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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 14d

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eayeconomists.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social · 17d

Submit your paper 👉 cmt3.research.microsoft.com/EAYEAM2026

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The European Association of Young Economists (EAYE) is an association run by young economists for young economists. The association's main objective is to foster interactions between young researchers...

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 16d

💡 Policy recommendations
• Framing matters. Emotional framing can backfire
• Campaigns should target recipients’ educational background
• Monitoring engagement with materials (e.g., during school meetings) can help
• Too many non-targeted campaigns can exhaust parents’ attention

Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 16d

⚠️ We also find that self-reported vaccination status instead of administrative records, if anything, leads to underestimating true causal effects on uptake. Good news for research settings where admin records are not available

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 16d

⚙️ Mechanisms
Positive (negative) effects driven by mothers who engaged more (less) with our leaflets and displayed less (more) vaccine skepticism at baseline

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 16d

📚 Education drives differences in uptake response
• Compulsory education: scientific framing increases uptake by 5.7 percentage points (7.25%)
• High school diploma: emotional framing decreases uptake by 4.8 percentage points (5.41%)

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 16d

Leaflets debunk misinformation, explaining the consequences of catching HPV:
• 🧪 Scientific framing uses medical and statistical jargon
• 💔 Emotional framing uses testimonies of local survivors of HPV-caused cancers
A third control leaflet contains a reminder and no framed information

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 16d

📊 Random sampling from the population and administrative vaccination records ➡️ no attrition nor survey biases in our primary analysis

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 16d

🔍 We studied how the framing of info on the HPV vaccine – emotional or scientific – affects the HPV vaccine uptake across different education levels:
7616 mothers from Stockholm county, Sweden, in 4 educational strata, received a leaflet at home, imitating governmental campaigns

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to share that my paper “Targeting Vaccine Information Framing to Recipients’ Education”, with Lisen A. Dahlström from Karolinska and the Public Health Agency of Sweden, has been published in Health Economics 🧵👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Targeting Vaccine Information Framing to Recipients' Education: A Randomized Trial

We study the effect of framing informational campaigns scientifically or emotionally on the vaccination uptake of recipients with different educational backgrounds. 7616 Swedish mothers stratified by...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Sep 6

I couldn't not share this. I am so grateful for my Ph.D. time at the @eui-eu.bsky.social

foglioeuropeo.ilfoglio.it/leuropa-ha-b...

L’Europa ha bisogno della sua università più che mai – Il Foglio Europeo

foglioeuropeo.ilfoglio.it

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Jan 28

I had very similar thoughts this morning, then I went on to think about how this will work with the current for-profit and highly concentrated publishing industry. Sure, most is done by academics, but given how unpredictable everything has become, I sense possible dangers for free research.

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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · Jan 23

The first day was a blast, started with a large scale RCT by Alice Dominici and ended with dinner at the mercato delle erbe and a drink at Pratello.

Let's see what tomorrow brings!

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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · Jan 23

Herb2025 in Bologna has started!
Alice Dominici presents on gentle communication and vaccine hesitancy #healtheconomics #econsky

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Jan 3

IMT Lucca, Italy, offers a fully funded program in neuroscience and for what I know there’s quite a few people working on neuromodulation. The application process is a bit delayed so there’s time until summer

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Jan 3

Hi! Could you also add me? Thanks 🙏

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Cathrin Mohr @cathrinmohr.bsky.social · Dec 12

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Historical Political Economy - Insights from Europe

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Dec 12

Ahah same!

Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Dec 12

Yep, definitely! But surely entertaining and worth following, I’m actually surprised it hasn’t been discussed more given the political implications

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Dec 11

Wow wow wow

Marc Sabatier Hvidkjær @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social · Dec 11

In flown over news this week: the house committee on oversight and accountability confirming the lab leak hypothesis

The language is political, but pretty incredible that nobody really seems to care
oversight.house.gov/release/fina...

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is all in favor of your point, btw!

Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Dec 11

I suppose this is the preach? Of course, they were far from being as secular as now, religion and faith permeated lives and society. I am just saying that compared to later periods, they did not suffocate personal (especially female!) expression as much, e.g.: chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/fabliaux

Fabliaux | Harvard's Geoffrey Chaucer Website

chaucer.fas.harvard.edu

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Dec 11

Contrary to common beliefs, medieval societies (esp 13th cent) were very informal and open in many aspects, including sexuality. Much of Middle Age stereotypes are actually 15th cent. and later (especially about religious strictness which increased sharply after the Reformation). So yes, fun stuff!

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Dec 2

Hi Magnus, could you please add me? 🙏

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · Nov 30

Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks

Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Nov 27

The December 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 12) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/785.

American Economic Review

Vol. 114 No. 12 December 2024

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Nov 30

Hi, can you please add me? 🙏

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Alice Dominici @alicedominici.bsky.social · Nov 22

Yep! I have been contacted in private as well, reported it!

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