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1782491881 | GLP-1 drugs increase women's marriage and employment rates | https://hu-my.sharepoint.com/personal/rdiamond_fas_harvard_e... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486886701783008484 | GLP-1's help women find work, and men to leave their partners | https://www.ft.com/content/a7a9bfbf-9743-473b-897f-6a91ad3fa... |…
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One of my favorite examples of this is a transgender woman who worked at Subway (sandwich shop) and wrote about her experience on reddit. Someone posed a question on reddit that was something like "people who have transitioned, how did others treat you differently after the fact." I interpreted the question as how did friends and family react…
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The article has a bunch of speculation that’s not in the paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35387/w353...One key point:> Nor do I find evidence of upward job mobility among incumbent workers. Already-employed women do not increase hours, income per household member, or job-to-job moves. If anything, employer changes decline…
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There is a persistent bias, in general and online, against any claim that one's job prospects, social status, overall life satisfaction is dependent on the way people treat you specifically due to your physical appearance. I think this bias has worsened in the recent decade due to how emphatically the affirmative claim is espoused by the…
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This has been the case for a long time, even with attributes that you have far less control over, such as your height [1]. Given typical social prejudices, I would not be surprised if the height effect was greater for men and the weight effect was greater for women.GLP-1 drugs seem to provide a (relatively) painless way to control the weight…
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The original paper is quite readable and interesting in how the researcher works through a number of alternative hypotheses.https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35387/w353...An tangential part of the paper is partnered men: Among baseline partnered men (which is where partnership dissolution is well-defined), I find a 6.8pp increase…
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I think there's a lot of just-world fallacy going around re: how I keep running across the following pattern online now that GLP-1RA drugs exist.Commenter A (esp. often a woman, though of any age): I lost a lot of weight and people treat me radically better. I did not change my behavior in a way that explains this; it seems like stigma /…
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Why take drugs when you can take home-delivery diet?This is genuine question, I've started using them and they're one of the best things I've ever paid for.You get good food, at calculated sizes/calories/etc etc, you don't have to do shopping, cooking, cleaning, etc.It is insanely convenient and you can manage your weight easily without even any…
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I think people often tend to treat drastic deviations from standard appearance as an indicator for undesirable character traits.If you are badly groomed as a man, you tend to be perceived as careless.In my experience if you are obese, people think you lack will power and discipline.Changing how people view you for the better always has an…
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Mild counterpoint: a friend of mine, a professional woman, started on GLP-1 drugs some time ago. She has lost weight, but she also says she's had significant cognitive improvements, more focus, better sleep, etc. It would be great to have research which explicitly teases out these various effects.