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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Welcome Back Picnic @udelaware.bsky.social economics faculty, staff, PhD students, and families! Great to see everyone!

Picture of UD students, faculty, staff and families outside.

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 8d

New @wsj.com college ranking puts University of Delaware @udelaware.bsky.social at #38!

(Rumor* has it that it's due to the stellar economics department)

(* I started that rumor, just now, but we are stellar)

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Paolo Falco @paolofalco.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨

Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow.

Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀!

#EconSky

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 12d

Good morning #UMinnesota! Excited to present my paper on the long run and intergenerational effects of a Chilean CCT!

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Aug 29

Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence!

The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).

If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter

Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

docs.google.com

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · Aug 28

The @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth Ocean and Environment is hiring a Department Chair of Geography.

Possibility to be joint appointment with Public Policy (with me) & be part of an institution with a super nifty economics department (chaired by me).

careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

University of Delaware - Details - Chair, Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment University of Delaware

careers.udel.edu

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 28

I am proud to join multiple Nobel laureates and hundreds of colleagues in signing this letter to protest the US Administration's illegal seizure of control at our central bank.

Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Aug 27

The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · Aug 15

On the (almost) 105th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in the US, women are
* 51% of population
* 29% of House of Representatives
* 26% of Senate
* 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments

Line chart titled "Figure 1. Pipeline for Departments with Doctoral Programs: Percent of Doctoral Students and Faculty Who are Women, 1994-2024" The "Full Professors (T)", green line, was about 7% in 1994 and 18% in 2024.

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Caitlin Myers @caitlinmyers.bsky.social · Aug 8

Any economists out there who might be interested in writing about choosing a childfree life? I'm editing an upcoming CSWEP newsletter on fertility choices and hoping to include this perspective. Shoot me a message if you might be my person!

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Anne Fitzpatrick @annefitz13.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you’re at #aaea today, come see our track session at 10am in Plaza Court 2

I’m presenting work joint with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg on the impacts of an intervention designed to reach out of school girls in Pakistan

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 20

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.

When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Jun 11

Impressive, long-term impacts of targeted cash transfers for indigenous children in Chile

Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 20

New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.

Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798

screen shot from NBER website that contains paper title, authors, and abstract: Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile
Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan & David Torres Irribarra

Working Paper 33798
DOI 10.3386/w33798
Issue Date May 2025

Since 1991, Chile has provided large, renewable cash grants to indigenous children in lower-income households, conditional on school enrollment. We estimate intent-to-treat effects of grant exposure on indigenous adults and their children, leveraging variation in expected grant exposure across birth cohorts and never-treated adults, and using fixed effects to absorb unobserved variables shared by adults born in the same year and community. Cohorts with the greatest exposure had 0.6 more years of schooling, 10% more hours worked, and 22% higher labor earnings, reducing pre-treatment ethnic differences. Mothers’ exposure increased their children’s early-grade test scores and reduced second-generation grant receipt.

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 23

Great team representing Economics at this morning’s @udelaware.bsky.social Lerner College convocation! #JorgeSoares #ValMichelman #LizBayley @bartonwillage.com #HansHolter #NishaChikhale #ErinYetter #KatyBender Congratulations to all the Econ undergraduates!!

8 members of the UD economics faculty sit in their academic robes in front of graduating seniors in blue caps and gowns.

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations Dr. #JasonChristie! @udelaware.bsky.social latest economics PhD graduate.

Picture of Adrienne Lucas, Jason Christie, Dean Oliver Yao at UD convocation ceremony. They are all wearing academic robes—Brown, UD, and Maryland.

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 20

Local primary day in PA--be sure to vote! Or tell someone who lives in PA to vote!

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 20

New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.

Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798

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NBER @nber.org · May 20

Educational conditional cash transfers to indigenous students increased education, adult earnings, and human capital of the subsequent generation, from Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan, and David Torres Irribarra https://www.nber.org/papers/w33798

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 16

On reading day, graduate students present their research, and we honor outstanding faculty by putting their faces on cake— @bartonwillage.com #ThomasBridges #OlgaGorbachev. Best day of the academic year!

White sheet cake with pictures of Barton, Thomas, and Olga.

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 16

Honored to be part of the Advisory Board Meeting of the Tanzania Institute of Education EdLab in February. Thank you @wwhglobaled.bsky.social for featuring the meeting in today's email blast!

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 15

Good morning DC! Great day yesterday presenting at the World Bank (thank you for the invitation #LelysDinarteDiaz !) Today, Georgetown to collaborate with @jacobuscilliers.bsky.social & #JamesHabyarimana

Washington monument around sunrise with grass in foreground and clouds above.

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · May 14

Hello friends of @udelaware.bsky.social Economics Department: today is I heart UD giving day. Please consider a donation to your favorite economics department (us, of course) givingday.udel.edu/amb/economics

I Heart UD Giving Day - May 14

givingday.udel.edu

Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · Apr 9

My dog has some thoughts.

Brown and white dog on green grass, looking to the side.

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · Apr 9

Interesting! What term do you like better?

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Apr 9

A remedial education program in India worked well when teachers were given strict implementation guidelines. It worked just as well when teachers had discretion to adapt. www.nber.org/papers/w33242 by Beg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, @jkerwin.bsky.social, @profalucas.bsky.social, & @kwrahman.com

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Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · Apr 6

Welcome to #EconSky Alumudena Sevilla @almudenasevilla.bsky.social!!

Give her a follow for labor, gender, and general economist awesomeness!

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