Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls (Forthcoming Article) - We evaluate the effects of teaching negotiation skills to adolescent girls in economically vulnerable communities in Lusaka, Zambia ten years later. Treated participants complete 0.23 more years of education. Consistent with greater relational empowerment, they also begin sexual activity later, have smaller age gaps with their husbands, and express less traditional gender attitudes. Using a surrogate approach, social benefits and costs from increased education alone suggest the intervention generated 7.6 dollars for every dollar spent and had a very high marginal value of public funds of 10.5.

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls" by Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Xiaoyue Shan.

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Under the headline Inequality and Taxation, FinanzArchiv/European Journal of Public Finance and the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance invite submissions for a conference to be held on 27–28 October 2026 in Berlin.

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BTW, nominal growth projected around 4% in Canada in 2026.

So, nominal growth > interest rate on debt. That's a key inequality for public finances, as deficits become easier to sustain while debt/GDP falls.

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Christopher Sims, RIP.

A giant of macroeconomics has left us.

Here is his homepage:
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Anyone know of a paper that actually tries to make use of medical expense claims from the LAD, or documents who claims it? (I am searching and failing, and I don't know why. I'm sure I've seen this done.)

Uninsured idiosyncratic risk and aggregate saving
by S. Rao Aiyagari (1993)

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