Danila Serra
@danilaserra-eco.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. Experiments on corruption, gender, education. #firstgen https://people.tamu.edu/~dserra/
🔥Double celebrations this week🔥 Our new JDE publication and the notification of my promotion to FULL professor of economics! Updating my CV 👇
Eeshani Kandpal@eeshani.bsky.social · 6mo agoNow forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics! With @alessandracassar.bsky.social, (the newly-minted Dr.) @mirandainez.bsky.social, Christine Mbabaze Mpyangu, and @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social
Our findings 20 years post conflict: Childhood trauma from conflict has lasting psychological and social effects that may be missed by standard economic measures. 📣 Child abductions are still tragically commonplace in conflicts around the worldtoday. cgdev.org/publication/ch…
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Danila Serra@danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 9mo ago📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣 ➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social
📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣 ➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social
Eeshani Kandpal@eeshani.bsky.social · 9mo ago📢 In a new paper with @alessandracassar.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social Christine Mbabaze Mpyangu @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social, we study how childhood abductions cast a long shadow into adulthood among women in northern Uganda. Blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/childho... #gender #conflict #mentalhealth
Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up. Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... @aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky
CeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty
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As my sabbatical visit to BU ends, I say goodbye to all the wonderful Boston-based people who have welcome me. Ending the semester with a classic: #selfiewithsue @dynarski.bsky.social
Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
Tight labor markets in the last decade reduced US community college enrollment. Super interesting pic here showing just how countercyclical community college enrollment is (as compared to basically non-cyclical 4 year college enrollment) From @joshua-goodman.com & Winkelman new NBER WP
Y’all, this CSWEP newsletter is a banger. Five women economists generously share their stories about navigating family and career. 🔥 @jialanw.bsky.social @kmpjones.bsky.social Sarah Hamersma, Kosali Simon, and Sarah Baird. It was an honor to "edit" (which mostly involved sitting back for good reads)
CSWEP@aeacswep.bsky.social · 10mo agoCSWEP News Issue IV, "Focus on Fertility" by @caitlinmyers.bsky.social is out now. www.aeaweb.org/content/file...
Stay tuned for follow-up, where we conduct an RCT involving vulnerable women in this area - half abducted as children - to assess the impact of: 1) cash only 2) cash+group life-skill training 3) cash+group mental health counseling W/ @eeshani.bsky.social & @mirandainez.bsky.social
David Evans@daveevansphd.bsky.social · 10mo agoWhat's the long-term impact of being abducted during an armed conflict? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... In Uganda, 20 years after the conflict: "Formerly abducted women still exhibit significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, heightened stress responses..."
Thanks @daveevansphd.bsky.social ! The most challenging fieldwork, but such important (and sad) findings. Plugging @mirandainez.bsky.social who has done more work on men & women who were abducted as children. She studies how this childhood trauma impacts IPV later in life #econjobmarket
David Evans@daveevansphd.bsky.social · 10mo agoWhat's the long-term impact of being abducted during an armed conflict? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... In Uganda, 20 years after the conflict: "Formerly abducted women still exhibit significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, heightened stress responses..."
What's the long-term impact of being abducted during an armed conflict? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... In Uganda, 20 years after the conflict: "Formerly abducted women still exhibit significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, heightened stress responses..."
