We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

🆕 Demand for ‘safe space’: How women-only transit cars reduced harassment while reinforcing harmful gender norms in Brazil

@fkondylis.bsky.social (World Bank), Arianna Legovini, @katevyborny.bsky.social‬, Astrid Zwager & Luiza Andrade (@devinnovationlab.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/infras...

📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social):

👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries

Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience

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A 🧵 1/9

@jisteinert.bsky.social, Andreas Landmann, and I are organizing a Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics in July! Goal is to strengthen the regional network among PhD students in Bavaria who work on DevEcon. Please spread the word and apply/drop by! :) Deadline May 4.
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Ever look around at your friends/colleagues/neighbors all having kids at the same time as you + feel like you should do what they do? Fascinating new paper in AEJ-App shows us that you're not alone, + those peer influences matter! @BarbaraBoelmann #econtwitter #econsky

In addition to being morally wrong this is also just plain old wrong as shown by research by @kevinshih.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Out today in World Development Perspectives: Our paper on #ethics & #equity failures faced by research staff collecting data in LMIC contexts
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@tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social

What can you do about the assault on USAID?

Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Holy forking shirt balls

"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

Today's #econjmp by @rollykapoor.bsky.social is an RCT with women seeking jobs in Delhi. Matching them with other job-searching women and coordinating interview times makes them much more likely to show up for an interview & job-seeking together then persists blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

I am on the #EconJobMarket !
🚨 JMP Alert 🚨

Individuals fail to incorporate information held by their spouses. Is it because they are generally reluctant to learn from their spouse?

In my #JMP, I show: NO! It's because communication is challenging in the absence of expertise.

🧵below:

Excited to share my #JMP!🎉

"Do NGOs Matter for Development? Evidence from Pakistan"

NGOs often fill gaps left by limited public spending on health, education, etc.📚🏥But do NGOs truly move the needle on development? Let’s dive in!👇🧵[/10]

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