Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony* Abstract. This article investigates whether virtual contact, initiated through a documentary film, can promote interethnic harmony. We carried out a cluste

#QJE May 2026, #10, “Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony,” by Siddique (@absidd.bsky.social), Vlassopoulos, and Zenou (@yveszenou.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

📢 Come and join our EcHo Summer School in Economics of Health & Human Capital!

🗓 12–15 May 2026 | Stewart House, London

Lectures, individual feedback sessions & a 2-day research workshop for PhD students and early-career researchers.

Full details & sign-up 👇
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Call for Papers: Economics of Health & Human Capital
Organised by EcHo Royal Holloway

🗓️ May 14–15, 2026 | Stewart House, London
⏰ Deadline: March 20, 2026
Keynote: Leverhulme Visiting Professor Martin Karlsson
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#HealthEconomics #EconSky #CallforPapers #rhulecon

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: Parents in the classroom: strengthening government capacity to deliver early childhood education

📗 Read Bet Caeyers, Lina Cardona Sosa, @Sarah_Cattan, Sonya Krutikova and @absidd.bsky.social's paper on the Lively Minds programme in Ghana here: ifs.org.uk/publications...

Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony* Abstract. This paper investigates whether virtual contact, initiated through a documentary film, can promote interethnic harmony. We carried out a cluster-

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Leveraging Virtual Contact and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony,” by Siddique (@absidd.bsky.social), Vlassopoulos, and Zenou (@yveszenou.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Great summer school & conference on social and economic networks, organized by @yveszenou.bsky.social

I have contacted the editorial offices to formally disassociate myself from these papers. It's painful, but it's right! 3/3

..as I can no longer endorse the findings of these papers. Had I known about these things earlier, I would not have agreed to coauthor the papers in question. As a coauthor I deserve full disclosure, so I can make my own choice about a paper. 2/3

🚨 Recently, I took a major decision by withdrawing my name from a series of papers on covid that I coauthored. After realizing that several crucial pieces of information about the design had been withheld from me by the team, I decided to withdraw myself,... 1/3

Brick Lane at night #London

This workshop was amazing last year! Greece is beautiful! #econsky

Sneak peek at our new edutainment project on children's health in Bangladesh! 🇧🇩 #econsky

Fitness and muscle strength could halve cancer patient deaths, study suggests Analysis shows patients need to exercise and keep their weight down to reap maximum benefit

TWO studies for your lecture or problem set on omitted variable bias

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

🚨 We are hosting the 1st IZA PhD Workshop in Labor and Behavioral Economics in Bonn (June 12-13, 2025)🚨

🗣️ Keynotes by @sydneecaldwell.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) and Chris Roth (U Cologne)

👉 Submissions (Jan 31) conference.iza.org/PhD_LaborBeh...

Please share and apply!

Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place.

psantanna.com/did-resources

There, you will find
- 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course
- Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD
- My DiD R/Stata/Python packages
- Some DiD checklists
- DiD materials from my friends

Enjoy!

🚨 Christmas WP Alert 🚨
New study explores the causal impact of correcting misperceived gender norms on mothers' employment attitudes and expectations. Using a field experiment with German mothers of young children, we find three key results:
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#EconSky

Joint with DAMS

I'm visiting my wonderful coauthor & friend Yves Zenou at Monash in February. I'll be in Melbourne for 3 weeks from Feb 9-28. Would love to connect with new people there 😃 I'll then spend a week at my sister's in Armidale, NSW. Really miss my nephew & niece! So excited about 🇦🇺

But at least that's online, cheap, and faster..

If someone is studying why minority academics have poor networks, note that this is a major reason. These small hurdles add up! 3/3

At every step, it feels like various policies punch you in the face, reminding you that you're from a poor country and must stay within your boundaries. This is what it feels like to be a minority: discrimination and suppression at every single step. 2/3

Learned today that you need a visa to transit through the US even if you remain in the airport's controlled space for a connecting flight within 3-4 hours. Life is already difficult with visas required for destination countries; this adds another cost. Weak passports = hell! 1/3

Toward an Understanding of the Political Economy of Using Fi Field experiments provide the clearest window into the true impact of many policies, allowing us to understand what works, what does not, and why. Yet, their widespread use has not been accompanied by

Field Experiments have matured from academic curiosity to bona fide contributor to knowledge in the past few decades. Yet, the political economy of their deployment in government remains ill-understood. We provide insights in a new working paper, available here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

I did as well. I guess I'll have more info tomorrow.

Given the situation, can people present via zoom?

#AEA email says the conference will take place in hotels affected by strike, but will people join online & avoid crossing the picket line? If that's the case, then I don't see a point of flying from London to SF & be forced to cross a picket line, only to end up at a conference with no one #econsky

Uncounted: how survey implementation methods miss 3 million annual cases of intimate partner violence worldwide. Guest post by Katherine Theiss

Respondents who received evening surveys (4pm-8pm) were 2.8 percentage points less likely than respondents who received morning surveys (6am-12pm) to self-report IPV - today's #econjmp by Katherine Theiss (Fordham) on how survey methods affect IPV estimates blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...