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Many kudos and heartfelt congratulations to my amazing colleague Melissa Dell for her incredibly insightful and careful research and well-deserved Clark Medal!

This good reporting reminded me that most people in developing countries were, before COVID19, already struggling. nytimes.com/2020/04/30/wor… Strugglers are the new poor of this century cgdev.org/blog/struggler… Nora Lustig Anit Mukherjee Christian Meyer

Super fascinating paper showing that private role models are complements but public role models are substitutes to prosocial behavior

On the economics of gender in the 21st century, Marianne Bertrand's Ely Lecture is magisterial as you'd expect. These figures show just two of the fresh and counterintuitive facts that she documents. And explains. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

I am at a loss of words...my goodness...Alberto brought a larger-than-life spirit to this profession, our department, and all the students he mentored throughout his career. No way to describe the magnitude of this loss...RIP.

Ciao, Alberto.. Remembering Alberto Alesina's research, contributions, and life with Elias Papaioannou at VoxEU (@HKS Harvard University Università Bocconi) voxeu.org/article/albert…

New version of our paper, "Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India." Class discussions on gender equality increased support for gender equality by a lot. The effect was still present 2 years later. bit.ly/2QGHIGu

Rest in peace Emmanuel Farhi. A brilliant researcher, an insatiable mind, and a wonderful person & friend. Au revoir, cher ami. scholar.harvard.edu/farhi/home

As people in poor countries get richer, they have a *greater* tendency to emigrate. I just released two major studies, one joint with Mariapia Mendola, exploring this remarkable phenomenon. Long-read summary here: cgdev.org/blog/emigratio… Topline in this thread —>

Tomorrow is the economics Nobel Prize announcement. I think it would be a good year for Claudia Goldin Claudia Goldin 🤞 #EconTwitter what do you think?

Many kudos to the amazing, brilliant, and always inspiring Claudia Goldin for winning the Nemmers Prize in Economics for her pathbreaking work into gender, labor markets, education, and economic history - a big day for Harvard economics in dire times. nemmers.northwestern.edu/prizes/2020gol…

This must-read JMP by the brilliant and kind AB is a tour de force

Thinking of my niece who rides the bus to school in Buenos Aires every day wearing a green bandana. Huge victory for a generation of Argentine women.

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis,” by Breza (Emily Breza) and Kinnan (Cynthia Kinnan): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

One hundred years of data are drawn together in Claudia Goldin’s monumental exploration of gender equity. Career and Family traces a century of efforts at achieving equality, and reveals why we still have a long way to go. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove… #PUPRights #TheOnlineBookFair 3/5

Meet Rohini Pande, a Yale economist known for groundbreaking work in international development, gender economics, anti-corruption, and more. She’s featured in #FandD’s newest “People in Economics” profile: bit.ly/3y9w9JN

Career and Family | Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

No matter how many times I listen to talks by the amazing Claudia Goldin, I always learn so much more!

Breaking the trend 👊💥…I joined the wall of former Chief Economists of the IMF 😀

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