✨Thrilled to kick off the seminar season 25/26 w/ a keynote at the U of Trento -Workshop on Socio-Emotional Skills! Spoke on: 📊Measuring children’s socio-emotional skills 💡New tools 🤖AI for scale & new frontiers Tx++ to organizers @danipiazz.bsky.social @lucapiccoli.bsky.social L Mangiavacchi 🙌🏻

✨Thrilled to kick off the seminar season 25/26 w/ a keynote at the U of Trento -Workshop on Socio-Emotional Skills! Spoke on: 📊Measuring children’s socio-emotional skills 💡New tools 🤖AI for scale & new frontiers Tx++ to organizers @danipiazz.bsky.social @lucapiccoli.bsky.social L Mangiavacchi 🙌🏻

Thanks so much ‪@gabriconti.bsky.social‬! Very excited to start this new chapter 😄

I’ve reached #10,000 #citations on #Google #Scholar! 🤯 scholar.google.com/citations?us... Feeling proud, grateful, and motivated. Thank you to the mentors, co-authors, and students who’ve shaped this journey with me. Onward! 🚀 #10K #Citations #ResearchImpact #Gratitude #Scholarship

📢I am v happy to share that Fatima Najeeb has joined the G-Lab @ucleconomics.bsky.social as Research Fellow from @univofmaryland.bsky.social! 🔴She will work w/ me & E. Del Bono ‪on the @nuffieldfoundation.org project "#Menopause, #HRT & Women Well-Being" Warm Welcome @fnajeeb.bsky.social! 🥳

I’ve reached #10,000 #citations on #Google #Scholar! 🤯 scholar.google.com/citations?us... Feeling proud, grateful, and motivated. Thank you to the mentors, co-authors, and students who’ve shaped this journey with me. Onward! 🚀 #10K #Citations #ResearchImpact #Gratitude #Scholarship

Delighted to be part of the Scientific Committee for the #CAF-WELAC (LACEA) Workshop on #Gender, #Households & #Inequality (Dec 16–17, Buenos Aires). 📍 Amazing speakers confirmed—submit your paper by Aug 3! 👉🏻 www.caf.com/media/467715... #CallForPapers

Delighted to be on the Scientific Committee for the 2025 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society #EWMES 📍 Nicosia, Cyprus 📅 Dec 7–9, 2025 🌱 A key platform for ECRs across econometrics, macro, micro, theory & more. 📝 Submit by Sept 7 🔗: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...

Delighted to be on the Scientific Committee for the 2025 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society #EWMES 📍 Nicosia, Cyprus 📅 Dec 7–9, 2025 🌱 A key platform for ECRs across econometrics, macro, micro, theory & more. 📝 Submit by Sept 7 🔗: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...

Delighted to be part of the Scientific Committee for the #CAF-WELAC (LACEA) Workshop on #Gender, #Households & #Inequality (Dec 16–17, Buenos Aires). 📍 Amazing speakers confirmed—submit your paper by Aug 3! 👉🏻 www.caf.com/media/467715... #CallForPapers

And that’s a wrap on #IHEA2025 from Bali! 🇮🇩 Busy & productive as always—reconnecting w/ co-authors and brainstorming ideas w/ potential new ones! 🌟 Great to be here w/ @ucl.ac.uk #HEPL #Health #Economics #Policy #Lab crew + fab women & health economists Ana Balsa & Stefi Schurer ✨ #WomenInEcon

And that’s a wrap on #IHEA2025 from Bali! 🇮🇩 Busy & productive as always—reconnecting w/ co-authors and brainstorming ideas w/ potential new ones! 🌟 Great to be here w/ @ucl.ac.uk #HEPL #Health #Economics #Policy #Lab crew + fab women & health economists Ana Balsa & Stefi Schurer ✨ #WomenInEcon

Well done to all the presenters, such an interesting session! 🙌🏻 #IHEA2025

Good morning! Interested in sexual and reproductive health? Then join us in Denpasar 2!👇🏻#IHEA2025

Done here w/ 3 presentations this morning at #IHEA2025 in Bali! Below with session 1 moderator Bernard Moscoso and moderator & presenter of session 2 Nicole Black & Adam Akmal Dzulkipli @monashuniversity.bsky.social Two interesting and engaging sessions - now enjoying the rest of the conference💥

