Alessandra Cassar

Econ Lab Without Borders

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

A TedX talk summarizing years of research with great collaborators:
https://t.co/bTvjHlvqHA

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@mirandainez @CarnegieMellon Congratulations Miranda!!!!

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@JamesMartinSJ Amen Father James Martin! Greeting from Jesuit USF where social justice still inspires our teaching.

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@elonmusk @JeffBezos One businessman who did it “right”and could be an inspiration to both @elonmusk and @JeffBezos is AP Giannini, the founder of Bank of America, who invented microfinance and contributed to the prosperity of millions: an incredible story: https://t.co/qtxfdsxnPi

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 Two decades on: The enduring costs of childhood abduction for women in Uganda Today on VoxDev w/

@Cassar_Ale (@USF_Economics), Eeshani Kandpal (@CGDev), @mirandainez (@tamuecon), Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu (@Makerere) & @danilaserra_eco (@tamuecon): https://t.co/M4m22nxkKB

[PNAS Nexus @PNASNexus]

Behavioral and experimental economist @Cassar_Ale shares a multicountry study showing heat stress has little impact on prosocial behavior or decision-making—gender & culture matter more.

In NautilusMag: https://t.co/HgGHIs5Bz4
In PNAS Nexus: https://t.co/7xhULnCsrO

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

Over 20 years after the end of the conflict, women that have been abducted as girls are still displaying symptoms of depression and higher stress response. Childhood “adversities” (this gotta be one of the worse) leave profound psychological marks, but also surprising grit.

[Danila Serra @danilaserra_eco]

📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣

➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @mirandainez @Cassar_Ale @eeshani

https://t.co/9ZhxuC0S2T

[Faculti @FacultiNet]

In this groundbreaking study, researchers explore how allomaternal care—child-rearing by non-maternal figures—shapes the roots of human cooperation. @Cassar_Ale , @usfca , @USF_Economics , discusses: https://t.co/PcPS4TTkcd
#ECONOMICS

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@_alice_evans @TEDTalks Do you have the date?

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@jbsilk1 @heidiColleran … the economist in me would suggest to outsource all the non-kid-mattering but necessary tasks: laundry, shuttling to activities, grocery shopping, house cleaning, etc… Even if it is costly, it is only for a while and well worth the time it frees up for you to write.

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@jbsilk1 @heidiColleran … and then you will be terribly sad when they leave the nest. When they are little, it is hard physically but emotionally is rich and wonderful. If you can afford it, hire a college student to help a bit… if you can scrounge 3 hours at a time of focused writing, it’s plenty.

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@Kenbergerum @OCEAN_OKState @JaimieKrems Congratulations!!!!!!! I loved how the article said the award was “roughly” $599.00 … ahhhhaaa (economic humor). So well deserved and I cannot wait to see the research that will come out of this grant!

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@ed_hagen ... one aha moment was when I split the sample in two: women who reported having conflict with their partner and those who did not. All the significance of depression>cooperation was in the sample of those that had conflict!!! This tells the diff. from other diseases (eg malaria)

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@ed_hagen Behavioral economics really needs to be grounded in solid evolutionary psych roots or risks modeling a human that never existed. Maybe an AI robot. But not us.

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

@ed_hagen Thanks!!! Also, besides your answers, I would add a third reason: it is truly multidisciplinary work! If an idea is capturing some truthful stuff, there should be fingerprints visible across disciplines and methods.

[Ed Hagen @ed_hagen]

Why do I like this paper so much?🤔From @Cassar_Ale et al. https://t.co/XmVJMhQb2S

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

friends) generally provide substantial help but do not react at the depression threshold. Overall, our findings provide some evidence in favor of the bargaining hypothesis for maternal depression.

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

So excited that this paper is finally out! It is a new installment in a series looking at female adaptive strategies (mainly unconcious and painful stuff, but still helpful for mamas to secure the support they need to bring babies to maturity).
https://t.co/6ETaTAw7yL

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

especially the baby's father. Others who show a positive reaction include the woman's mother (maternal grandmother), father (maternal grandfather), and, to a minor extent, father-in-law (paternal grandfather), and cousins. Unrelated but physically close individuals (neighbors and

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

depression on different types of support (instrumental, informational, emotional, economic) a mother receives from kin, affines, and unrelated individuals. The results indicate that mothers at the threshold of depression obtain increased help from several individuals,

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

and find that a perceived lack of support, especially from the baby's father, is linked to a higher risk of depression in the mother. Moreover, we employ a quasi-experimental strategy to analyze the lesser-studied direction of the causality and estimate the effect of perinatal

[Alessandra Cassar @Cassar_Ale]

This study investigates the hypothesis that perinatal depression could function as a catalyst for a mother to elicit cooperation from others in times of need (Hagen, 2002). We analyze data on social support and depression from 292 women in Uganda around the time of giving birth