📣Job Candidate Alert🚨 I am @mirandainez.bsky.social’s co-chair at TAMU Econ w/ @eckelc.bsky.social Her JMP is a super interesting analysis of the impacts of childhood victimization on domestic violence in adulthood, leveraging the quasi-randomness of child abductions in Uganda in 80s & 90s [1/n]
Miranda Lambert @mirandainez.bsky.social · 10mo agoI'm on the #EconJobMarket!🥳 My research examines how childhood trauma from violence shapes household violence in adulthood. My #EconJMP asks: How do trauma histories interact with their partners' experiences to shape intimate partner violence and violence against children? 🧵
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
📣 BUT IS IT ECONOMICS? *New at EJ* “Research Similarity and Women in Academia,” Piera Bello, Alessandra Casarico & @deboranozza.bsky.social, on role of research similarity btw applicants & selection committees for academic promotions, and the implications for gender diversity: tinyurl.com/mrd8cpkf
Congratulations to my former student Daniel Gomez-Vasquez! Very proud advisor over here🎉🎉🎉 #econsky
American Society of Hispanic Economists@asheassa.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) is pleased to recognize Dr. Daniel Gómez-Vásquez, Assistant Professor of Economics at the College of the Holy Cross, as the recipient of the 2025 ASHE Dissertation Award. #Econsky
Do you want to learn more about @NovaSBE #PhD in #Economics and how you can pursue your doctoral studies in #DevelopmentEconomics? Do you have questions to ask? Join us online Wednesday Oct 29 | 4pm: lnkd.in/dh_XMcKX Apply here: lnkd.in/dCkjAdGc
NOVAFRICA@novafrica.bsky.social · 11mo ago🚀 Applications are open for the #PhD in #Economics at @NovaSBE ! Shape the future of #DevelopmentEconomics with hands-on research, full funding and collaboration with NOVAFRICA researchers. 🔗 Apply: www.novasbe.unl.pt/en/programs/... 🔗 More about NOVAFRICA: novafrica.org
This was a fantastic conference that I was lucky to participate in. Thanks to @alexeble.bsky.social @ashleyywong.bsky.social and the other organizers. I learned a lot!
Alex Eble@alexeble.bsky.social · 11mo agoHappening now here at @barnardcollege.bsky.social: the second incarnation of the Gender in the Global Economy Conference. Program attached - more updates to come!
It’s always great when you go to a conference and find one of your “no club” members and @aeacswep.bsky.social peer mentors in the program! @tderyugina.bsky.social
Looking forward to participating in the BIG Forum event at @biglabnd.bsky.social next month!
BIG Lab@biglabnd.bsky.social · last yr.The Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Forum is September 25-26 at Notre Dame. We'll have talks by @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social @novosad.bsky.social and @taryndinkelman.bsky.social. #econsky Register now! 👇 biglab.nd.edu/news-events/...
Seeing co-authors (@amandayagan.bsky.social Bo Cowgill Jonathan Meer) IN PERSON, seeing my @aeacswep.bsky.social Mid-Career mentoring buddy (@danilaserra-eco.bsky.social) and CeMent mentee (Amanda Chuan), and all sorts of other shenanigans that won't be posted here
Another great @nber.org summer institute has come and gone. Highlights were a great dinner with the crowd from Children/Families
#EconSky Does anybody have DHS data for Bangladesh? Or is there a webpage where somebody managed to save previously available DHS data? Thank you for your help!
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky
Great overview by @um-psc.bsky.social of our new review in @science.org about brain gain! #EconSky #Migration
UM Population Studies Center@um-psc.bsky.social · last yr.👀 Smaller, lower-income countries often rue the loss of high-skilled workers who emigrate for greater opportunities, but PSC's @deanyang.bsky.social @umfordschool.bsky.social et al find this out-migration often comes with positive feedback loops for countries of origin. myumi.ch/rAwer #EconSky
I gave a keynote address today at the AEA CTREE conference and I used my hands A LOT! (My husband was in the audience for the first time ever, and took photographic evidence of my insane use of Italian hands!🤷♀️)
In Palo Alto for a talk and so glad I was able to see Kalena last night (despite flight cancellations and rescheduling)
Thrilled to share the cover of my upcoming book, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. @flatironbooks.bsky.social, Sept 23! Containing 15 years of research & my personal story. Preorder links, book talks, & newsletter here! corinnelow.com/book
The one good news of the week is that @econcath.bsky.social & I were together in Lancaster as our paper “Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models” (AEJ: Applied, 2020) reached 600 citations while we work on the follow-up study🎊 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