🗣️ And now starting in Bougainville 1 for a special session on economic costs, prevention, and consequences of #child #maltreatment 👇🏻 #IHEA2025

Double duties for me at #IHEA2025 this morning! We are soon starting the session “#Food and #Nutrition” in Surabaya (2nd floor BICC)! I will present on changes in nutrition in pregnancy and adherence to the #NHS #guidelines👇🏻

Last Wed I had the privilege to give a seminar at #DHSC (Department of Health & Social Care) on #health #visiting and #early #intervention in England, w/ my excellent PostDoc G Weber Costa 📍 Grateful & happy for the strong turnout and genuinely engaged, thoughtful discussion! 🙏🏻 🧵 1/n

Last Wed I had the privilege to give a seminar at #DHSC (Department of Health & Social Care) on #health #visiting and #early #intervention in England, w/ my excellent PostDoc G Weber Costa 📍 Grateful & happy for the strong turnout and genuinely engaged, thoughtful discussion! 🙏🏻 🧵 1/n

#TBT to #ESPE2025 (12–14 June) in my beautiful hometown of #Naples – the perfect setting for a truly engaging conference w/ so many of my favourite people, multiple parallel sessions and much food for thought! 💙🇮🇹

Great to see you, Gabriella! Thanks for coming

Indeed, excellent choice to have @chloergibbs.bsky.social for the @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social AL! And so nice to see our #SureStart work featured 🙌🏻 👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications...

🇬🇧A month in London-a great time to reflect & recharge. B4 things ramp up again, a quick recap of May–June 1️⃣ @cesifo.org Area Conference Labor Economics 2️⃣ @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social Applied Workshops 3️⃣ @rfberlin.bsky.social Workshop Economics of Aging 4️⃣ Workshop Economics of Risky Behavior

⚡️Happy that my paper on #gene X #environment interactions in #child #development (evidence from home visiting RCT in Colombia) w/ @orazioatt.bsky.social P Jervis C Meghir @aysuo.bsky.social was the most downloaded WP in the @hceconomics.bsky.social series in May! 🧬 Thread below!👇

Gene x Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia: Attanasio, Orazio; Conti, Gabriella; Jervis, Pamela; Meghir, Costas; Okbay, Aysu

🖤 Proud to be UCL✌🏻

La ménopause est une source importante d'inégalité salariale femmes-hommes... Et, surprise (non), cette inégalité se renforce dans les classes sociales défavorisés, du fait de moindres capacités à se prémunir contre les symptômes de la ménopause. Un travail de @gabriconti chroniqué par @Paulinegro

Very happy that our work "The #Menopause #'Penalty'" has been featured in @lemonde.fr @lemonde-en.bsky.social! Paper here @theifs.bsky.social WP: ifs.org.uk/publications... Le Monde article here: www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... W/ many thanks to @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social

📣 #CallForPapers - Workshop on Socio-emotional Skills & #Education - Trento, IT Sept. 11-12, 2025 Keynote speakers: • @gabriconti.bsky.social • Giuseppe Sorrenti • @emmatominey.bsky.social 📩 Submit full papers or extended abstracts by June 6️⃣ at [email protected] #EconSky #EduSky #ResearchSky

📣 SURE START FINAL REPORT OUT!! 🌟So proud to have been part of this journey! 🔟 years of hard work + rigorous analysis, & the evidence speaks clearly: #SureStart worked. 💷 SS returned £2 for every £1 spent. A milestone for #EarlyYears policy. 👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications...

📣 SURE START FINAL REPORT OUT!! 🌟So proud to have been part of this journey! 🔟 years of hard work + rigorous analysis, & the evidence speaks clearly: #SureStart worked. 💷 SS returned £2 for every £1 spent. A milestone for #EarlyYears policy. 👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications...

🙏🏻 from #SureStart co-authors (from left): - C Crawford @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social &IFS - C Farquharson IFS - @nickridpath.bsky.social IFS - Me @ucleconomics.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social & IFS - S Cattan @nestauk.bsky.social & IFS (+ P Carneiro) 📌 our report here: ifs.org.uk/publications...

