A survey of 4,000 women in urban India finds that fear of street harassment shapes whether 70 percent of them work. Past-year victimization is especially high in Delhi, at 65 percent, from Lori A. Beaman, @seema.bsky.social, and Anisha Sharma www.nber.org/papers/w35738

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

⏰ 5 days left to submit to the 18th Nordic Conference on Behavioral & Experimental Economics in Helsinki 🇫🇮 📅 Sept 25–26, 2026 🎓 PhD Course: Sept 24 🎤 Keynotes: Sandro Ambühl (UZH) & Kirby Nielsen (Caltech) ⏳ Deadline: May 31 More Details 👇 sites.google.com/view/ncbee-2...

A little review of our In_equality Conference 2026: www.campus.uni-konstanz.de/en/science/i... @uni-konstanz.de

REMINDER: Less than three weeks left to submit for our Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, featuring keynotes by @peterbergman.bsky.social and Esther Duflo 👏 💪 🚀 Please send your best papers! 🙏 All infos 👇 #AcademicConference #CallForPapers #ResearchCommunity #EconResearch

Henning Hermes@henninghermes.com · 9mo ago

📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨 #EconSky

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Silvia Castro @LMU_Muenchen who works on topics related to gender, organizational economics + development

The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)

Recently accepted by #QJE: “Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict,” by Gehring (@kaigehring.bsky.social) and Schaudt (@paulschaudt.bskz.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict*

Abstract. We provide quasi-experimental evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate drought-induced co

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Rare sighting in the latest JDE #econtwitter #econsky: a paper about Somalia! Brar et al. show that an intervention targeting gender norms shifts support for gender-equitable norms + aspirations; novel lab-in-the-field evidence of enhanced ability to withstand peer pressure

New NBER working paper with Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs. I'd never found a review article on this topic that met my needs as a PhD class reading, so we sought to fill this gap. NBER : www.nber.org/papers/w34605 Ungated: seemajayachandran.com/womens_power_JEL.pdf

Excited to post the latest version of my JMP: The female labor supply constraints of spousal jealousy bit.ly/4nn9apn I use two field experiments to study the role of spousal jealousy in constraining married women’s employment. More below 👇:

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving." Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Seema Jayachandran@seema.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

🆕 Demand for ‘safe space’: How women-only transit cars reduced harassment while reinforcing harmful gender norms in Brazil @fkondylis.bsky.social (World Bank), Arianna Legovini, @katevyborny.bsky.social‬, Astrid Zwager & Luiza Andrade (@devinnovationlab.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/infras...

Demand for ‘safe space’: How women-only transit cars reduced harassment while reinforcing harmful gender norms in Brazil

Women-only spaces offer a quick fix for those facing higher risk of harassment but reflect and may reinforce the idea that women are responsible for preventing their own victimisation.

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📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social): 👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a... A 🧵 1/9

@jisteinert.bsky.social, Andreas Landmann, and I are organizing a Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics in July! Goal is to strengthen the regional network among PhD students in Bavaria who work on DevEcon. Please spread the word and apply/drop by! :) Deadline May 4. tinyurl.com/zzem65nx

Ever look around at your friends/colleagues/neighbors all having kids at the same time as you + feel like you should do what they do? Fascinating new paper in AEJ-App shows us that you're not alone, + those peer influences matter! @BarbaraBoelmann #econtwitter #econsky

In addition to being morally wrong this is also just plain old wrong as shown by research by @kevinshih.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do international students crowd-out or cross-subsidize Americans in higher education?

Recent growth in international enrollment at U.S. universities has raised controversy. While critics accuse international students of displacing Ameri…

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Georg Weizsäcker@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'" www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Out today in World Development Perspectives: Our paper on #ethics & #equity failures faced by research staff collecting data in LMIC contexts 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social

Ethics and Equity: Addressing Violations of the Belmont Report principles for research staff

Particularly in development research, data is often collected in settings characterised by high deprivation, risk and power asymmetries, which aggrava…

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What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Today's #econjmp by @rollykapoor.bsky.social is an RCT with women seeking jobs in Delhi. Matching them with other job-searching women and coordinating interview times makes them much more likely to show up for an interview & job-seeking together then persists blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

Finding strength in numbers: Improving women's job search through coordinated travel in urban India. Guest post by Rolly Kapoor

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I am on the #EconJobMarket ! 🚨 JMP Alert 🚨 Individuals fail to incorporate information held by their spouses. Is it because they are generally reluctant to learn from their spouse? In my #JMP, I show: NO! It's because communication is challenging in the absence of expertise. 🧵below:

Excited to share my #JMP!🎉 "Do NGOs Matter for Development? Evidence from Pakistan" NGOs often fill gaps left by limited public spending on health, education, etc.📚🏥But do NGOs truly move the needle on development? Let’s dive in!👇🧵[/10] (www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pe7oz...)

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