María Hernández-de-Benito

Applied micro, development, gender, inclusion.
At CUNEF (@CUNEF), Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET)

#firstgen #feminist

[María Hernández-de-Benito @MariaHdzdB]

⭐️Send your papers to the Spanish Development Workshop (SPANDE)! This year organized by the Development team at the great Alicante Economics Department!

[Teresa Molina-Millán @teremolin]

📣 #CallForPapers 📣
The Spanish Network of Development Economists (SPANDE) is organizing the 4th Workshop on Development Economics in Spain at the Universidad de Alicante☀️

📅 October 26–27, 2026
⏰ Submission deadline: June 20
🗣️ Keynote speakers: @cbatista_econ @HjortJ

[María Hernández-de-Benito @MariaHdzdB]

🚨New Working Paper! What survives when a successful education pilot becomes a government program? Excited to finally share this after all the hard work! 👇👇

[Claudia Hupkau @claudiahupkau]

New Discussion Paper!! 📰

Can effective tutoring programs survive being scaled up by governments with different staff, no researcher oversight of the implementation, and real budget constraints? We ran an RCT in Spain to find out. Short answer: yes, but with caveats.

[Paula Estaca Abellán @paulaestaca]

Aprovechando el boom de San Isidro, la tradición y el neocasticismo en Madrid y como mucha gente no entiende como hemos llegado hasta aquí ni la relación de los madrileños con sus fiestas voy con él hilo definitivo para entender que pasa con las verbenas y los chulapos

[María Hernández-de-Benito @MariaHdzdB]

Congrats @jorgeghombrados and the rest of the team!! Super cool and policy-relevant paper 👇👇

[Jorge Garcia Hombrados @jorgeghombrados]

This paper has been in my head for years. From my time at 3ie and JPAL, wondering why the evidence we produce as researchers so often fails to translate into policy, and what role ideology plays. Very happy to see it now published in the @AEAjournals. Let me tell you the story 🧵

[Jessica Leight @leightjessica]

A fascinating paper about the evidence to policy pipeline from @jorgeghombrados + a large team (he was a cool young researcher! You heard it here first)

Bonus points: the policy recommendation involves updating Wikipedia. I love this

[Ángel Martínez @amjorge15]

Bueno, pues aquí tenéis el que es mi primer (y probablemente último) paper. Un trabajo de años mano a mano con @jorgeghombrados y el resto de coautores, para mostrar los sesgos en la implementación de políticas públicas, con un experimento a miles de alcaldes españoles.

[María Hernández-de-Benito @MariaHdzdB]

Hoy en @nadaesgratis presentamos la Spanish Network of Development Economists (SPANDE) 👇👇

[Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis]

La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española https://t.co/waqwW72VYx Vía @nadaesgratis #Economía

[Carla Mouriño @CarlaMourinho]

Cuánta gente hemos salido hoy de casa con los auriculares con Berghain a todo volumen y de repente el mundo parecía una pintura estoy obsesionada perdón!!!

[María Hernández-de-Benito @MariaHdzdB]

👇👇👇 This week we hosted a great policy event discussing the importance of impact evaluation at @CUNEF and a wonderful third Spanish development academic workshop at @FundacionAreces . Stay tuned!

[Jorge Garcia Hombrados @jorgeghombrados]

A great week for the Spanish Network in Development Economics (#SPANDE)

On Tuesday, we met at @CUNEF with policy makers from NGOs and Spanish Cooperation Evaluation Office to discuss how to strengthen impact evaluation. Fantastic discussions and new collaboration opportunities.

[Jessica Leight @leightjessica]

@DaveEvansPhD Will put in a plug for this cool paper that analyzes patterns of daughter versus son preference across SSA, incl comparing patrilineal + matrilineal areas, from @GGenicot @MariaHdzdB
https://t.co/b0DRTASh8Q

[Jorge Garcia Hombrados @jorgeghombrados]

📢 Este 21 de octubre organizamos en @CUNEF un taller sobre cooperación al desarrollo basada en evidencia para reflexionar sobre las necesidades de evaluación en la cooperación al desarrollo española y explorar vías de colaboración entre academia y agentes de cooperación. 1/N

[Jorge Garcia Hombrados @jorgeghombrados]

.@MariaHdzdB and I are excited to share the program of the III Spanish Workshop on Development Economics, at @FundacionAreces on October 21–22 in autumnal Madrid.

Check the amazing line-up and stellar keynotes by Sylvie Lambert (PSE) and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (U Chicago).

[Jessica Leight @leightjessica]

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @teremolin
@DepartamentoFAE who works on topics including education, health + social protection

[Jorge Garcia Hombrados @jorgeghombrados]

Deadline: June 15th. Submit your best development econ paper and join us in beautiful autumnal Madrid!

[Garance Genicot @GGenicot]

✨ Just out on @voxdev.bsky.social: our blog on firstborn daughters, son preference, and family dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa — co-authored with @MariaHdzdB Take a look 👇👇👇

[Víctor M. Gómez Blanco @victormgomez89]

🧵 ¿Sirve la historia económica para entender el presente? Sí, y cada vez más.
@GalofreVila y yo analizamos 25 años de publicaciones en las top-5 del campo usando análisis de redes y NLP.
Descubre lo que revela el análisis en este post de @nadaesgratis https://t.co/ibH8FmDVuo 1/

[María Hernández-de-Benito @MariaHdzdB]

Check out our blog post at @vox_dev on son preference and family structure with @GGenicot 👇👇

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 The hidden cost of a firstborn daughter in Africa

Today on VoxDev, @GGenicot (@GCER_Georgetown @Georgetown) & @MariaHdzdB (@CUNEF) discuss the impact of a firstborn daughter on the trajectory of a woman's life: https://t.co/UWHY2qzQTM

[Jorge Garcia Hombrados @jorgeghombrados]

🚨 The call for the III Spanish Workshop on Development Economics is out!
Organized by the Spanish Network of Development Economists (SPANDE) and hosted by @FundacionAreces on Oct 21–22 in Madrid.

Keynotes: Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra (UChicago) & Sylvie Lambert (PSE). 1/2

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

Dear followers, please see my bad-case scenario for where the US economy may be heading in the Financial Times
The real threat to American prosperity via @FT
https://t.co/PjpGgYbaIL

[María Hernández-de-Benito @MariaHdzdB]

@victormgomez89 Enhorabuena!!