not suffer the same collaboration penalty that female economists do.  (Though Robert pointed out that sociology is probably a field with less bias against women than economics.)