🚨 JOB MARKET PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Why do firms provide different workplace amenities? And how does amenity provision affect labor market inequality? 🧵

BÆM is back! Submit your paper and join us for the 3rd Bristol Applied Economics Meetings. Three workshops with a fantastic lineup of invited speakers: Development Economics, 5-6 May Economics of Migration, 6-7 May Fairness in the Economy, 8 May Calls for papers👇https://www.baem.info/

📢 CfP Alert! We’re excited to announce the 3rd Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM). 🗓️ 5–8 May 2026 | 📍 University of Bristol Three focused workshops in applied economics: Development, Migration & Fairness. 🔗 www.baem.info

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Our paper "Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States" is finally out in the European Economic Review! @paulhufe.net

Call for abstracts: genetics, economic & social issues. We're hosting a 1-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic & social issues on 12th December at UCL’s Social Research Institute. More info & submission at link below #genetics #socialscience #economics #cohort bit.ly/41EnPmu

Keep an eye on this guy 👇Fantastic things to come. Congratulations to a truly outstanding thesis 👏

Had an amazing time at LISIT 2025. Thanks a lot to @robertoiacono.org and all organizers for putting together a fantastic event!

New paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen 📝 Causal evidence for gene-environment interaction based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

New Working Paper! 😀📢 "The Genetic Lottery Goes to School: Better Schools Compensate for the Effects of Students’ Genetic Differences" 🧬 🎓 by @rosacheesman.bsky.social‬ Nicolai T. Borgen, Astrid M. J. Sandsør @paulhufe.net Read the full paper here: 📝 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Final plenary discussion about mendelian randomization with George Davey Smith, Dalton Conley and Alice Carter.

Titus Galama on the Economics and Econometrics of GxE

Sonia Petrini on reconciling Scarr-Rowe and compensatory advantage

Asta Breinholt is presenting a novel theoretical typology of GxE

Tim Morris presents the variety of British cohort studies and their genomic uses

Rafael Geurgas on using machine learning with genetic data to predict depression

Aysu Okbay is talking about the interaction between a Colombian cash transfer RCT and genetic factors

Rosa Cheesman on GxE and childcare use

Dilnoza Muslimova on Genetic Inequalities and Public Policy

Bennet McIntosh on precisely how social categories are geneticized

Tim Wienand on Nature-Nurture Beliefs and Parenting

Oskar Pettersson on how genetic explanations affect perceived fairness of socioeconomic differences

Jane Greve on how BMI genetics impacts educational outcomes

Weilong Zhang's talk about Genetic Endowments and Lifetime Earnings

Associations between cognition genetics and economic preferences, controlling for parental SES variables and PCs

"Genes, Cognitive skills and Preferences", by Tanaporn Maneein

Today's keynote speaker is Michelle Meyer, speaking about responsible communication of social science genetics research.

We are gathered!

Today marks the start of the fourth annual ESSGN conference, this year hosted in a lovely and sunny Bristol! Follow along!

Submit, submit, submit!👇

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Great having you, Dario! Thanks for the very interesting presentation :)

Fantastic workshop! Thank you for including my paper!

Day 3 of the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! After two fantastic days on development economics, we continue with the meeting on “Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital”. Stay tuned for some excellent papers!

Last up is Devesh Rustagi @warwickecon.bsky.social showing that managing the commons may require both formal rules and civic capital. In managing forests in Ethiopia, combining civic capital with rules deters free-riding and improves cooperation. Paper: drive.google.com/file/d/1u1lF...

Do training and data provision help local decision-makers target beneficiaries of social policies? Not necessarily. @violaasri.bsky.social finds that targeting in Bangladesh only improved along easily observable traits, and if committees had educated chairs. Paper: docs.iza.org/dp17365.pdf

Karmini Sharma shows that job seekers in India would trade 5-13% of their salary for safety from anti-sexual harassment. But firms misjudge both anti-harassment legislation and worker demand and underinvest in such amenities, even after being provided with more information.

Can public infrastructure investments boost tax morale? @climent.bsky.social shows that randomized street paving in Mexico increased local tax compliance by 5.5% via both public goods provision and improved beliefs about government efficiency. Paper: econ.hkust.edu.hk/sites/econom...

Jorge Garcia Hombrados presents evidence from Nigeria that fast internet reduces female genital mutilation. Not by spreading anti-FGM content, but by reshaping women’s broader identity with less stigma around promiscuous behaviors and premarital sex. Paper: docs.iza.org/dp17194.pdf

First up is @andreaslink.bsky.social, who finds that preventing “conflict diamonds” from entering world markets reduces armed conflicts in Africa, underscoring the importance of international initiatives in fostering peace. Paper: bit.ly/3PgdeHL

Héctor Paredes Castro looks at the effects of a land expropriation and redistribution process in Peru on local political competition. The reform increased the number of contesting parties, voter turnout, and the participation of more educated, older, and indigenous candidates.

Natalia Guerrero Trinidad shows that a non-state security arrangement in Peru—the Peasant Rounds—generated long-lasting reductions in criminality and conflict by fostering social capital. The research highlights the importance of bottom-up structures in weak state capacity settings.

Masahiro Kubo uncovers the historical origins of Islamist insurgencies in West Africa. Jihad violence is concentrated along the trans-Saharan caravan routes, where landlocked cities played a key role before European colonization. Paper: stsuda.github.io/draft_IslamH...

@andregroeger.bsky.social estimates a dynamic structural model of farm production using high-quality data from Vietnam to quantify the relative importance of market frictions and technological constraints in limiting farmers’ ability to adjust production to changing conditions.

@saralowes.bsky.social delivers a keynote lecture on "Culture and Development Policy" discussing how culture shapes incentives, persists and evolves, and documenting cultural mismatches between policymakers and target populations

Shunsuke Tsuda shows that interethnic proximity fosters long-run political and economic development in Malaysia. Communities exposed to Chinese ethnic camps set up by the colonial government display more economic prosperity and less ethnonationalism: stsuda.github.io/mypolitics_K...

@maxposch.bsky.social shows that increased market access induced by railroad expansion and population growth in the US between 1850 and 1920 fostered a set of cultural traits associated with cooperation. Mechanism: economic interdependence.

@clementminaudier.bsky.social shows that digitizing land records in Punjab reduced agricultural tax collection. Digitization did not lower the tax base but weakened state capacity to collect taxes by disrupting the bureaucracy’s organization. Paper: www.clementminaudier.com/ARM_Digitiza...

Does mass media shape identity? @deanyang.bsky.social presents evidence that the Ramayan TV show, a popular adaptation of the Hindu epic broadcast in India in 1987-88, led to stronger Hindu identity, more communal violence, and long-run BJP electoral gains. Paper: www.nber.org/system/files...

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