📣 #CallForPaper. La Lima School of Economics y el Departamento de Economía de la UDEP invita a jóvenes académicos a presentar sus papers en el 10.° Workshop para Jóvenes Economistas. 💯 📌 Envía tu paper: bit.ly/42p1A3q ➡️ Más información: bit.ly/3SdOQb6

🚨New working paper!🚨 Non-Binary Gender Economics. Gender econ has almost exclusively measured gender as binary. But 1+ million people in US identify as non-binary. Nat'l Academies + American Psych Assn recommend better measurement of gender v. bio sex. nber.org/papers/w32222

This is such an amazing resource - would strongly encourage anyone who uses DHS data, is learning about Stata coding with DHS data or teaching a course where students might use DHS data to check this out

About to publish in a scientific journal? Want to know more about specific publishers? We released The Strain Explorer, where you find data on Turnaround times, output, shares of special issues, and impact factor inflation. Here: pagoba.shinyapps.io/strain_explore… Read along for a 🧵

I am trying to organize a session for SEA November 23-25, 2024 (Saturday to Monday) in Washington DC on broad topics: agriculture, farm subsidy, property rights in developing countries. Anyone has related papers and would like to present, please DM or send me an email.

Ever wanted to make a map for a paper? I used to think it was hard, then I switched to R! With the sf and tidyverse (well, ggplot) packages, it's super straightforward. library(sf) library(tidyverse) shapefile <- read_sf(LOCATION OF .shp file)

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I am honored to be offered the job of Editor-in-Chief of Health Economics HEC Editors, replacing the excellent Sally Stearns (Global Health at UNC Gillings). I plan to reject this offer. Why?

“we show that, across U.S. tenure-track academia as a whole, women are more likely to leave their faculty jobs and less likely to be promoted than men at every career age and stage.” science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🆕article in the Journal of African Economies, "Shocks and Stability of Risk and Time Preferences among Poor Rural Households in #Ethiopia." 🖋️By Tensay Hadush Meles, Mehari Hiluf Abay, Guush Berhane, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse. 🔗doi.org/10.1093/jae/ej… CGIAR IFPRI_Africa

No lies detected. But maybe another one can be in the running too?

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"A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph summary of the proposed research, while the other half were shown a CV and a full proposal. We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact rankings." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📣Coming soon: New work on supporting econ majors - in particular women & URM students - who may be struggling. “My department cares: Supporting students through encouragement emails” w/ Daniel Gómez-Vásquez Presented last week at the Conference in Honor of Rodney J. Andrew Mot Juste

I agree with this article. AEI Economics

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That 2/3 of people in the world's most populous country get food through a public distribution system is a thing economists don't talk about as much as you'd expect.

A study of gender gaps in long-term career expectations and outcomes of PhD candidates in economics finds females are 10 percentage points less likely to expect tenure or to get published regularly, from Helppie McFall, Parolin, and Zafar nber.org/papers/w32446

Thanks so much to @monique_e_davis for presenting to the towson undergrad Econ research group! She will be on the market this coming year with a great paper on school resource officers and racial equality moniqueedavis.com