📣Hi #EconSky! I am on the job market! 📣 My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓 The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑‍🧒‍🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮. For more: sevinkaytan.com

Gracias Jorge Garcia y @mariahdb.bsky.social por este articulo sobre SPANDE en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social!! 🤩 Nuestros objectivos son: - Fortecer la comunidad de economistas que trabajan en paises a renta baja o mediana - Suportar NGOs o instituciones a evaluar de manera rigorosa sus programas 👇🏾

Full house for the third #SPANDE workshop start!! Thanks @mariahdb.bsky.social and Jorge Garcia Hombrados for organising and @fundacionareces.bsky.social for supporting!! See program below 👇🏾

En Madrid este martes!!! 👇🏾👇🏾

go.bsky.app/9mZrrpQ thanks @jfledderjohann.bsky.social to compile this starting pack on #FoodSecurity amd #Nutrition! Here’s the link for anyone who’s interested in joining the conversation! 👇🏾

What an issue!!! So proud of my @ubeconomics.bsky.social @fundacioieb.bsky.social colleagues @matteogamalerio.bsky.social and Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuela that stroke not one, but TWO articles in this month issue of AEJ:Policy!! 😻

I had the chance to join the wonderful “Teachers’ voices” @boldinsights.bsky.social, my very first podcast!! Grateful for the chance to talk about parental education engagement and add my “researcher voice” to the ones of teachers from around the 🌍 Listen here 👇🏾

Since childhood, I always loved the thrill of starting a new notebook 🤓 Today especially excited to start this new one featuring Ghanaian writers that we designed to thank the 2,400 kids participating in our @erc.europa.eu LEAD study! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... @poverty-action.bsky.social

After the US, basic science is in danger also in the EU! Let’s raise our voices to protect the autonomy and independence of the @erc.europa.eu! Read our statement below 👇🏾

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

Smallpox declined gradually, until the WHO coordinated the global effort to eradicate it 🧵

This post estimates that proposed USAID cuts will cost almost a million lives www.cgdev.org/blog/millio...

Has anyone archived all the materials that were previously in the DHS website?

Hoy en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social comentamos nuestro estudio con @juditvall.bsky.social y Caoimhe T Rice sobre cómo el acceso a la sanidad pública influye en las denuncias por violencia de género:

What happens when countries do NOT invest in #EarlyChildhood 🐣? New paper modeling COSTS OF INACTION: -NOT preventing #malnutrition in countries with high stunting costs 2.8% GDP -NOT running universal #pre-school across Sub-Saharan Africa costs 1.6%GDP www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apply to this year’s #SPANDE #development economics workshop by June 15! Great, fun and supportive community - this year we are partnering with @fundacionareces.bsky.social which is kindly hosting us in Madrid!! #econsky

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Great resource to get a quick overview of new paper/stuff going on in #econsky!!! Thanks @bestofecontwitter.bsky.social to put together this fantastic newsletter!!

I am excited to have joined this unique community of European scientists! Together we can make our voice of researchers heard - which now is more important than ever!! If you have @erc.europa.eu funding, consider joining us, and EVERYONE - stay tuned @ercgrantees.bsky.social for activities 👇🏾

And check out our keynote speakers: Bishnupriya Gupta (Warwick), @climent.bsky.social (Exeter) and Christine Valente (Bristol). 3rd Workshop on Gender Issues and Development 📅 3-4 November 2025 📍University of Reading Submit your paper by July, 2 here: shorturl.at/mUhPs

📣 Submit your paper to the 10th Conference in Development Economics organised by SITES. Keynotes: Stefan Dercon (Oxford), Nathalie Picard (Université de Strasbourg) Kevin Urama (AFB) 📅 15-17 September 2025 📍 Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy Apply by 31 May 2025 Link: shorturl.at/unDqU

💬 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow @bettaaurino.bsky.social shares how school meals and parenting programs are helping children thrive in Ghana and Mali. Read the full interview on @boldinsights.bsky.social 🔗 boldscience.org/the-economis... #Education #BOLD #Ghana #Mali

Molta il-lusio per aquest grup i per la candidatura de @juditvall.bsky.social com a degana de la nostra facultat!!

Another @404media.co article on #DataRescue. This one concerns the challenges around restricted access data (often human subjects data). We at DRP are seriously concerned about these datasets and the loss that will impact research and more for a long time. www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Interesting workshop @idos-research.bsky.social for those working on social protection and climate change! www.idos-research.de/en/events/de...