🎙️Grand finale! - Ed Balls in an engaging chat w/ incoming @theifs.bsky.social Director @helenmiller.bsky.social & C Farquharson As Ed Balls eloquently put it “If only we had this report at the time..” - Me delivering the closing remarks 🔚 🌟 What a fabulous day! Now let’s see what’ll come 🎬

🎙️ Session 3️⃣ our @theifs.bsky.social #SureStart report launch is 🔛! Chaired by Sarah Cattan - S Newman on EY offer in WestminsterCC - C Martin on children’s services in Essex CC - S Newman DHSC & M Rooney DfE sharing valuable inside from within GOV.UK

🎙️Session 2️⃣ #SureStart launch 🔛! Chaired by @clairecrawf.bsky.social @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social - F Wilkie LGA on first results & challenges of #FamilyHubs - L Kraftman on @nestauk.bsky.social integrated EY study - @chriscuthbert.bsky.social @tcru-ucl.bsky.social on how we take stock of the evidence

🎙️session 1️⃣ of our @theifs.bsky.social #SureStart report launch ongoing! What did SS do? - @nickridpath.bsky.social presenting our new results - Jacqueline Barnes reporting on the #NESS evaluation - James Holland reporting on the #ECCE evaluation 🎤 Joined by C Farquharson for a very lively Q&A!

🗞️ Excellent coverage of our new final report of #SureStart by @richada.bsky.social @theguardian.com 📌 Our #IFS report here ifs.org.uk/publications... “Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds” 👉🏻 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“If this government wants to boost children’s life chances, it should take a serious look at integrated early years services.” From Pedro Carniero, Sarah Cattan, @gabriconti.bsky.social‬, Claire Crawford, ‪@ckfarquharson.bsky.social‬, ‪@nickridpath.bsky.social‬: ifs.org.uk/publications... [11/11]

At its peak, Sure Start cost around £2.7bn per year (in today's prices). We estimate that over the long run, it might generate £2.4bn in savings for government per cohort. Including wider benefits like higher earnings, total long-run benefits could be twice the cost. [10/11]

At most ages, children from disadvantaged backgrounds experienced greater benefits from Sure Start, though other children also benefitted. In general, boys and children from ethnic minority backgrounds also tended to experience slightly larger effects. [9/11]

Sure Start’s effects on more severe outcomes were limited. We find little effect on contact with children’s social care; Education Health and Care Plans; and serious crime. This suggests that universal light-touch services on their own don’t meet the highest needs. [8/11]

Longer-term improvements could have come from changes in parental behaviour, reflected in reductions in unauthorised absences from primary school. Increased interaction with other services and improved language skills at age 5 may have also generated long-run benefits. [7/11]

Effects on socio-emotional development and behaviour were more mixed. Sure Start increased the number of youth cautions, especially at ages 10-12, with no significant evidence of a reduction in more serious offending. But behaviour in school and mental health improved. [6/11]

Sure Start also reduced the number of children with SEN support plans from age 7 onwards. This followed an increase in rates of SEN support at age 5, likely driven by an increase in detection or increased interaction with services. [5/11]

Access to Sure Start also substantially reduced hospitalisations of children and teenagers. Increases in infancy are driven by increases in “preventable” hospitalisations and in hospitalisations for infections and illnesses, both of which then fell later in childhood. [4/11]

We find that access to a Sure Start centre from birth significantly improved the children’s educational attainment, with benefits lasting at least until GCSEs (age 16). [3/11]

This new report summarises our 10-year body of work on the effects of Sure Start, a network of ‘one-stop shops’ integrating services for families with children under 5. And the report provides a detailed cost-benefit analysis cutting across a range of child outcomes. [2/11]

📣 SURE START FINAL REPORT OUT!! 🌟So proud to have been part of this journey! 🔟 years of hard work + rigorous analysis, & the evidence speaks clearly: #SureStart worked. 💷 SS returned £2 for every £1 spent. A milestone for #EarlyYears policy. Ready for the launch! 🚀

How did I miss the group photo 🥲 Didn’t take pics this time!! But this of the v interesting keynote of Jishnu Das Thank you for organising and including my paper! 🙏🏻