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We conduct independent research into significant challenges to the economy, society and the welfare state in a global world. Find more information on rfberlin.com.
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke & Atheendar Venkataramani document large long-run economic gains from medical innovation and show that opportunities shape these effects over time.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke & Atheendar Venkataramani document large long-run economic gains from medical innovation and show that opportunities shape these effects over time.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Torben Andersen, Anne Katrine Borgbjerg & Jonas Maibom show that pension wealth and eligibility incentives strongly affect retirement timing.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Torben Andersen, Anne Katrine Borgbjerg & Jonas Maibom show that pension wealth and eligibility incentives strongly affect retirement timing.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Giacomo Anastasia, Tito Boeri & Oleksandr Zholud analyze Ukraine and show how war reshapes employment, wages and mobility as firms and workers adjust under conflict.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Giacomo Anastasia, Tito Boeri & Oleksandr Zholud analyze Ukraine and show how war reshapes employment, wages and mobility as firms and workers adjust under conflict.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @jessebruhn.bsky.social, Christopher Campos, Eric Chyn & Anh Tran find that remote schooling generates strong self-selection and match effects, with students benefiting unevenly.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! @jessebruhn.bsky.social, Christopher Campos, Eric Chyn & Anh Tran find that remote schooling generates strong self-selection and match effects, with students benefiting unevenly.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Christopher Campos uses experimental evidence from Los Angeles to show how peer information and social networks shape school preferences and enrollment.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Christopher Campos uses experimental evidence from Los Angeles to show how peer information and social networks shape school preferences and enrollment.
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Only two days left to submit your work for the RFBerlin Conference "Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers"
📍 Berlin | 16–17 April 2026
#CallForPapers #Academia #Health #Economics #Econ
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Only two days left to submit your work for the RFBerlin Conference "Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers"
📍 Berlin | 16–17 April 2026
#CallForPapers #Academia #Health #Economics #Econ
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 AM
⏰ Call for Papers closing soon
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Only two days left to submit your work for the RFBerlin Conference "Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers"
📍 Berlin | 16–17 April 2026
#CallForPapers #Academia #Health #Economics #Econ
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Only two days left to submit your work for the RFBerlin Conference "Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers"
📍 Berlin | 16–17 April 2026
#CallForPapers #Academia #Health #Economics #Econ
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mika Akesaka & @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social find that seasonal allergies increase traffic accidents and workplace injuries, illustrating how health shocks generate broader externalities.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:34 AM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mika Akesaka & @hitoshishigeoka.bsky.social find that seasonal allergies increase traffic accidents and workplace injuries, illustrating how health shocks generate broader externalities.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Horng Chern Wong, @dennisnovy.bsky.social, Carlo Perroni & Natalie Chen show how rapid urban structural change affected the urban\city divide by boosting city amenities and containing wages for superstar urban service firms.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Horng Chern Wong, @dennisnovy.bsky.social, Carlo Perroni & Natalie Chen show how rapid urban structural change affected the urban\city divide by boosting city amenities and containing wages for superstar urban service firms.
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(1/5) 🧠 RFBerlin Research Insights: New research by Becker, Dustmann & Ku — "The Virtuous Cycle Between Skills and Technology" — reveals how the steam engine, the AI of the 19th century, created regional economic gaps that persist 150 years later. www.rfberlin.com/research-ins...
From Steam Power to Artificial Intelligence: What the Past Can Teach Us About the Future of Work
Regional inequalities remain a central issue in public and policy debates. Where do such disparities originate? And what policies can reduce them? A new study traces these inequalities back to the int...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
(1/5) 🧠 RFBerlin Research Insights: New research by Becker, Dustmann & Ku — "The Virtuous Cycle Between Skills and Technology" — reveals how the steam engine, the AI of the 19th century, created regional economic gaps that persist 150 years later. www.rfberlin.com/research-ins...
Applied PhD students in labor & data-heavy economics: this is for you.
A two-day intensive masterclass on Tasks, Technology, and Labor Demand with Fredric Kong (MIT) co coauthor with Acemoglu & Restrepo.
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A two-day intensive masterclass on Tasks, Technology, and Labor Demand with Fredric Kong (MIT) co coauthor with Acemoglu & Restrepo.
👉 Apply now: form.typeform.com/to/Wv6YAAXU
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"Tasks At Work: Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand" by Fredric Kong
We are continuing the RFBerlin Masterclass Series, based on the Handbook of Labour Economics. In this series we invite contributed authors of handbook chapters to Berlin for in-depth, two-day teaching...
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January 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Applied PhD students in labor & data-heavy economics: this is for you.
A two-day intensive masterclass on Tasks, Technology, and Labor Demand with Fredric Kong (MIT) co coauthor with Acemoglu & Restrepo.
👉 Apply now: form.typeform.com/to/Wv6YAAXU
🔗 Event details: www.rfberlin.com/event/master...
A two-day intensive masterclass on Tasks, Technology, and Labor Demand with Fredric Kong (MIT) co coauthor with Acemoglu & Restrepo.
