🏅 Well deserved recognition goes to @nataliacarralero.bsky.social, runner-up for her paper “Increasing paternity leave: Impacts on fertility and labour market outcomes.”

🥇 Congratulations to @ntsiful-enoch.bsky.social on winning the Best Paper Award at the PhD in Economics Workshop 2025 for his outstanding academic paper “Refrigeration, Diets, and Human Health: Evidence from Ghana.” Well done!

🟥 Meet our #EconomicsJobMarket Candidate 🟥 🔈 Alejandra Paz Rivera Vicencio (@alejandrapazrivera.bsky.social#EconomicsJobMarket  🔎 Research fields: Health Economics, Environmental Economics & Policy Evaluation. 📝 Paper: "Heatwaves and Health at Birth"  🧵👇

🟥 Meet our #EconomicsJobMarket Candidate 🟥  🔈 Daniel Favre de Noguera (@favredenoguera.bsky.social#EconomicsJobMarket 🔎 Research fields: Political Economy, Enviromental Economics, and Public Economics. 📝  Paper: “Do Far-Right Mayors Affect Environmental Policies? Evidence from Italian Municipalities”

📢#JobMarket Paper by Alejandra Rivera: 📑 "Heatwaves and Health at Birth" 🔹This paper studies how extreme heat during pregnancy affects birth outcomes in Spain. @assameeting.bsky.social @mfeliu.bsky.social @ub.edu @juditvall.bsky.social 🧵👇🏼

🆕 Meet our 2025-2026 PhD #JobMarket Candidates! 🔺 @favredenoguera.bsky.social#JobMarket🔺 Alejandra Paz Rivera Vicencio 🔺 Julia McGee 🔺 Alyvia McTague Learn more about their profiles, including their research fields, and job market papers ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/zlktxlzgen

🗓️ On Monday, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Albrecht Glitz (@upf.edu & Barcelona School of Economics) for BESTEPS Lecture 4, “Crafting the Job Market Paper.”

📢#JobMarket Paper by @favredenoguera.bsky.social: 📑 "Do far-right mayors affect environmental policies? Evidence from Italian Municipalities" 🔹This paper examines how far-right municipal governments in Italy affect local environmental policy @assameeting.bsky.social @matteogamalerio.bsky.social 🧵👇🏼

📢#JobMarket Paper by Julia McGee: 📑 "Big Apple, Small Shops?" 🔹This paper studies the effects of a 2012 New York City policy limiting storefront size on business composition and property values @assameeting.bsky.social @mfeliu.bsky.social @ub.edu @eviladecans.bsky.social @rosasanchisg.bsky.social

📣Hi #EconSky! I am on the job market! 📣 My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓 The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑‍🧒‍🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮. For more: sevinkaytan.com

Despite decades of progress toward gender equal labour markets, parenthood remains a key turning point deepening inequalities. What are the causes? 📝Our latest opinion piece studied how parenthood affects parents' employment and the extent to which it is shaped by social norms. Read more 👇

My junior team is the best thing I have ongoing in academia... Two of them have successfully defended their thesis this month: @samuellado.bsky.social two weeks ago and Pablo Brugarolas today. We have celebrated both achievements today and even "escaped a room"! #workhardplayhard #academia #PhDlife

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Our latest paper by Sara Ayllón and Natalia Carralero (Universitat de Girona) studies to which extent gender norms influence different job characteristics that mothers and fathers have across 31 European countries. 💡learn more: paths2include.eu/publications... #PATHS2INCLUDE

¿Menos es más en la #EducaciónInfantil? 🧸📚 La doctoranda del IEB @annachesa.bsky.social, analiza en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social el impacto de la ley educativa de 2006 en las escuelas infantiles en España, parte de su investigación de doctorado.     Lee el artículo 👇

📚 Introducing the new Applied Economics #ReadingGroup! Organized by the IEB & @ub.edu’s Public Economics Section, this spring we explored: 📌 Baseline Regression Discontinuity 📌 Recent RD developments 📌 Difference‑in‑Discontinuities 🧵👇

✏️ @ayllonsara.bsky.social (@univgirona.bsky.edu) i Camila Zamora (@ecapuab.bsky.social) ens presenten un estudi que posa de manifest els biaixos de gènere dels alumnes a l’hora de valorar la docència. Un experiment aleatoritzat dut a terme a Catalunya ho demostra. www.5centims.cat/biaixos-en-l...

💡Rethink #Fertility and #Gender #Inequality in a Changing World💡Recap of the “Gender Inequalities, Fertility, and the Future of Family Demography: Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” conference @mpidr.bsky.social. Read all about the highlights here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

☕Since January, we've been enjoying vibrant discussions around the research ideas of our Economics PhD candidates and visitors, through our Research Ideas Coffee Talk series.  Huge thanks to our series organizers, @mengweilin.bsky.social and @favredenoguera.bsky.social, for making this happen!👇🏼🧵

📢 Applied Lunch Seminar Alert! Join us for a talk by Natalia Carralero (@nataliacarralero.bsky.social) from UB on Increasing Paternity Leave: Impacts on Fertility and Labour Market Outcomes. 📅 March 25, 2025 🕜 13:30 📍 Seminari A #economics #labourmarket #paternityleave

Last week, I had the opportunity to present my and @ayllonsara.bsky.social's ongoing work on the effects of different paternity leave reforms in Spain at #GIF2025. A huge thanks to the organizers at @mpidr.bsky.social. I had an amazing time learning from all of you!

🆕Conference"Gender Inequalities, Fertility & the Future of Family Demography:Intersectionality in an Era of Family Complexity” kicked off @mpidr.bsky.social!Researchers from around the🌏are engaging into discussions on how gender inequalities shape fertility, families, & demographic change. #GIF2025

📣Last Monday, we welcomed Antonio Cabrales for the BESTEPS Opening Lecture, "Workflows of Economic Research." With a full room and an engaged audience, he delivered an inspiring talk on the key stages of the research process blending principles, exercises, and examples of personal experiences🧵👇🏼

☕Yesterday, we concluded the final session of this season's PhD Economics Ideas Coffee Talk series! 💬 Since September, we had the pleasure of enjoying fantastic discussions on the research ideas of our PhD Candidates, who explored various fields🧵👇🏼

🎯JOB ALERT!🎯 I am looking for a RA to work with me and my team on several projects. You should be interested in poverty in developed economies, labour, gender or meta-analysis.