Chilling effects of BREXIT? New in JEAA @BJavorcik @BenKett1 @KathAStapleton
shows regions more exposed to barriers on professional services exports to the EU showed substantial relative ⬇️ in online job adverts post-Brexit (esp higher-skilled jobs)
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Just asked Claude for the best citation regarding a claim I'm making in a R&R and it informed me the spot-on best source for that claim was. . .the same paper
Props to Claude, I do love to cite myself
Plus exciting work in progress on a range of other topics in gender and organizational economics - check out her work!
Recognizing employee supportiveness ⬆️ knowledge sharing + mentoring, generates large productivity ⬆️ among junior loan officers.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
+ innovativeness + leadership qual
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Another paper conducts RCT w/ a large bank in Uganda, assesing an intervention recognizing informal support provided in the workplace.
Another paper w/ @FlorianEnglmai1 (R&R at Management Science) uses RCT in global healthcare company to assess intervention improving workplace norms via regular in-person meetings btw managers + staff: this ⬆️ perceived psychological safety
One paper in JDE joint w/Mang explores a discussion-based intervention around menstrual hygiene in Bangladesh. The authors find that the intervention ⬆️ valuations for well-known menstrual products + adoption of novel technologies
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Silvia Castro @LMU_Muenchen who works on topics related to gender, organizational economics + development
UNC is considering shorter degrees. . .they should check out what happened when a top Colombian university shortened degrees. Punchline: graduates' wages declined
Human capital accumulation is real
(though to be fair, I am also not going to use the coarse interface to carefully review the comments and mark "done" etc., since I've largely already addressed them). Overall: I see refine still strong on the margin, but for the very low $$, Coarse is *very* impressive
i.e., add Lee bounds, some outcomes are exploratory, etc. These comments are valid but also could apply to virtually any RCT. Slightly more repetition across comments for Coarse; one clear error. Refine interface is somewhat more user-friendly imo
The more minor comments were similar in number, but less overlap. Refine identified significantly more concrete minor errors than Coarse did (though Coarse seemed to find a couple that Refine did not). Some of the feedback from Coarse seemed slightly more general/generic:
The high-level comments: overall, they were strikingly similar. (Coarse had significantly more comments in the "high-level" bucket, some of which in fact were arguably somewhat minor; though this is semantic)
Did a head-to-head comparison of refine + coarse.ink today #econtwitter (I had used refine last week for one of my recent WPs, so I fed in the same version into coarse.) This is a paper reporting on a RCT, fairly standard development / applied micro design
Link here: docs.iza.org/dp18477...
Sobering finding #econtwitter : in Spanish unis (across disciplines), narrowly missing out on tenure has asymmetric consequences for women, nearly *60* pp less likely to be tenured (anywhere) 15 yrs later; 2X the male effect size. From @manuelbagues Giulia Vattuone @natazino
And evidence joint w/Londoño-Ortega + Henao that distance to towns + cities in Colombia has significant neg effects on standardized test scores, partly explained by difference in inputs (teachers' educational attainment + contract stability)
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A paper in JDE finds gold mining in Colombia ⬆️ primary school enrollment but ⬇️ test scores + college enrollment
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Another paper in Canadian J of Econ joint w/ @LeoMoralesZur @josepulidop @KarenPulidoM unpacks pandemic effects on the Colombian labor market + finds sector-specific mobility restrictions account for about a quarter of the total
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One published paper in ReStat joint w/Morales explores how the executive targets "jam" (what Americans call pork!) in the form of road contracts to marginal legislators, + findslegislators trageted are swing voters + the assigned projects have excess costs
direct.mit.edu/rest/...
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @LeonardoBM_dev at the Central Bank of Colombia who works on topics related to education, health, environment + development
Pope Leo is a badass
I am not Catholic, but it is phenomenal as an American to see a compatriot setting such an example of moral leadership in the world
WIP finds long-term probability of completing primary education in Peru ⬇️ after in-utero exposure
to the 1982-1983 El Niño floods
muchinbazan.github.i...
Brand-new WBER paper shows brief role-model intervention for girls interested in STEM in Peru ⬆️ interest in engineering, application + enrollment in engineering programs, primarily for girls w/ high math scores. Joint w/ @MarcosAgurtoA @Sudiptahere
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One published paper explores the selection of counties for pilot programs in China + finds that counties with some past connections to central committee members (as send-down destinations) are more likely to be selected as pilot counties
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @MuchinBazan who works on topics related to education, gender, and development
even in the hardest places.
Brief 1: CDD and Infrastructure & Services → cgspace.cgiar.org/it...
Brief 2: CDD and Governance & Collective Action →
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#CDD #EvidenceBased #GlobalDevelopment #CommunityDriven #Econtwitter #Econsky
Excited to share 2 new evidence briefs on community-driven development @IFPRI @SparkMicrogrants. At a moment when development resources are scarce, evidence suggests CDD can deliver durable infrastructure, strengthen governance, + build enduring community institutions. . .