👉 Apply now: form.typeform.com/to/Wv6YAAXU
🔗 Event details: www.rfberlin.com/event/master...
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Christopher Campos, Jesse Bruhn, Eric Chyn & @antoniavazquez.bsky.social show that school choice system design shapes both who opts in and who benefits, with important implications for equity and access.
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January 15, 2026 at 1:20 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Christopher Campos, Jesse Bruhn, Eric Chyn & @antoniavazquez.bsky.social show that school choice system design shapes both who opts in and who benefits, with important implications for equity and access.
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Life-cycle Effects of Public Childcare
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mikko Silliman & Juuso Mäkinen study Finland’s childcare expansion and find long-run gains for children and improved labor outcomes for parents, highlighting sizable intergenerational returns.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mikko Silliman & Juuso Mäkinen study Finland’s childcare expansion and find long-run gains for children and improved labor outcomes for parents, highlighting sizable intergenerational returns.
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January 15, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Life-cycle Effects of Public Childcare
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mikko Silliman & Juuso Mäkinen study Finland’s childcare expansion and find long-run gains for children and improved labor outcomes for parents, highlighting sizable intergenerational returns.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper! Mikko Silliman & Juuso Mäkinen study Finland’s childcare expansion and find long-run gains for children and improved labor outcomes for parents, highlighting sizable intergenerational returns.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Oded Galor & Daniel C. Wainstock provide a comprehensive anatomy of US inequality, tracing its structural roots and long-run economic consequences.
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Oded Galor & Daniel C. Wainstock provide a comprehensive anatomy of US inequality, tracing its structural roots and long-run economic consequences.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:53 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Oded Galor & Daniel C. Wainstock provide a comprehensive anatomy of US inequality, tracing its structural roots and long-run economic consequences.
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Oded Galor & Daniel C. Wainstock provide a comprehensive anatomy of US inequality, tracing its structural roots and long-run economic consequences.
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If you work at the intersection of health and economics, this is for you!
Call for Papers is open for the conference “Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers”
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#CallForPapers #HealthEconomics #ResearchConference
Call for Papers is open for the conference “Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers”
👉 Submit here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80349...
#CallForPapers #HealthEconomics #ResearchConference
January 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
If you work at the intersection of health and economics, this is for you!
Call for Papers is open for the conference “Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers”
👉 Submit here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80349...
#CallForPapers #HealthEconomics #ResearchConference
Call for Papers is open for the conference “Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence, Policy, and Frontiers”
👉 Submit here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80349...
#CallForPapers #HealthEconomics #ResearchConference
⏰ Deadline approaching! Submit your work to the RFBerlin Conference on Health and Economic Well-Being.
📢📄🩺 RFBerlin invites submissions for the upcoming conference on Health and Economic Well-Being.
Submit your work now and share this call with colleagues.
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#CFP #PublicHealth
Submit your work now and share this call with colleagues.
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January 14, 2026 at 8:47 AM
⏰ Deadline approaching! Submit your work to the RFBerlin Conference on Health and Economic Well-Being.
⏰ Deadline approaching! Submit a paper or express interest in attending the 2026 RFBerlin–CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics.
📢2 weeks left! #CallforPapers - RFBerlin-CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2026
Submit a paper or express interest in attending the 2026 @rfberlin.bsky.social - CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics.
Deadline: 31 Jan
Organisers: Hyejin Ku & Jérôme Adda
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Submit a paper or express interest in attending the 2026 @rfberlin.bsky.social - CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics.
Deadline: 31 Jan
Organisers: Hyejin Ku & Jérôme Adda
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January 14, 2026 at 8:47 AM
⏰ Deadline approaching! Submit a paper or express interest in attending the 2026 RFBerlin–CEPR Annual Symposium in Labour Economics.
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Francine Blau, Isaac Cohen, Matthew Comey, Lawrence Kahn & Nikolai Boboshko study how minimum wage policies affect inequality between demographic groups, highlighting distributional trade-offs.
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Francine Blau, Isaac Cohen, Matthew Comey, Lawrence Kahn & Nikolai Boboshko study how minimum wage policies affect inequality between demographic groups, highlighting distributional trade-offs.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:16 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Francine Blau, Isaac Cohen, Matthew Comey, Lawrence Kahn & Nikolai Boboshko study how minimum wage policies affect inequality between demographic groups, highlighting distributional trade-offs.
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Francine Blau, Isaac Cohen, Matthew Comey, Lawrence Kahn & Nikolai Boboshko study how minimum wage policies affect inequality between demographic groups, highlighting distributional trade-offs.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Sebastiano Della Lena, Luca Paolo Merlino & @yveszenou.bsky.social analyze how media outlets and social interactions fuel affective polarization, shaping opinion dynamics and political divisions.
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Sebastiano Della Lena, Luca Paolo Merlino & @yveszenou.bsky.social analyze how media outlets and social interactions fuel affective polarization, shaping opinion dynamics and political divisions.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Sebastiano Della Lena, Luca Paolo Merlino & @yveszenou.bsky.social analyze how media outlets and social interactions fuel affective polarization, shaping opinion dynamics and political divisions.
