White enrollment declined more than non-White in school districts that started the 2020–21 school year virtually, but the reverse was true in districts that started in person, Micah Y Baum and Brian Jacob nber.org/papers/w31765

Women in Latin America experience a substantial 35% reduction in income after becoming mothers.

Come to work with Danila on projects on disparities in education choices. Such a great opportunity if you want to get research experience before applying to a PhD. Plus a great match if you are interested in Economics of Education 👌

Evidence from schools in Pakistan shows ⤵️ 1. High teacher expectations improve student achievement. 2. Information provision about previous test scores is also effective, particularly in schools with lower parental literacy. 3. Peer matching helps only when peers are similar.

My paper Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota “Pico y Genero” Lockdown, with Ana Maria Tribin and Mercedes Ponce de Leon is now published at WBER! We study a lockdown in which men could go out on odd days and women on even days academic.oup.com/wber/article-a…

Happy to present at the SEM conference this year hosted by Georgia Tech School of Economics It was a great opportunity to meet new colleges and friends for the first time in-person.

Our paper with Alejandra Abufhele David Bravo & #PamelaSoto on development/learning losses during the pandemic is online! journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

Join the MAP Seminar 🌍📚: Virtual sessions every third Monday featuring applied microeconomics studies in Peru. Submit work by September 17, 2024. Email [email protected] with your paper or extended abstract. Presentations in Spanish or English. Audience adapts.🙂

New IZA working paper about long term outcomes of role model intervention in Somalia !

Seminario MAP Septiembre 2024: ¿Cómo afectan los estereotipos de género al reconocimiento entre pares? Juan Francisco Castro (UP) presentará estudio sobre modelos femeninos en STEM y su impacto en actitudes y reconocimiento. Lunes 16 septiembre, 12PM (hora Perú). 👩‍🔬🏆1/2

Excited to have my first solo-authored publication in the latest issue Journal of Urban Economics! Headline result: I find that DACA eligibility increased victims’ likelihood of reporting crimes to the police. Link to paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Every summer women's employment drops sharply, while men’s is stable. Why? School closures for summer break. Just Accepted new paper by Brendan M. Price and Melanie Wasserman zurl.co/2EY3

🌟🌟Predoc opportunity - join our team🌟🌟 💡Research in health economics and data science with labor and environment intersections 1 Immediate opening (or by Dec) & 1 June 2025 start Econ RA Listings #EconTwitter PREDOC.org Apply here: forms.gle/3mE3k2D9DMdQ2v…

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion

Openings for 1-2 pre-doctoral fellows to join the team at Harvard Kennedy School working on projects related to economics of health equity. More info here: healthinequalitylab.org/researchfellow… Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org

I am happy to share a brand new version of our paper on the persistent effects of land reform and counter-reform on the current conflict with Indigenous communities in Chile. shorturl.at/sq2w3

🚨Call for papers🚨 3rd Annual World Bank Conference on Transport Economics, March 14, 2025. Washington, DC. Young researchers are invited to submit papers by December 30, 2024. Keynote lecture by Treb Allen. Details here: worldbank.org/en/events/2024…

Desde el Departamento de Investigacion del BID lanzamos un call for papers sobre digitalización y AI en América Latina y el Caribe. Buscamos propuestas en diferentes areas como educación, salud y mercados laborales. Fecha límite: 16 de octubre. Mas info: research-proposals.iadb.org/en/node/8269

📢¿Interesada/o en aprender más sobre de Stata/R/Python? Las notas de Nicolás Campos Bijit (Nicolás Campos Bijit), aún en proceso, son un muy buen recurso. ¡Gracias por compartirlas, Nicolás! ¡Y lo mejor de todo es que están en español! sites.google.com/view/nicocampo…

Glad to see our paper with Tomer Stern, "Women's Participation in the Arab Spring Protests and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence: Evidence From Egypt," came out in a special issue on VAW, Conflicts, and Disasters Feminist Economics: tandfonline.com/eprint/E8QZUJ2… #econtwitter NU Economics