Phoebe W. Ishak (@phoebeishak) 's Twitter Profile
Phoebe W. Ishak

@phoebeishak

Economist @WorldBank | Affiliate @iza_bonn @ERFlatest | Formerly post-doc at @amseaixmars @FU_Berlin | Alumna @unihh #EconTwitter

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Phoebe W. Ishak (@phoebeishak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to see this finally online 😊 Had pleasure working on one of the world's forgotten conflicts in #Yemen & contribute to understanding how it has shaped women status. Check out the below thread by my co-author Yashodhan Ghorpade!

David Evans (@daveevansphd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Esta 'multa de pobreza femenina' durante algunos de los años más productivos y fértiles de la vida de las personas es alta en América Latina y el Caribe en comparación con la mayoría de las otras regiones." blogs.worldbank.org/es/latinameric… por Buitrago-Hernández et al.

"Esta 'multa de pobreza femenina' durante algunos de los años más productivos y fértiles de la vida de las personas es alta en América Latina y el Caribe en comparación con la mayoría de las otras regiones." blogs.worldbank.org/es/latinameric… por Buitrago-Hernández et al.
Phoebe W. Ishak (@phoebeishak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On celebrating #InternationalWomensDay, happy to share my latest WorldBank blog revealing some important facts on poverty and women in Latin America. #EconTwitter blogs.worldbank.org/latinamerica/p… via WorldBank

Phoebe W. Ishak (@phoebeishak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢For the second year in a row, my article "Oil price shocks, protest & shadow economy" is a #TopCitedArticle in Economics & Politics (@WileyEconomics Wiley in research)😊 Full article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

📢For the second year in a row, my article "Oil price shocks, protest &amp; shadow economy" is a #TopCitedArticle in Economics &amp; Politics (@WileyEconomics <a href="/wileyinresearch/">Wiley in research</a>)😊
Full article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Phoebe W. Ishak (@phoebeishak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢Another WP on #Women in #Africa is finally out😊 We show that income shocks witnessed in early life enhance future educational attainment, but reduce it if experienced in adolescence, especially for women.

Banco Mundial | América Latina y el Caribe (@bancomundiallac) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Las mujeres que trabajan en América Latina y el Caribe ganan, en promedio, 70 centavos por cada dólar que ganan los hombres. Este blog explora datos de 16 países de la región y explica qué podemos hacer en favor de la #IgualdadSalarial. wrld.bg/cN9k50TquEY

Phoebe W. Ishak (@phoebeishak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Working women in Latin America earn, on average, 70 cents for every dollar earned by men. But the reality of gender disparities in labor income is much more complex. 🔭Check out my latest blog #EqualPayDay #InternationalEqualPayDay blogs.worldbank.org/en/latinameric… via WorldBank

Luis Felipe López-Calva (@lflopezcalva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Persistent territorial inequalities often stem from the uneven capacity of the state to provide public services across different regions. Addressing these challenges requires spatial thinking in policy design, incorporating three key principles: · Differentiated policies that

Persistent territorial inequalities often stem from the uneven capacity of the state to provide public services across different regions. Addressing these challenges requires spatial thinking in policy design, incorporating three key principles:

· Differentiated policies that
Kurtis Lockhart (@kurtislockhart) 's Twitter Profile Photo

African cities need to build if they’re going to accommodate the ~900 million people moving in btw now and 2050. 🌆 But an African YIMBY mvt will have to go beyond just upzoning & reforming land use regulations. It must address underlying factor markets: land, capital, & labor

Phoebe W. Ishak (@phoebeishak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exciting announcement - after 5 years of work, my paper on resource-induced income windfalls and education in #Africa is finally out🎊A Thread will follow after celebration 🥳 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Exciting announcement - after 5 years of work, my paper on resource-induced income windfalls and education in #Africa is finally out🎊A Thread will follow after celebration 🥳

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…
Amory Gethin (@amorygethin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to announce that with Emmanuel Saez we are making our working hours database publicly available. It covers hours worked in 160 countries, including long time series in 87 countries. Hope it can be useful for research and feedback welcome! 👇 🔗amory-gethin.fr/data.html

Excited to announce that with Emmanuel Saez we are making our working hours database publicly available. It covers hours worked in 160 countries, including long time series in 87 countries. Hope it can be useful for research and feedback welcome! 👇
🔗amory-gethin.fr/data.html
Sean Westwood (@seanjwestwood) 's Twitter Profile Photo

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion.  Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee.  Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments.  Current
turing_hamster (@turing_hamster) 's Twitter Profile Photo

one of the best gifts you can give your child is one of the simplest, and completely free (in terms of money) the "30 Million Word Gap" study is one of the most cited pieces of research in early childhood education researchers followed 42 families for 2.5 years, recording every

one of the best gifts you can give your child is one of the simplest, and completely free (in terms of money)

the "30 Million Word Gap" study is one of the most cited pieces of research in early childhood education

researchers followed 42 families for 2.5 years, recording every
Phoebe W. Ishak (@phoebeishak) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A great start of the year is just being featured in Jessica Leight cool young researcher list 🎊 Grateful for your support and for featuring my research. Wait for more 😉