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Sebastiano Della Lena, Luca Paolo Merlino & @yveszenou.bsky.social analyze how media outlets and social interactions fuel affective polarization, shaping opinion dynamics and political divisions.
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If you’re a bachelor, master, or PhD student in economics, statistics, or data science, this is for you.
RFBerlin is looking for a Research Assistant to work on real labour-economics research.
⏰ Just three days left.
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#EconJobs #ResearchAssistant #DataJobs
RFBerlin is looking for a Research Assistant to work on real labour-economics research.
⏰ Just three days left.
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#EconJobs #ResearchAssistant #DataJobs
January 8, 2026 at 11:07 AM
If you’re a bachelor, master, or PhD student in economics, statistics, or data science, this is for you.
RFBerlin is looking for a Research Assistant to work on real labour-economics research.
⏰ Just three days left.
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#EconJobs #ResearchAssistant #DataJobs
RFBerlin is looking for a Research Assistant to work on real labour-economics research.
⏰ Just three days left.
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#EconJobs #ResearchAssistant #DataJobs
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Nicolas de Roux, Eric Verhoogen, Mario Bernasconi & Patrick Farrell study how supply-chains relationships shape quality and incomes, with an application on Colombian Coffee.
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Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Nicolas de Roux, Eric Verhoogen, Mario Bernasconi & Patrick Farrell study how supply-chains relationships shape quality and incomes, with an application on Colombian Coffee.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:19 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Nicolas de Roux, Eric Verhoogen, Mario Bernasconi & Patrick Farrell study how supply-chains relationships shape quality and incomes, with an application on Colombian Coffee.
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Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Nicolas de Roux, Eric Verhoogen, Mario Bernasconi & Patrick Farrell study how supply-chains relationships shape quality and incomes, with an application on Colombian Coffee.
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📢📄🩺 Less than 10 days left! Submit your work to the RFBerlin Conference on Health and Economic Well-Being.
Submit now: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80349...
#CallForPapers #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
Submit now: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80349...
#CallForPapers #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
January 7, 2026 at 9:42 AM
📢📄🩺 Less than 10 days left! Submit your work to the RFBerlin Conference on Health and Economic Well-Being.
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#CallForPapers #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
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#CallForPapers #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
@bilgeerten.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @ericverhoogen.bsky.social analyze the employment impacts of the CHIPS Act, examining how industrial policy shapes job creation and labor-market adjustment.
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@bilgeerten.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @ericverhoogen.bsky.social analyze the employment impacts of the CHIPS Act, examining how industrial policy shapes job creation and labor-market adjustment.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:49 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
@bilgeerten.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @ericverhoogen.bsky.social analyze the employment impacts of the CHIPS Act, examining how industrial policy shapes job creation and labor-market adjustment.
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@bilgeerten.bsky.social, @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & @ericverhoogen.bsky.social analyze the employment impacts of the CHIPS Act, examining how industrial policy shapes job creation and labor-market adjustment.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
@massimo-anelli.bsky.social, Paolo Pinotti & Zachary Porreca link historical Italian migration patterns to the rise of the American Mafia, shedding light on the origins of organized crime in the US.
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@massimo-anelli.bsky.social, Paolo Pinotti & Zachary Porreca link historical Italian migration patterns to the rise of the American Mafia, shedding light on the origins of organized crime in the US.
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January 5, 2026 at 5:46 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
@massimo-anelli.bsky.social, Paolo Pinotti & Zachary Porreca link historical Italian migration patterns to the rise of the American Mafia, shedding light on the origins of organized crime in the US.
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@massimo-anelli.bsky.social, Paolo Pinotti & Zachary Porreca link historical Italian migration patterns to the rise of the American Mafia, shedding light on the origins of organized crime in the US.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington & Amanda Pallais show how physical proximity to coworkers shapes productivity, learning, and collaboration inside firms.
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Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington & Amanda Pallais show how physical proximity to coworkers shapes productivity, learning, and collaboration inside firms.
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January 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington & Amanda Pallais show how physical proximity to coworkers shapes productivity, learning, and collaboration inside firms.
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Natalia Emanuel, Emma Harrington & Amanda Pallais show how physical proximity to coworkers shapes productivity, learning, and collaboration inside firms.
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Caitlin Brown & @dennitommasi.bsky.social examine quality upgrading in street food markets, asking whether better equipment and training alone are enough to improve outcomes for vendors and consumers.
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Caitlin Brown & @dennitommasi.bsky.social examine quality upgrading in street food markets, asking whether better equipment and training alone are enough to improve outcomes for vendors and consumers.
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December 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper!
Caitlin Brown & @dennitommasi.bsky.social examine quality upgrading in street food markets, asking whether better equipment and training alone are enough to improve outcomes for vendors and consumers.
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Caitlin Brown & @dennitommasi.bsky.social examine quality upgrading in street food markets, asking whether better equipment and training alone are enough to improve outcomes for vendors and consumers.
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