Molt content amb la posada en marxa del nou Dual Degree entre la Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu i Kings’ College @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social a Londres. Tota la informació aquí: www.ub.edu/mipe/#dual 1/7 👇
Can giving youth & their families better information about the benefits of education change their lives?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@AcostaAminaM & I review interventions in Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean.
Now out in International Journal of Educational Development!
Global food insecurity hasn’t improved much since 2022. But aid has dropped sharply, including in countries with large food-insecure populations.
@charlesjkenny.bsky.social argues aid should be better targeted to crises across Africa, South Asia, & Central America:
https://go.cgdev.org/3MA5iDB
It was so interesting to visit Prof Mar Grasa’s lab @biologiaub.bsky.social to learn how the hair samples from teens & parents in our @erc.europa.eu LEAD study are processed to obtain cortisol, a key stress marker.
Stay tuned to learn if the parenting program we tested in 🇬🇭 has impacted stress!
We are going to have our next meeting in the fall of 2026 - stay tuned for more updates and reach out if you are based in BCN and want to participate!
Last but not least Enoch Ntisiful, one of our PhD student at @ubeconomics.bsky.social, has presented interesting work on housing quality and energy poverty in South Africa
We continued with Elena Perra, a recent hire @economiaempresaub.bsky.social, who presented exciting evidence on oil spills and development in Nigeria
Then we had Anqi Ye, a PhD student from @upf.edu, who presented on the effects of health care reform on rural-urban migration in China
We started with John Egyir (@ubeconomics.bsky.social) presenting an experiment eliciting beliefs, preferences and constraints driving parenting styles choices in urban GHana
Full house for the first BCN-Dev meeting @ubeconomics.bsky.social! 🎉🎉
Every semester, we’ll bring together economists focusing on low and middle income countries to establish a community and a supportive forum for #earlycareer researchers to present work-in-progress (1/n)
Excited that our comment on focusing research and policies on #inequality from #children’s perspectives has been published @commspsychol.nature.com! Thanks to @kidlab.bsky.social’s Eddie Brummelmann for leading this interdisciplinary effort @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social & @CIFAR for supporting us!
Che meraviglia!! Tanti auguri Eugenio!
Exciting news: I'm on the #econjobmarket this year!
Thank you so much @lidiafarre.bsky.social for the guidance and support!
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
📣Hi #EconSky! I am on the job market! 📣
My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓
The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑🧒🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮.
For more: sevinkaytan.com
Gracias Jorge Garcia y @mariahdb.bsky.social por este articulo sobre SPANDE en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social!! 🤩
Nuestros objectivos son:
- Fortecer la comunidad de economistas que trabajan en paises a renta baja o mediana
- Suportar NGOs o instituciones a evaluar de manera rigorosa sus programas
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Full house for the third #SPANDE workshop start!! Thanks @mariahdb.bsky.social and Jorge Garcia Hombrados for organising and @fundacionareces.bsky.social for supporting!! See program below 👇🏾
En Madrid este martes!!! 👇🏾👇🏾
go.bsky.app/9mZrrpQ thanks @jfledderjohann.bsky.social to compile this starting pack on #FoodSecurity amd #Nutrition! Here’s the link for anyone who’s interested in joining the conversation! 👇🏾
What an issue!!! So proud of my @ubeconomics.bsky.social @fundacioieb.bsky.social colleagues @matteogamalerio.bsky.social and Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuela that stroke not one, but TWO articles in this month issue of AEJ:Policy!! 😻
I had the chance to join the wonderful “Teachers’ voices” @boldinsights.bsky.social, my very first podcast!!
Grateful for the chance to talk about parental education engagement and add my “researcher voice” to the ones of teachers from around the 🌍
Listen here 👇🏾
Since childhood, I always loved the thrill of starting a new notebook 🤓
Today especially excited to start this new one featuring Ghanaian writers that we designed to thank the 2,400 kids participating in our @erc.europa.eu LEAD study! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
@poverty-action.bsky.social
After the US, basic science is in danger also in the EU! Let’s raise our voices to protect the autonomy and independence of the @erc.europa.eu! Read our statement below 👇🏾
1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
Thanks Kari! I did not know gps and shapefiles were available too - what an awesome website!!! 🙏🏽
A line graph showing the number of countries where smallpox was endemic from 1920 to 1980. There are five colored lines representing different regions: Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. The y-axis indicates the number of countries, ranging from 0 to 50, while the x-axis marks the years from 1920 to 1980. Each region's line trends downward, reflecting a decline in endemic countries over the years. Significant events are marked with dashed vertical lines: in 1959, the WHO resolved to aim for eradication; in 1967, an intensified eradication campaign began; 1977 marks the last recorded case; and in 1980, smallpox was declared eradicated. A note at the bottom specifies that the precise year of elimination in Oceania is only known for Australia (1917) and New Zealand (1914). Additionally, data sources are cited as Fenner, Henderson, Arita, Jezek, and Ladnyi (1988) and the graph is attributed to Saloni Dattani, licensed under CC-BY. The source of the data is Our World in Data, which focuses on research and measures against global issues.
Smallpox declined gradually, until the WHO coordinated the global effort to eradicate it 🧵
This post estimates that proposed USAID cuts will cost almost a million lives
www.cgdev.org/blog/millio...
Has anyone archived all the materials that were previously in the DHS website?
Right! That would be great, actually. We should do it if no-one has done it!!
Hoy en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social comentamos nuestro estudio con @juditvall.bsky.social y Caoimhe T Rice sobre cómo el acceso a la sanidad pública influye en las denuncias por violencia de género: