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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 22d

✨Thrilled to kick off the seminar season 25/26 w/ a keynote at the U of Trento -Workshop on Socio-Emotional Skills!

Spoke on:
📊Measuring children’s socio-emotional skills
💡New tools
🤖AI for scale & new frontiers

Tx++ to organizers @danipiazz.bsky.social @lucapiccoli.bsky.social L Mangiavacchi 🙌🏻

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Fatima Najeeb @fnajeeb.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thanks so much ‪@gabriconti.bsky.social‬! Very excited to start this new chapter 😄

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Aug 4

📢I am v happy to share that Fatima Najeeb has joined the G-Lab @ucleconomics.bsky.social as Research Fellow from @univofmaryland.bsky.social!

🔴She will work w/ me & E. Del Bono ‪on the @nuffieldfoundation.org project "#Menopause, #HRT & Women Well-Being"

Warm Welcome @fnajeeb.bsky.social! 🥳

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 27

Delighted to be on the Scientific Committee for the 2025 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society #EWMES
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
📅 Dec 7–9, 2025

🌱 A key platform for ECRs across econometrics, macro, micro, theory & more.

📝 Submit by Sept 7
🔗: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...

2025 European Winter Meeting, Nicosia, Cyprus - The Econometric Society

We are delighted to announce that the European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be...

www.econometricsociety.org

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Jul 27

#EconConf

Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 27

Delighted to be on the Scientific Committee for the 2025 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society #EWMES
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
📅 Dec 7–9, 2025

🌱 A key platform for ECRs across econometrics, macro, micro, theory & more.

📝 Submit by Sept 7
🔗: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...

2025 European Winter Meeting, Nicosia, Cyprus - The Econometric Society

We are delighted to announce that the European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society will be...

www.econometricsociety.org

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 26

Delighted to be part of the Scientific Committee for the #CAF-WELAC (LACEA) Workshop on #Gender, #Households & #Inequality (Dec 16–17, Buenos Aires).

📍 Amazing speakers confirmed—submit your paper by Aug 3!
👉🏻 www.caf.com/media/467715...

#CallForPapers

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 24

And that’s a wrap on #IHEA2025 from Bali! 🇮🇩

Busy & productive as always—reconnecting w/ co-authors and brainstorming ideas w/ potential new ones! 🌟

Great to be here w/ @ucl.ac.uk #HEPL #Health #Economics #Policy #Lab crew + fab women & health economists Ana Balsa & Stefi Schurer ✨

#WomenInEcon

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 23

Well done to all the presenters, such an interesting session! 🙌🏻
#IHEA2025

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 23

Good morning! Interested in sexual and reproductive health? Then join us in Denpasar 2!👇🏻#IHEA2025

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 22

Done here w/ 3 presentations this morning at #IHEA2025 in Bali!

Below with session 1 moderator Bernard Moscoso and moderator & presenter of session 2 Nicole Black & Adam Akmal Dzulkipli @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Two interesting and engaging sessions - now enjoying the rest of the conference💥

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 22

🗣️ And now starting in Bougainville 1 for a special session on economic costs, prevention, and consequences of #child #maltreatment 👇🏻 #IHEA2025

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 22

Double duties for me at #IHEA2025 this morning!

We are soon starting the session “#Food and #Nutrition” in Surabaya (2nd floor BICC)!

I will present on changes in nutrition in pregnancy and adherence to the #NHS #guidelines👇🏻

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 19

As we move ‘from sickness to prevention and hospital to community’ (#NHS 10Y Plan) & #DfE strategy calls to strengthen health visiting + build on SureStart to deliver Best Start Family Hubs-
Our work helps turn these commitments into action #ResearchToPolicy💪🏼

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 19

We also drew lessons from recent work:

📌 Sure Start — long-run improvements in child outcomes and ROI
🔗 ifs.org.uk/publications...

📌 ProKind — delivery models & professional continuity matter
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🔗 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The short- and medium-term effects of Sure Start on children’s outcomes | Institute for Fiscal Studies

An evaluation of Sure Start’s impacts on education, health, absences, special educational needs, crime and social care, plus a cost–benefit analysis.

ifs.org.uk

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 19

We shared:
•Coming soon: FOI-based report on Universal Health Visiting +work on #FNP #nurse #quality
•Completing: Reanalysis of the #BuildingBlocks trial & evaluation of #StartforLife / #FamilyHubs
•Also underway: integrated evaluation of early years programmes

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 19

Last Wed I had the privilege to give a seminar at #DHSC (Department of Health & Social Care) on #health #visiting and #early #intervention in England, w/ my excellent PostDoc G Weber Costa 📍

Grateful & happy for the strong turnout and genuinely engaged, thoughtful discussion! 🙏🏻

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 18

Such a good and useful piece! I was really happy to be part of the Expert Advisory Group 👏🏻

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 18

Super useful
Piece!! 👏🏻👏🏻

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yep she was great!!

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 17

#TBT to #ESPE2025 (12–14 June) in my beautiful hometown of #Naples – the perfect setting for a truly engaging conference w/ so many of my favourite people, multiple parallel sessions and much food for thought! 💙🇮🇹

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chloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · Jul 14

Great to see you, Gabriella! Thanks for coming

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 14

Indeed, excellent choice to have @chloergibbs.bsky.social for the @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social AL!

And so nice to see our #SureStart work featured 🙌🏻
👉🏻 ifs.org.uk/publications...

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jul 13

🇬🇧A month in London-a great time to reflect & recharge. B4 things ramp up again, a quick recap of May–June

1️⃣ @cesifo.org Area Conference Labor Economics

2️⃣ @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social Applied Workshops

3️⃣ @rfberlin.bsky.social Workshop Economics of Aging

4️⃣ Workshop Economics of Risky Behavior

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jun 30

⚡️Happy that my paper on #gene X #environment interactions in #child #development (evidence from home visiting RCT in Colombia) w/
@orazioatt.bsky.social
P Jervis C Meghir
@aysuo.bsky.social
was the most downloaded WP in the
@hceconomics.bsky.social
series in May!

🧬 Thread below!👇

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jun 26

🖤 Proud to be UCL✌🏻

UCL @ucl.ac.uk · Jun 26

📢 UCL is now ranked 7th in the world and 3rd in Europe in the 2025–2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities ranking! 🌍

We’re proud to be recognised for the strength of our research and global reputation.

Learn more: www.usnews.com/education/be...

UCL campus with a red double-decker bus in front, ranked #7 in 2025-2026 Best Global Universities by US News.

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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · Jun 26

📢 UCL is now ranked 7th in the world and 3rd in Europe in the 2025–2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities ranking! 🌍

We’re proud to be recognised for the strength of our research and global reputation.

Learn more: www.usnews.com/education/be...

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NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty @repec-nep-ltv.bsky.social · Jun 18

Gene x Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia: Attanasio, Orazio; Conti, Gabriella; Jervis, Pamela; Meghir, Costas; Okbay, Aysu

NEP/RePEc link

to paper

d.repec.org

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Phil Delacote @phildelacote.bsky.social · Jun 6

La ménopause est une source importante d'inégalité salariale femmes-hommes...

Et, surprise (non), cette inégalité se renforce dans les classes sociales défavorisés, du fait de moindres capacités à se prémunir contre les symptômes de la ménopause.

Un travail de @gabriconti chroniqué par @Paulinegro

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · Jun 3

@ucleconomics.bsky.social