📢 Autonomous schools (UK: academies , US: charter schools; Sweden: free schools)
Do they really improve education? 📚
@NatalieIrmert@JBietenbeck@linnmatti@FelixWeinhardt@CEP_LSE see greater inequality and no educational improvement
https://t.co/veGFvXIg26
“Rather than leading to ‘a rising tide that lifts all boats,’ autonomous schools increase existing achievement gaps by SES and immigrant status.”
@NatalieIrmert@JBietenbeck@linnmatti and @FelixWeinhardt
Read: https://t.co/Jm1YbX4YPD
This project combines state-of-the-art econ methods with novel hydrological spatial analysis. It has taught us much about, and generated policy relevant insights, on the under-discussed burden of waterborne diseases. Cant wait to hear what you all on #econtwitter think!
What great global challenges remain in preventative medicine? How are African children burdened by environmental factors? Will urbanisation + climate change lessen or improve such costs?
This and much more is discussed in @SteveBerggreen JMP, (coauthored with me!)🧵⬇️
🚨Very excited to share my Job Market Paper:
“The Curse of Bad Geography: Stagnant Water, Diseases, and Children’s Human Capital”
(w/ @linnmatti) #EconTwitter
➡️Full draft at: https://t.co/U4RScOrPLW
A🧵on key takeaways (1/10)👇
🚨Very excited to share my Job Market Paper:
“The Curse of Bad Geography: Stagnant Water, Diseases, and Children’s Human Capital”
(w/ @linnmatti) #EconTwitter
➡️Full draft at: https://t.co/U4RScOrPLW
A🧵on key takeaways (1/10)👇
Very grateful to get to present my JMP (w/ @linnmatti) at #NEUDC2023@HarvardCID. Thanks to the organizers, to @AllanHsiao for a great discussion, for the privilege of discussing @elitzow's work on lead exposure and children's learning, and to participants for great comments!
Yep that's me! Thank you to my amazing advisors @JBietenbeck@LEllegard@PetterLundborg , and a hundred other people. Grateful for the brilliant people I've met and times had at Lund Econ🤍
Today we congratulate Linn Mattisson, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation: Essays on the effect of health care and the environment on health
@linnmatti @Lunduni_LUSEM
More about the research on our public outreach page: https://t.co/dQzPsG3Zfh