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Frank Schilbach

@fschilbach.bsky.social

Behavioral and development economist at MIT studying poverty, sleep, alcohol, mental health, and loneliness

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NBER@nber.org · 6mo ago

In an Indian college, 56% screen for depression/anxiety yet only 3% use free therapy. In an RCT, incentives boost take-up and screening improves targeting. A combination does both, from Breza, Carney, Raghavan, Rajah, Rangaswamy, Rao, Schilbach, Shadbar, and Stratton www.nber.org/papers/w34819

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field@wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New research on postpartum depression as a mechanism of the motherhood penalty (i.e., mothers' reduced lifetime earnings) in Denmark "The penalties are concentrated among less educated mothers and those in less family-friendly jobs." (Application to the US is left as an exercise for the reader)

EconPapers: Postpartum Depression and the Motherhood Penalty

By Bhalotra. Sonia, N. Meltem Daysal, Louis Freget, Jonas Cuzulan Hirani, Priyama Majumdar, Mircea Trandafir, Miriam Wust and Tom Zohar; Abstract: Using Danish administrative data linked to two independent, validated postpartum depression screenings, we study how

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John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What would it cost to end extreme poverty? "We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year." "The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."

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Duncan Webb@duncanwebb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🔥Very cool paper showing that women in India are way more likely to take up a job (↑29%) in a female-only workplace, and that this can be explained by husbands' jealousy/desire for control. These are massive effects, equivalent to 2.5x increases in wage bit.ly/4nn9apn

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Tatyana Deryugina@tderyugina.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter

Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

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VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

Cash transfers improve sleep quality for household heads but not other family members, revealing how financial pressures burden those responsible for providing. Read today's article to learn more:

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 Breadwinner’s burden: How financial relief improved sleep and cognition in Indonesia Today on VoxDev, Claire Duquennois (University of Pittsburgh) & Maulik Jagnani (@tufts.edu) discuss how cash transfers helped relieve the financial pressure on breadwinners: voxdev.org/topic/social...

Ursina Schaede@ursina.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited that Tufts is hosting NEUDC this fall! Spread the word and send us your finest work by Aug 17. t.co/fxMQPJRgAR

https://editorialexpress.com/conference/TuftsNEUDC2025/

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Laura K Gee@laurakgee.bsky.social · last yr.

Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025! 📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... More details to come! #NEUDC #NEUDC2025

Jing Li@jingli-econ.bsky.social · last yr.

In "Colluding Against Environmental Regulation," we study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation, applied to a case study about automakers and diesel vehicle emissions. With Jorge Alé-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, and Mathias Reynaert. @reveconstudies.bsky.social

The Review of Economic Studies (REStud)@reveconstudies.bsky.social · last yr.

Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Colluding against Environmental Regulation," from Alé-Chilet, Chen, @jingli-econ.bsky.social and Reynaert: www.restud.com/colluding-ag... #EconSky #REStud #pollution #regulation #collusion

Dina Pomeranz@dinapomeranz.bsky.social · last yr.

Open letter by 700+ Jewish faculty in US on Trump's Columbia funding cuts, supposedly against antisemitism: "Not on our behalf. Harming US Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers does not protect Jewish people."

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Rachel Glennerster@rglenner.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you to @charlesjkenny.bsky.social, @justsand.bsky.social and others @cgdev.org whose careful data work underpins this important and devastating article by @nickkristof.bsky.social in @nytimes.com. A great eg of combining data with the human face of that data.

Seema Jayachandran@seema.bsky.social · last yr.

"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof

Filipe Campante@filipecampante.bsky.social · last yr.

This is very important. If you’re still out there saying that they’re coming after X, Y or Z “because of woke”, then you’re part of the problem.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · last yr.

Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.