🆕 Empowerment or protection? A potential trade-off in cash transfer design Today on VoxDev w/ Giulia Greco (@lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-gheco.bsky.social), @selimgulesci.bsky.social (Trinity College Dublin), Pallavi Prabhakar (BIGD) & Munshi Sulaiman (BIGD): voxdev.org/topic/social...

🆕 A stepping stone approach to mitigating harmful social norms Today on VoxDev w/ Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin), Sam Jindani (NUS), Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard), David Smerdon (University of Queensland), Munshi Sulaiman (BIGD) & Peyton Young (JHU): voxdev.org/topic/instit...

💡New Research 💡 Professor @selimgulesci.bsky.social has published a new paper in @aeajournals.bsky.social 📎Read it here: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... @trinityresearch.bsky.social

Congratulations to Prof @selimgulesci.bsky.social on his appointment as Associate Editor of the Journal of Economics Behavior & Organization (JEBO)! ✨ Read more about the journal here: tinyurl.com/386hsdmy #econsky @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @trisstcd.bsky.social @trinityresearch.bsky.social

Our final Research Insights for the year focuses on Professor @selimgulesci.bsky.social article published in @aeajournals.bsky.social 👏 💡Prof Gulesci talks about why he co-wrote this paper and what impact he sees it having on the world. 👇 tinyurl.com/a8ch7y4u #econsky @tcdssp.bsky.social

Here is a great summary of our paper on addressing gender-based violence in schools in Mozambique, thanks to Lelys Dinarte-Diaz : blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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🚨 New Research 🚨 Professor @selimgulesci.bsky.social has published a new paper with his co-authors in the American Economic Review ✨ 🔗 Read the article here: tinyurl.com/52u4t9a2 #econsky @tcdssp.bsky.social @trinityresearch.bsky.social @trisstcd.bsky.social

Perry’s beach day ☀️

Early investments in children’s health matter. A @g2lmlic.bsky.social project in Uganda found subsidized preschools & cash transfers led to better long-term child health. Stronger health today means a more productive workforce tomorrow.🌎 👉 bit.ly/3Ea8PV7 #WorldHealthDay

Forthcoming in the AER: "A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions" by Selim Gulesci, Sam Jindani, Eliana La Ferrara, David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman, and Peyton Young. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof

🌟My *first published article* is out! 🌟 With Lovise Aalen, @kotsadam.bsky.social, and Espen Villanger, we studied female factory workers in Ethiopia’s industrial parks and endogenous identity. So proud to share this! doi.org/10.1080/0022... #econsky

"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are." -- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.

📣 I have been asked to host an AMA for JPAL on Feb 11 📣 On International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Spread the word, if of interest. Details: sites.google.com/povertyactio...

🆕 Preschool subsidies and cash transfers have long-term health benefits for children Today on VoxDev, Arne Nasgowitz, Denise Ferris, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Lore Vandewalle, Selim Gulesci & Vincent Somville outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health...

An intervention within schools in Mozambique aimed at reducing gender-based violence mitigated violence by deterring potential perpetrators and fostering a proactive stance among victims, from Amaral, Garcia-Ramos, Gulesci, Ramos, Ore-Quispe, and Sviatschi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33203

📈 New Trinity Economic Paper 📈 Can targeted interventions reduce school-based GBV? Professors @selimgulesci.bsky.social and Alejandra Ramos have co-written a new Trinity Economic Paper that explores GBV in Mozambique. 🔗 Read the paper here: ideas.repec.org/p/tcd/tcduee... #econsky

📢I'm on the #EconJobMarket! My #EconJMP studies how inequality in foreign economies shapes the effects of Fed's tightening on their GDP. Spoiler: higher ineq = larger (smaller) GDP drop in AEs (EMEs). Mainly via financial channel. 👉 tinyurl.com/4e2y9598 🌐 simone-arrigoni.com #EconSky Thread👇1/11