#SocialSafetyNet interventions fight #poverty. But they also 💫 empower #women. A new study with participation of HfP Professor @jisteinert.bsky.social, based on data from over 200,000 women, finds that: Especially, unconditional 💵 cash transfers can advance #GenderEquality. 🌈 @tum.de @nature.com
👉I was surprised to learn that birth order is a more important determinant for early-life development in Central Asia. If you work on health economics, I recommend to check this work by @jisteinert.bsky.social, Cara Ebert and Manzura Jumaniyazova:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
How can policy address #intimatepartnerviolence and why do we need better data? 💡
Join us 16 Oct, 18:00 at @hertieschool.bsky.social for a discussion with @jisteinert.bsky.social, Miriam Schroer-Hippel, Christina Boll and more! Details & registration ⬇️
🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
📣Join us for this year's Early Career Workshop and Fall Meeting on Health Economics and Development Cooperation at @tum.de, hosted by @nsud.bsky.social and myself!
Please submit your paper abstracts by July 14 - more information below ⬇️
New 📝
"Empowerment Paradox? The Long-Run Impact of a Cycling Program for Girls in Zambia"👀
✍️ @garciahdezana.bsky.social Nishith Prakash, Janina Isabel Steinert
How a program empowered women & reduced violence, but paradoxically coincided with early marriage & pregnancy:
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence
The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
I am looking forward to tomorrow's 3D seminar that promises an engaging dialogue on how to protect women from violence in challenging conditions.
Continued routine childhood vaccination at high coverage is needed to prevent resurgence of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their infection-related complications in the US.
ja.ma/3YeEcVv #MedSky
@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
What is needed:
➡️Increased awareness of economic abuse
➡️Gender-egalitarian legislation
➡️Culturally sensitive interventions
➡️More longitudinal research on economic abuse
Key findings:
✔️Economic abuse includes refusal to contribute financially, restricting access to shared housing, bride price and dowry-related tactics & exploitation of women’s labor
✔️Marriage practices & patrilocality are key risks
✔️Economic abuse leads to poor health & financial hardship
New paper out with the brilliant @sangeet.bsky.social: "Economic Abuse in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review"
👉journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1524838...
The NIH is cancelling dozens of grants involving vaccines, including a project that studied whether the COVID vax is safe for breastfeeding mothers. mRNA vaccine research is next on the chopping block. Story @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Internationaler Weltfrauentag in München ♀️💙💪
Some history and philosophy of science about into why this matters- traditionally medical and biological research has studied male animals much more than females. To this day there is still a skew 1
www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
❌We do not observe greater violence in states with higher mobility reductions, lower day care capacity for childcare or higher COVID-19 infection numbers
✔️But our cross-sectional household-level data suggests that home quarantine & financial distress may have been triggers of violence
@tum.de
What we find:
➡️Requests at helplines increased significantly by 34% with the first lockdown
➡️Requests at shelters increased by 14% only after the lockdown
👉This means: Women substituted ambulatory care with helpline calls during the lockdown
New paper co-authored with Dr. Cara Ebert @rwi.bsky.social: What was the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violence against women in Germany?
We analyse longitudinal data on help requests to helplines & shelters + survey data from the first pandemic wave
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Folgen der Suspendierung von USAID: "Wir sprechen darüber, eine zweite Welle einer globalen HIV-Epidemie auszulösen, die weitgehend unter Kontrolle gebracht wurde."
www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
Very important work on #ethics in #fieldresearch. We have to establish adequate structures and standards to ensure #equity and #safety in international research, and, importantly, we need funders to allow for, even demand these structures.
#EconSky #GlobalHealth
We propose solutions at structural, project, and individual levels to ensure staff wellbeing, improve ethical integrity, and enhance data rigour
Based on 57 semi-structured interviews with research staff across hierarchies (data collectors, PhD students, PIs...) and world regions, we identify structural, country, and individual-level challenges leading to ethical failures like insecurity, distress, and exploitation
Out today in World Development Perspectives: Our paper on #ethics & #equity failures faced by research staff collecting data in LMIC contexts
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
Thrilled that our report "CONTENT WARNING: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression", launched today, has received a very warm reception by the media!
📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02...
More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇
An estimated 300,000 people standing up for democracy in Munich today ❤️❤️❤️
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Digitale Gewalt treibt demokratische Stimmen aus den Parlamenten. @yvonnemagwas.bsky.social ist kein Einzelfall. Wir müssen verhindern, dass nicht nur die übrig bleiben, die Hetze verbreiten. Denn Hass darf nicht regieren. Das sind unsere Forderungen: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p...
I knew Shakespeare would have a line for today.
