Iran entered the new year with its people cut off from the world for over 500 hours without internet. No connection, no access to information and no voice. Access to information is a basic human right not a privilege.
#DigitalBlackoutIran
Forthcoming in the AJAE: "SNAP Enrollment Cycles: New Insights from Heterogeneous Panel Models with Cross-Sectional Dependence," by Pourya Valizadeh, Bart Fischer, and Henry Bryant
Please check out our new paper in JOHS:
We identify and calculate the relative contribution of social, institutional, economic, and environmental circumstances that contribute to explaining LS above and beyond individuals' characteristics:
https://t.co/IOuzC0K56D
Which countries are ahead when it comes to integrating #wellbeing into policy?
Here is a nice word cloud based on a poll from this #BeyondGDP I'm watching - New Zealand are storming it.
Trying to stay calm, but I'm 7 days away from not being able to work in the US.
I'm a tenured professor at a major university and the US government is pushing me over the brink.
Been waiting for 3 mo (instead of 2d) for the US govt to *print* my already approved work permit.
Hey fellow profs of #AcademicTwitter and #EconTwitter:
Please stop scrolling and write to your chair/dean/prez/whoever is your boss and ask what *you* and *they* can do to counter this madness!
No “thoughts and prayers”!! Let’s get on it.
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All new and upcoming NBER Working Papers relating to the coronavirus are to be available free of charge, including three new papers released this week: https://t.co/iPSJgjOpcA, https://t.co/s0FxI2p4cX, and https://t.co/hzKYIG7mZV
Why #wellbeing matters to your staff and FIVE ways you can improve it.
Latest on Oxford Answers from @jedeneve - Director of @OxWellResearch
https://t.co/bU5Tt6C4hF
Randomised controlled trial finds 8-week Exploring What Matters course from @actionhappiness raises participants' life satisfaction score from average 6.4 on a 0-10 scale to 7.4 https://t.co/jdTBufhaFd
New research shows an 8-week happiness course can raise your life satisfaction by more than getting a long-term partner or finding employment. Paper by Christian Krekel @jedeneve@Daisy_Fancourt and Richard Layard #wellbeing#happiness https://t.co/n5EBT9gUIv
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@jonathaneyer AgEcon programs support some good policy evaluation studies in agriculture and if he changed his mind along the way, AgEcon departments are so multidisciplinary that can offer good alternative field of studies within the same department.