Ancestral origins of attention to environmental issues doi.org/10.48550/arX... @arxiv-econ-gn.bsky.social preprint by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow César Barilla and @palaashbhargava.bsky.social

1/ Ever wondered if your ethnic ancestors' climatic experiences shape how you think about the environment today? 🌍🔥 In a new WP with Cesar Barilla, we find a U-shaped link between ancestral climate variability & attention to the environment today. #Climate #Culture #EconSky

How parents are affected when their child goes to college or receives a grant, from Palaash Bhargava, @econsandy.bsky.social, Jeff Denning, Robert W. Fairlie, and Oded Gurantz https://www.nber.org/papers/w33497

How are parents affected by their kid going to college? How are they affected when their kid gets a scholarship or grant? New working paper with @palaashbhargava.bsky.social @econsandy.bsky.social @odedgurantz.bsky.social and Rob Fairlie www.nber.org/papers/w33497

Thanks for the bump, @sweiwang.bsky.social !

This is such an important point that often gets ignored from a policy perspective. I think one way of making meaningful headway is to lean into sociological responses and be wary of policy recommendations based on the actual level of randomization.

Posting a little late but new blogpost from World Bank Development Impact on my job market paper. Peer matching interventions often require a nuanced understanding of how direct vs general equilibrium effects can operate differently. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva... #EconSky

Today’s #econjmp post is by @palaashbhargava.bsky.social, who does a RCT in India to examine how peer interactions work within and across classrooms. He shows tradeoffs from pairing isolated kids with popular kids vs each other blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

1/ 🤔 Ever wondered if pairing socially isolated students with popular peers helps or hurts their outcomes? My job market paper explores this through a large-scale RCT across Indian schools. Thread below 🧵 #EconSky #EconJobMarket #JMP