🔥Double celebrations this week🔥 Our new JDE publication and the notification of my promotion to FULL professor of economics! Updating my CV 👇

Our findings 20 years post conflict: Childhood trauma from conflict has lasting psychological and social effects that may be missed by standard economic measures. 📣 Child abductions are still tragically commonplace in conflicts around the worldtoday. cgdev.org/publication/ch…

📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣 ➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social

Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up. Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... @aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky

As my sabbatical visit to BU ends, I say goodbye to all the wonderful Boston-based people who have welcome me. Ending the semester with a classic: #selfiewithsue @dynarski.bsky.social

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

Tight labor markets in the last decade reduced US community college enrollment. Super interesting pic here showing just how countercyclical community college enrollment is (as compared to basically non-cyclical 4 year college enrollment) From @joshua-goodman.com & Winkelman new NBER WP

Y’all, this CSWEP newsletter is a banger. Five women economists generously share their stories about navigating family and career. 🔥 @jialanw.bsky.social @kmpjones.bsky.social Sarah Hamersma, Kosali Simon, and Sarah Baird. It was an honor to "edit" (which mostly involved sitting back for good reads)

Stay tuned for follow-up, where we conduct an RCT involving vulnerable women in this area - half abducted as children - to assess the impact of: 1) cash only 2) cash+group life-skill training 3) cash+group mental health counseling W/ @eeshani.bsky.social & @mirandainez.bsky.social

Thanks @daveevansphd.bsky.social ! The most challenging fieldwork, but such important (and sad) findings. Plugging @mirandainez.bsky.social who has done more work on men & women who were abducted as children. She studies how this childhood trauma impacts IPV later in life #econjobmarket

What's the long-term impact of being abducted during an armed conflict? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... In Uganda, 20 years after the conflict: "Formerly abducted women still exhibit significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, heightened stress responses..."

📣Job Candidate Alert🚨 I am @mirandainez.bsky.social’s co-chair at TAMU Econ w/ @eckelc.bsky.social Her JMP is a super interesting analysis of the impacts of childhood victimization on domestic violence in adulthood, leveraging the quasi-randomness of child abductions in Uganda in 80s & 90s [1/n]

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

📣 BUT IS IT ECONOMICS? *New at EJ* “Research Similarity and Women in Academia,” Piera Bello, Alessandra Casarico & @deboranozza.bsky.social, on role of research similarity btw applicants & selection committees for academic promotions, and the implications for gender diversity: tinyurl.com/mrd8cpkf

Congratulations to my former student Daniel Gomez-Vasquez! Very proud advisor over here🎉🎉🎉 #econsky

Do you want to learn more about @NovaSBE #PhD in #Economics and how you can pursue your doctoral studies in #DevelopmentEconomics? Do you have questions to ask? Join us online Wednesday Oct 29 | 4pm: lnkd.in/dh_XMcKX Apply here: lnkd.in/dCkjAdGc

This was a fantastic conference that I was lucky to participate in. Thanks to @alexeble.bsky.social @ashleyywong.bsky.social and the other organizers. I learned a lot!

It’s always great when you go to a conference and find one of your “no club” members and @aeacswep.bsky.social peer mentors in the program! @tderyugina.bsky.social

Looking forward to participating in the BIG Forum event at @biglabnd.bsky.social next month!

Seeing co-authors (@amandayagan.bsky.social‬ Bo Cowgill Jonathan Meer) IN PERSON, seeing my @aeacswep.bsky.social Mid-Career mentoring buddy (@danilaserra-eco.bsky.social) and CeMent mentee (Amanda Chuan), and all sorts of other shenanigans that won't be posted here

Another great @nber.org summer institute has come and gone. Highlights were a great dinner with the crowd from Children/Families

Thank you to all who replied. I got the data I needed!

#EconSky Does anybody have DHS data for Bangladesh? Or is there a webpage where somebody managed to save previously available DHS data? Thank you for your help!

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Great overview by @um-psc.bsky.social of our new review in @science.org about brain gain! #EconSky #Migration

I gave a keynote address today at the AEA CTREE conference and I used my hands A LOT! (My husband was in the audience for the first time ever, and took photographic evidence of my insane use of Italian hands!🤷‍♀️)

In Palo Alto for a talk and so glad I was able to see Kalena last night (despite flight cancellations and rescheduling)

Thrilled to share the cover of my upcoming book, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. @flatironbooks.bsky.social, Sept 23! Containing 15 years of research & my personal story. Preorder links, book talks, & newsletter here! corinnelow.com/book

This is a great paper on a timely topic! Congrats @danielfiroozi.bsky.social!

The one good news of the week is that @econcath.bsky.social & I were together in Lancaster as our paper “Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models” (AEJ: Applied, 2020) reached 600 citations while we work on the follow-up study🎊 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Very happy to be in London for the @GLMLIC research conference at @LSEnews, learning about ongoing projects on gender and labor markets in low income countries. @g2lmlic.bsky.social @iza.org

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

This is terrible, terrible news. My heart goes out to the staff at @wilsoncenter.org and my head is spinning at how this destroys a load-bearing element of the US foreign policy ecosystem.

A new blog with Justin Sadefur on the USAID cuts. Based on a leaked list of cancelled contracts and data from foreignassistancedotgov we try to calculate how deep the cuts by country and sector. www.cgdev.org/blog/usaid-c...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

I will be in Lancaster visiting my friend and coauthor @econcath.bsky.social on April 1-11, with a short stay in London for the @iza.org @g2lmlic.bsky.social research conference on April 7-8. I really need a break from this country.

“The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are.” In a new op-ed, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for governments, multilaterals, and philanthropists to double down on investing in evidence-backed programs that improve people’s lives. www.ft.com/content/43e9...

Looking forward!

I really enjoyed listening to @elizabethlinos.bsky.social on Fresh Air. Highly recommended! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Today is a special day. My student Daniel Gomez-Vasquez defended his dissertation, and what a beautiful job he did today & in the past 4 years. He will join Holy Cross as an AP in a few months! @asheassa.bsky.social @aeacsmgep.bsky.social We will miss him @TAMUECON I’m so very proud.

How are the European and UK Econ job markets for a semi-senior economist (plus excellent semi-senior historian of Eastern Europe) these days? Just curious… Reading the news and witnessing what’s happening here in the US is becoming unbearable….😓

“ ‘Rule of law’ can only mean that everyone, government included, obeys it”

@harvardkennedy.bsky.social asked a few of us to comment on the first weeks of DOGE. Read the perspectives of a wide range of faculty: www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

👋 Hi! J-PAL is now on Bluesky! 📊 We’re looking forward to bringing conversations on evidence-informed policy to this new space. Follow us for updates on the latest research, policy insights, and how rigorous evidence is helping shape a better world.

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

Today!

Let’s learn from history! By repeating the worst of it. (Idi Amin’s expulsion of Indians also prominently featured here.) Just incredible work.