🚨 Our new working paper is out👇 We explore male backlash to female empowerment and how policies can help mitigate it. Proud to collaborate with @sarthak_joshi (who's on the job market!), Joe Vecci and @jtalbotjones
Hi #EconTwitter! I'm on the #EconJobMarket and happy to share my #JMP "The Impact of Weather Shocks on the Effectiveness of Child Marriage Bans"
Laws banning child marriage often fall short outside urban areas. I show that economic shocks explain the limited impact of these bans
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Looking forward to reading this:
"Justice for all? The impact of legal aid in India" by Nitin Kumar Bharti and Jonathan Lehne
(Bharti is on the job market!)
https://t.co/vHRfWXP2pK
Wanted to do a summary 🧵 on this cool new paper by
@AletheiaDonald@markusgold as seen recently @voxdev. tl; dr: interventions enhancing women's earnings + wealth in SSA can ⬆️ fertility
https://t.co/oOtb3PKpTT
https://t.co/6Ne7K7GVeX
Are sexual predators ostracised?
Does US academic punish professors for sexual misconduct??
https://t.co/kc8cjsZe6Y
New paper by @Rainer_Widmann1 & co-authors
Puisqu'il est question de liste depuis hier, en voilà une de @Histoirecoloni1 qui devrait faire honte à la 🇨🇵, à ces patriotes qui chantent sa gloire à longueur de journée et à ce gouvernement qui a choisi de les caresser dans le sens du poil #kanaky
https://t.co/6ow0CBj8Hr
"Residents of regions trapped in a cycle of low #employment, poor #productivity, and slow #growth, compared to their past performance and that of their country and European peers, are increasingly leaning towards #Euroscepticism".
https://t.co/ahNazVvQe7
https://t.co/9DN1lIqrcn
Interested in horizontal cultural transmission? Please check out the lead article in the latest @JEEA_News issue: https://t.co/74JszLxV9L! We use Stalin’s deportations to show that gender norms diffused from ethnic deportees to locals in Siberia and Central Asia! #EconTwitter
We are very excited to share that @FrankSchilbach, Gautam Rao and I are run a special issue at Journal of Development Economics on a very important topic, “Mental Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes”! Deadline: 01/30/2025. Thank you @afosterri! #economics
https://t.co/1wgLjTQHZU
"Anti-Muslim Voting and Media Coverage of Immigrant Crimes." In the March 2024 issue of REStat by Mathieu Couttenier, Sophie Hatte, Mathias Thoenig, and Stephanos Vlachos. https://t.co/2BKryCcMvu
I am glad to share the Customary Atlas of Ancien Régime France joint with @gobbi_paula and Marc Goñi out in Explorations
Voltaire claimed there were 144 customs with the force of law. He was close! We find 141
Paper👉https://t.co/ySw5gWgkrD
Data👉https://t.co/xRCQwitHy5
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🆕 Brain drain vs brain gain: Does international migration deplete poor countries of skilled workers?
Today on VoxDev, @pabarcar@MathematicaNow & @ctheoharides@amherstcollege outline their research on the migration of nurses from the Philippines: https://t.co/pqipEkOD19
I agree w/ many of these critiques: We need to be much more careful about ethics
* We need ++ consideration of the harms v. benefits to participants, local ownership, alignment w/ national priorities etc.
But, these are not unique to RCTs ~ why make them [always] the focus?
📢Public Event📢
Join us on March 13th to discuss frontier research and practices to combat gender inequalities in the workplace! 📍6pm Wolfson Theatre, LSE, London!
https://t.co/pGNiZkGzG0
We are hiring several post docs @UNamur and @UCLouvain_be to work on the role of identity in economics.
Please apply here: https://t.co/VEymheFrLR
This is a short deadline: applications until March 15.
🚨📢 I’m delighted and proud to share our new @Nature paper “Online Images Amplify Gender Bias” https://t.co/tilMResZCX What better day than Valentine’s Day to learn about gender stereotypes?🩷A thread 🧵
Underutilized crops, such as #millets, can play a key role in sustainable #foodsystems. 🌱 🌍
Learn how millet production can help improve the nutrition, sustainability and livelihoods of farmers in Asia in this piece from @IFPRI ➡️ https://t.co/qT8add0HdE
Are you working on the interactions between risks, social protection systems and climate change?
This call for papers may be of interest to you: https://t.co/jtbiWw9L1Q
with Elsa Gautrain and Hamidou Diallo