Submit your development economics papers to the BREAD Mexico conference! Submission deadline is Jun 19. Conference is Oct 23-24 at ITAM in Mexico City. bread-mexico-2026.github.io

AI-powered mental health apps are all the rage. But do they work? This new experiment on women in Mexico says they do!

New results on AI mental health therapists - Marginal REVOLUTION

"comments that criticize or correct a published study are 20% to 40% less likely than regular papers to have a female author" doi.org/10.1162/rest...

🚨 Call for Papers: LACEA - LAMES 2026 🚨 Submissions now open for the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association annual meetings Nov 12–14, 2026 in Lima, 🇵🇪! 📅 Submission Due: May 31, 2026 🔗 : lacealames2026.org Share widely and see you there! #LACEA2026 #Econsky #EconConf

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Additional household income reduces children's involvement in the child protection system. Just Accepted new paper by Katherine Rittenhouse zurl.co/ZvcCp

The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev group meets F Feb 13, 11am EST. Presenters: @isaacahimbisibwe.bsky.social: "Academic Outcomes of a Gender Quota Policy in University STEM Programs" @roohgulzari.bsky.social: "Improving Parental Engagement in Foundational Learning" Join us! Contact me for Zoom link.

Surveying recent research on changing culture and social norms in developing countries and proposing a simple framework to interpret these changes, from Eliana La Ferrara and David H. Yanagizawa-Drott www.nber.org/papers/w34784

New cool fellowship from the Weiss Fund for junior researchers in LMICs: weissfund.uchicago.edu/weiss-fund-j...

New NBER working paper with Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs. I'd never found a review article on this topic that met my needs as a PhD class reading, so we sought to fill this gap. NBER : www.nber.org/papers/w34605 Ungated: seemajayachandran.com/womens_power_JEL.pdf

The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev group is a community of researchers on education in low and middle income countries. We meet the second Friday of each month (virtually, 11am US eastern) to share work in progress. Presentation slots are open for this academic year! Msg me for link. #econsky #edusky

New on the SSPP: what are the impacts of an AI-driven mental health smartphone app in Mexico? @mangeluc.bsky.social @raissafabregas.bsky.social, and Antonia Vazquez welcome your predictions! socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/56... ⏱️Time: 5 min 📚Field: Econ 🗓️Closes: Aug 13

Happy to see this out!

Very happy to see this in press! It was a please to work with Bruno Calderón-Hernández John Marshall and José Luis Pérez-Castellanos www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are text-message-based programs effective at influencing behavior? We ran 6 RCTS with 3 orgs to find out 👀👇