Do mental health treatment delays impact mortality? Sydney Costantini (@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social) on how clinic congestion affects mortality for veterans: youtu.be/r62hE1agkkI

Can redistribution change policy views? Travis Baseler (@urochester.bsky.social), @thomasginn.bsky.social (@cgdev.org), Robert Hakiza (YARID), Helidah Ogude-Chambert (@odid-qeh.bsky.social) & Olivia Woldemikael (@thenewschool.bsky.social) on aid & attitudes toward refugees: youtu.be/9Y1yKIImwZs

Preschoolers get sick frequently, and may expose their infant siblings to severe respiratory infection. @meltemdaysal.bsky.social (Univ. of Copenhagen), Hui Ding (Fudan), @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social (Stanford) & Hannes Schwandt (@sesp-nu.bsky.social) on the consequences: youtu.be/WmRM2RUx_gU

Economic models often assume households behave as a single decision-making unit. Does this mirror reality? Taha Choukhmane (@mitsloan.bsky.social), Lucas Goodman (U.S. Treasury) & @cormacodea.bsky.social (Yale) on the retirement savings of U.S. couples: youtu.be/eHowMVi5MoA

How does agricultural policy reshape the economic consequences of climate change? @allanhsiao.bsky.social (Stanford), Jacob Moscona (MIT) & Karthik Sastry (@princetonecon.bsky.social) on food policy in a warming world: youtu.be/dWA3hhAibag

Household carbon emissions differ across different places. Does this mean one way to lower emissions is for higher-emissions places to adopt the features of lower-emissions places? Eva Lyubich (US Census) on the role of people vs. places: youtu.be/Xx5J4aqDEi0

Do recessions impact mortality? Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession: youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g

How replaceable is a low-wage job? Evan Rose (UChicago) & Yotam Shem-Tov (UCLA) on the long-run consequences of low-wage job loss: youtu.be/mXTuz4vb98o

Since the 1980s, China has engaged in one of the largest and most systematic episodes of policy experimentation in recent history. Shaoda Wang (UChicago Harris) & David Yang (@harvard.edu) on policy learning in this setting: youtu.be/cE-RlzXhLXk

Hundreds of millions worldwide live in areas controlled by criminal organizations. What can states do to regain control? @afenizia.bsky.social (@gwu1821.bsky.social) & Raffaele Saggio (UBC) on combating the Mafia: youtu.be/nfs5jVvFxOI

Investments in universal pre-K have high returns, largely driven by the substantial effect on parents’ earnings. From @johneric.bsky.social, Christopher Neilson, @xiaoyangye.bsky.social & Seth Zimmerman: youtu.be/YxexiLODdHE (Yale Economics, Yale Tobin Center, Yale SOM)

What is the social cost of political corruption? Meera Mahadevan (@gpsucsd.bsky.social) on corruption in the Indian electricity sector and its welfare consequences: youtu.be/bSOvmbmDBkc

India ranks among the worst countries for women’s health. Policy solutions have focused on subsidizing health care, but Pascaline Dupas (@princetonecon.bsky.social) & @radhikajain.bsky.social (@uclofficial.bsky.social) show these programs are plagued by gender inequality: youtu.be/M3vscwPxEr8

Anti-scientific attitudes impose a substantial cost on society. Can science education help address this? Benjamin Arold (University of Cambridge) on evolution vs. creationism in the classroom: youtu.be/ZeZw4jqsMKY