Drawing on varied empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa, researchers argue that women’s conversion to new Christian churches may be an attempt to pursue emancipation, subtly undermining clan authority.

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🆕Why are so many women in Africa converting to Christianity? Today on VoxDev, Pablo Álvarez-Aragón (University of Bologna), Catherine Guirkinger (Namur School of Economics) & Jean-Philippe Platteau discuss their research on women's religious conversion in Africa: https://ow.ly/Guj850ZaYI4

J'ai réalisé pour @franceculture.fr un podcast sur l'histoire des méthodes que les économistes ont développé pour donner une valeur, ou un prix, aux "choses de la vie" depuis 100 ans La série de 10 (courts) épisodes est ici: www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

La valeur des choses de la vie : un podcast à écouter en ligne

Comment les économistes fixent-ils la valeur des choses, matérielles ou immatérielles, qui composent notre quotidien ? L’historienne de l’économie Béatrice Cherrier nous éclaire sur les débats qui ont...

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Everyone knew the 2025 US aid freeze would devastate HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa. Now the evidence is emerging New working paper, real service data from 4 NGOs in Uganda & Zimbabwe: prevention ↓60%, testing ↓50%, treatment ↓30%. #HIV #PEPFAR #USAID

"Mesure des attitudes et des #stéréotypes de #genre dans l’enfance : une approche expérimentale dans les collèges #malgaches" par Hugues Champeaux @hugchampeaux.bsky.social, Yannick Malalanirina et Francesca Marchetta Article publié dans le cadre de PAIRES projet AFD-IRD paires.hypotheses.org/2541

Mesure des attitudes et des stéréotypes de genre dans l’enfance : une approche expérimentale dans les collèges malgaches

Hugues Champeaux, Yannick Malalanirina et Francesca Marchetta La mesure des stéréotypes de genre est un enjeu majeur en science sociale quantitative lorsqu’il s’agit d’évaluer ou de suivre dans le tem...

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📢 New paper accepted at Economics of Education Review! @simonbriole.bsky.social “From teacher quality to teaching quality: Instructional productivity and teaching practices” 1/N #EconSky #EconomicsOfEducationReview

Professor Seema Jayachandran (@seema_econ) recently joined the Vox Dev Economics podcast with co-author Alessandra Voena to discuss their new new review paper, "Women’s Power in the Household." Listen: https://bit.ly/448YAdt

Women’s power at home

What has economic research taught us about women’s power in the household?

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Legalizing recreational marijuana reduces suicides among older white Americans.

We are delighted to announce our next webinar on: 📆 December 16th at 3pm (CET time). To attend the event, please register using this link: shorturl.at/cxy4Y

How to get honest answers to sensitive survey questions? Our WP introduces the ballot-bag, a new method that is both precise and unbiased, improving on existing approaches such as list experiments. Joint work with Bruno Crépon and Ahmed Elsayed. #econsky www.iza.org/publications...

The 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, sponsored by @au-spa.bsky.social, will be held July 8–9, 2026 in Cagliari, Italy! 🇮🇹 Keynote: Paolo Pinotti Organizers: Erdal Tekin & Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Marco Nieddu 📅 Deadline: Mar 6, 2026 📄 Submit: www.american.edu/spa/risky-be...

Caroline aura tenté du mieux qu'elle pouvait de se reconstruire. Mais la blessure était trop profonde. Elle a choisi de se donner la mort ce lundi 1er septembre, jour de la rentrée scolaire. (1/9)

🆕 How some development projects undermine Africa’s pastoral communities, sparking violence Today on VoxDev, Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University) & Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia) outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Displaced and divided: How some development projects undermine Africa’s pastoral communities, sparking violence

Pastoral regions of Africa are witnessing a sharp increase in armed civil conflict. Research has identified ‘mismatched’ agricultural development projects as one major factor driving this violence by ...

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1/ 🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨 Excited to share our latest research: “Female Firstborn and Family Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa”! on how firstborn daughters influence family structure, marriage, and fertility @mariahdb.bsky.social #EconSky #DevelopmentEconomics #EconPhD www.nber.org/papers/w33505 ⬇️

Firstborn Daughters and Family Structure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Grateful for @kbeegle.bsky.social 's thoughtful deep dive on our new paper & a related study—we find that a couples training program in Rwanda, meant to reduce IPV, unexpectedly increased it, raising important questions on backlash & spillovers. Paper 🔗: openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...

Kathleen Beegle@kbeegle.bsky.social · 2y ago

Read up on work that finds significant backlash from couple intervention to reduce IPV… scaling up and spillovers matter!