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Why do households often prefer men—not women—to take paid jobs, even when women could earn more?

A new paper by James Allen & colleagues uses experimental survey evidence to measure gendered work norms in #Egypt.

📄 hdl.handle.net/10568/178587

#IWD2026 #ForAllWomenAndGirls @cgiar.org

From yesterday's 84°F and balmy to today's 30°F and snowy, DC weather is really putting the CHANGE in climate change. 😩

When caseloads matter: Community health workers, home visits, and child survival in Mali What works best when resources are stretched?

🔍 How do community health workers (CHW) caseloads influence children’s health, and how do different approaches—home health visits vs. CHWs stationed at clinics or other fixed sites—affect those results?

Learn more in this blog by @jealleniv.bsky.social: https://on.cgiar.org/4r2alvD

@cgiar.org

a woman in a green shirt and black jeans is running in front of a red background ALT: a woman in a green shirt and black jeans is running in front of a red background

Live footage of me working on paper revisions before re-submitting. #runningupthathill #econsky

Thank you for sharing this very sad news. I heard it through the grapevine and came here to confirm. So sad. I will always remember his enthusiasm in the classroom. RIP John.

Because of me, a journal submission page now says "Selected submissions are currently experiencing intermittent issues on the services page. If you encounter an error, please wait for a short period before trying to proceed."

So this is what it feels like to make a difference. 🦸

#EconSky

Technology of liberation or control? The political impacts of social media. Guest post by Alexander Fertig

In today's JMP blog, how does social media affect political conflict? Alexander Fertig uses an event study in Myanmar to show when internet freedoms were eroded, the relationship between access & political protest disappeared. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

Today's @ifpri.org Applied Micro & Development speaker is Baafra Abeberese (Wellesley College) on “Court Efficiency, Contract Enforcement and Informality" w/ Ritam Chaurey

🧑‍⚖️ Find in India that inefficient courts -> weak contract enforcement -> less incentive to formalize.

Great talk!

Community health programmes and HIV/AIDS outcomes in Mozambique A widely implemented HIV/AIDS programme inadvertently decreased HIV testing by worsening misinformation and HIV-related stigmatising attitudes, but a simple follow-up intervention offset the programme...

Both #misinformation and #stigma can be barriers for HIV testing and, our research finds, can be worsened inadvertently by community health programs. 😬

Check out @voxdev.bsky.social article on my research joint w/ @deanyang.bsky.social & others:
voxdev.org/topic/health...

#WorldAIDSDay2025

Poverty increases the risk of IPV. Cash transfers can help change that.

For #IDEVAW, we’re spotlighting IFPRI’s research on leveraging cash transfers to reduce violence against women — part of our #IFPRI50Innovations series.

🔗 www.cash-ipv.org

@cgiar.org @lshtm.bsky.social @unicef.org

All in together? How communities contribute to school meals programs The dynamics of cooperation.

🆕 paper & blog joint w/ @nkarachiwalla.bsky.social & @meanregressive.bsky.social!

🤝When asked to support a school meals program, many households reduced contributions as others gave more—opposite of findings from high-income labs.

WP: hdl.handle.net/10568/176850
Blog: www.ifpri.org/blog/all-in-...

All in together? How communities contribute to school meals programs The dynamics of cooperation.

🆕 #Blog All in together? How communities contribute to school meals programs

🖋️ By James Allen IV, Naureen Karachiwalla, and Deboleena Rakshit.

🖱️ Read more: https://on.cgiar.org/3XKyEBg

@cgiar.org

Bailey Palmer:
Website: baileypalmer.github.io
JMP: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ofuye...

Bailey Palmer (UC Berkeley) combines women’s worker productivity data and WTP for childcare, transportation and preferred pay schemes to show that such amenities attract lower-productivity applicants, but offering contract choice can raise employment, welfare, and firm profit.

@amenjalal.bsky.social:
Website: amenjalal.com
JMP: amenjalal.com/docs/Jalal_S...

@amenjalal.bsky.social (LSE) analyzes millions of job applications in Pakistan and documents that high-paying firms often omit salaries in ads driving women to apply elsewhere, but a field experiment finds that mandating transparent posting of salary sharply boosts women’s job applications.

Xuan Li:
Webiste: www.xuan-li.net/research
Paper (not JMP): edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai25-1220.pdf

Xuan Li (Boston Univ), not his JMP but still JM candidate, leverages China’s randomized exam-center assignments to show that off-site testing lowers scores and college admission rates, primarily due to unfamiliar environments, widening gaps for disadvantaged students.

@ivankimt.bsky.social:
Website: ivankimtaveras.github.io
JMP: ivankimtaveras.github.io/docs/papers/...

@ivankimt.bsky.social (Bocconi) uses micro-data from six African countries to show that delayed or false rainy-season onsets cut yields and consumption, disproportionately hurt vulnerable farmers, and highlight the value of better short-range weather forecasts.

Molly J. Doruska Hello! I am a PhD candidate at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. I am on the 2025-2026 job market. My research interests lie at the intersection of environ...

Molly Doruska
Website: www.mollydoruska.com,
JMP: mdoruska.github.io/files/MJD_JMP_Flooding_Firm_Investment.pdf

Molly Doruska (Cornell) studies small firms in flood-prone Dakar using an RCT and finds that vouchers spur defensive investments, but that only group coordination reduces flood losses for the average firm, as uncoordinated individual-firm investments generate harmful spillovers!

Wow, several incredible Econ Job Market Papers presented at NEUDC 2025! Here are few that stood out (in the order I saw them). Quick summaries below with websites/JMP links. 🧵👇

Has anyone been ghosted by a journal help desk? We were corresponding after I faced three technical errors during submission, but I haven't heard back in 2 weeks. It's a Taylor & Francis non-predatory journal, I'm quite surprised.

Just trying to #GetYourManuscriptOut!

💡50 Years of Innovation to Support Evolving Food Systems🌱

Today, on #WorldDiabetesDay, we feature our research which introduced the notion of the double burden of malnutrition 🌱🤝📢

🔗Learn more: hdl.handle.net/10568/174305

@cgiar.org @adb.org @thelancet.com @who.int #IFPRI50 #IFPRI50Innovations

Great paper! Measuring literal spillovers... diverted floodwater from treated firms building concrete flood barriers to others nearby downhill. But these negative spillovers can be addressed by community meetings to enable collective action.

Good morning #NEUDC2025!

Looking forward to learning a lot today!

Wishing everyone safe (un-cancelled) flights to #NEUDC2025!

If you make it, check out Block 4, Session 19: "Information, Governance and Public Service Delivery" w/ myself, @wsandholtz.bsky.social @AditiSingh095 @saritaoreq

#NEUDC

Le Rossignol, Etienne, Sara Lowes, and Eduardo Montero. Fallow lengths and the structure of property rights. No. w32226. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024.

emontero23.github.io/emwebsite/fallowing_property_rights.pdf