Thanks for the opportunity @boldinsights.bsky.social for this interview, it was so much fun. Hope readers will enjoy it too! ☺️ And for a school-meal nerd like me, I could not have imagined a better drawing to go with the article! 😍🙏🏽

🎉 New paper out! 🎉 Economists are increasingly using measures of child social-emotional skills validated in high-income settings for research in LMICs. But do these really capture what we expect in these settings? We find that the widely used SDQ in Ghana measures different, unexpected skills👇🏾

We are still looking for a #postdoc! Our ideal candidate should have training or experience in structural models and/or modeling skills - knowledge of the relevant lit is a plus. Please do send me a motivation letter, writing sample, and CV. Please help us sharing widely #econJM #econsky 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Looking forward to tomorrow’s panel with @leecrawfurd.bsky.social on the role of #EdTech in supporting child learning during crises (including funding cuts!). Thanks #EdTechHub for inviting - here’s registration link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Hot off the press!! 🎉 A new method to include both productivity and equity gains from programs that affect multiple outcomes (eg poverty, skills, etc). Given this multiplicity, it is hard to evaluate the overall welfare effects from such programs (1) www.sciencedirect.com/science/auth...

Vaccines work. .

Yesterday IZA, today the DHS 🥲 The DHS are such a key resource for data on health, nutrition, fertility, etc, and a global public good. Now it will be harder to document the damages of shutting down critical health programs among the world’s poorest, but likely this is why they have been terminated

Amazing opportunity!!!

A new study from India 🇮🇳shows that children selling goods in markets often master mental arithmetic effortlessly—but the math skills don’t transfer to the classroom. See how the study explores how these learning environments shape different problem-solving abilities:

📢 Workshop Call 📢 3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025 Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk @didacqueralt.bsky.social

🎉 L'11/02/25 va ser el Dia de la Dona i la Nena en la Ciència, però cada dia ho és! Volem mostrar quines són algunes de les referents de tres investigadores de la #FEE en els seus camps: @bettaaurino.bsky.social (Economia), Vesna Savic (Empresa) i Núria Vergés (Sociologia). bit.ly/4gGO3cZ

A new exec order has halted the distribution of vital drugs that prevent HIV among the world's poorest. Medication withheld IS lives lost. @corinnelow.bsky.social and @belindaarch.bsky.social have drafted this letter for economists to sign 👇

Do you do #development economics in Europe? Follow @ede-group.bsky.social for the latest updates on conferences, training etc. [Account in construction thanks to the unfatigable @stefanialovo.bsky.social 🙏🏽] #econsky

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Can we make this a compulsory subject?

Another two great job opportunities in Barcelona! 👇🏾👇🏾 #econsky #predocs

📢Arne Hole and I are excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for the 2nd UAM-UJI Workshop on Economics of Health & Human Capital! 🗓️ Key dates: Abstracts: 16 Mar 2025 Notification: 16 Apr 2025 Full papers: 1 Jun 2025 📍 20 Jun 2025 Castellón, Spain No fees! 1/n

Come work with me, @wolfssharon.bsky.social @nsuntheimer.bsky.social & an interdisciplinary team in Barcelona, Ghana, & the US! Looking for a #postdoc @ubeconomics.bsky.social for our @ercresearch.bsky.social project on how investments in the early and the adolescent years support children

Gordon Brown and Kevin Watkins outlining the way forward for global #SchoolMeals financing on the model of GAVI in this great op-ed @projectsyndicate.bsky.social So happy to see my work in Ghana cited as evidence that school meals build human capital, especially for poorest kids shorturl.at/g1D6t

It's not too late to register for the "From Bystander to Upstander" workshop to be held on January 22 at 4:00 ET by the Ombuds Team. This live workshop will help participants identify and discuss strategies to use when witnessing destructive behavior. #econsky mwi-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An excellent path into graduate school, very well run and truly interdisciplinary. Great program in a wonderful place. Consider applying!

New WP out! 🚨 with Catia Nicodemo & Giulia Montresor

🧵 Want to prevent generations of scientifically illiterate citizens from opposing evolutionary theories or rejecting the benefits of science (like vaccines)? Teach more science in schools. A thread 🧵👇 #EconSky @qjeharvard.bsky.social 1/7

Really looking forward to the European Society of Population Economics conference in June 2025! 📢Call for Papers #ESPE2025 ⏳Submission deadline: February 1, 2025 ⚓️Naples, June 12-14, 2025 👉Info: www.espe2025naples.com 🙏Please share! (H/T Sunčica Vujić) #EconSky

Question about std errors: In an RCT, treated people are randomly assigned to "pods" and interact (e.g., treatment = WhatsApp group membership). The norm (e.g. Cai-Szeidl) is to cluster on indiv for control group + on pod for treatment group. Why is clustering needed if any ICC is due to treatment?